Tuesday, August 30, 2022
The composer ("Once Upon a Mattress"), young adult author ("Freaky Friday") and philanthropist Mary Rodgers wanted to write a memoir that was candid, cutting, dishy and vanity-free " the exa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The new musical "American Prophet" is now in the midst of its world premiere run at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Next stop: Broadway? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast belo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials " the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film " the new mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2022
After nine seasons on the hit TV series "The Blacklist," actor Amir Arison's next step is starring on Broadway in "The Kite Runner." Which is pretty surprising for a guy who'd decided he was…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2022
Playwright Matthew Spangler's adaptation of "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini's bestselling 2005 novel about the friendship of two boys living parallel lives in Afghanistan, is a heartbreak…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Most people know Jodi Picoult as the busy author of more than 25 bestselling books, including "My Sister's Keeper," "Small Great Things" and "The Pact." But more recently, she's collaborated…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2022
Before Danai Gurira returns this fall as the Wakandan general Okoye in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," she's scheming and murdering her way onto the English throne in director Robert O'Har…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2022
No one saw it coming. Reworking Goldoni's 18th-century comedy "A Servant of Two Masters" didn't look like the recipe for a transatlantic comedy smash, but that was before Richard Bean turned…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2022
The aesthetic is austere, the emotional range fiercely compressed and the intent is relentlessly pure, but that's only to be expected in Samuel Beckett's "The Seagull." Wait, what? Obviously…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
A place for everything and everything in its place. Although that maxim about neatness might apply to the intentions of the characters living in the English country vicarage in "The Southbur…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of "Hamlet," "Fat Ham," sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South " and reim…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn't have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," who could have got everyo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Audiences already know Joaquina Kalukango as an actor onstage ("Slave Play") and on screen ("One Night in Miami") " and on the most recent Tony Awards telecast, when she capped off a roof-ra…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
There's nothing like mechanical malfunction to make you want to break into song. Though that may well be unique to "Bruce" " unless you can name another musical with a spectacularly unruly p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2022
Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2022
The pool of people who vote for the Tony Awards is a small one " and this year, it's probably even smaller. As Broadway gears up for its big night June 12, the industry's annual prognosticat…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad, Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze: All of these 2022 Tony Award nominees are Broadway regulars, and they've had plenty of experience with nominations…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Landmarks on This Year's Nominations List In a Broadway season that was the first after the devastating 15-month shutdown caused by the pandemic, the Tony nominations list en…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]In a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of "Six" to the Thoughts of "A Stra…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play "How I Learned to Drive," which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nominat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM[SHARE]After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2022
When the Tony-winning musical "1776" debuted on Broadway in 1969, it celebrated America's ideals on the eve of its Bicentennial. Half a century later, a radical makeover brings critique fron…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2022
It's June 2022, and Michael R. Jackson has a lot to be proud of. His musical "A Strange Loop" leads the Broadway awards-season race with 11 Tony nominations and stands poised to net the top …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2022
With a cast headed by Amy Adams making her West End debut, you'd be forgiven for imagining the latest production of Tennessee Williams' play "The Glass Menagerie" might be everything you'd e…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2022
Jesse Williams is coming to the end of his debut Broadway gig " but he's already betting it'll be the first of many stage engagements for him. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcas…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2022
"What are you staring at? Have you never seen a murderer up close before?" Ever since her startlingly assured 2007 debut "Free Outgoing," shrewd playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar has calmly b…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical "A Strange Loop" scored 11 Tony nominations last week " and the ensemble cast of "A Strange Loop" is inviting everyone to share i…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2022
On your mark, get set, go. The race for the Tony Awards has officially begun with the announcement of the 2022 nominations on Monday. In honoring and highlighting the work in a crowded, COVI…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2022
Broadway just wrapped up its first season after the pandemic lockdown, and boy, was it a doozy: After all the delays, COVID surges and cast replacements, a whopping 35 new productions opened…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Debra Messing has only been in the Broadway play "Birthday Candles" since March, but in some ways, she feels more deeply connected to her character Ernestine than she felt to the leading rol…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2022
A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE] 
