Wednesday, August 4, 2021
As Broadway gets back to business and live performances resume around the country, the Sundance Institute has released a new study that diagnoses the state of the theater industry and imagin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, July 22, 2021
Skeptics puzzling over the logic of watching 82-year-old Ian McKellen playing student prince Hamlet need only look as far as the play’s second scene in which Hamlet rebukes his mother. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
When the Broadway production of Antoinette Nwandu’s play “Pass Over” opens on Broadway, it’ll incorporate significant changes — both on stage and behind the scenes. Listen to this …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:44PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Aleshea Harris’ “What to Send Up When It Goes Down” isn’t a traditional play, but audiences shouldn’t come away with the mistaken impression that the show — a play, a ritual, a p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43PMFriday, July 2, 2021
As the New York Theater industry pulls itself out of the COVID era, every baby step feels like a milestone. But perhaps no other reopening will carry the same symbolic weight as the return o…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMThursday, July 1, 2021
“The whole point is to combine two complementary or contrasting thoughts in the same moment. Two feelings in the same moment.” Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th century’s uncontested gen…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Who knew iniquity could feel so pulsating and immensely purifying? “Seven Deadly Sins,” New York City theater’s newest unholy outdoor experience, tests the limits of how far live theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
“We are paying you to stay awake and care.” That sounds like an admonition to the audience at the National Theatre’s new production, “Under Milk Wood.” But in fact it’s sensible …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
The enduring musical “Rent,” celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, didn’t just revolutionize Broadway. It had an impact all over the world — and the new documentary “Revoluti…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Remembrance of things past is not just a preoccupation of Proust. From King Lear’s terrifying fear of losing his mind to Pinter’s interlocked threesome in “Old Times” hotly contestin…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMTuesday, June 8, 2021
For the creators of the Tony-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights,” the new, big-budget movie version wasn’t just a chance to go big with splashy song-and-dance numbers. It was als…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Producer Sonia Friedman returns to the post-pandemic West End not with a safe revival but with a succession of brief runs for three socially-distanced world premieres by young writers, and i…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMFriday, May 28, 2021
Should we go to a Broadway show tonight, or should we stream it? That’s a question that people could be asking about more than just “Hamilton” when Broadway gets back up and running. I…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Broadway has long known that Black professionals are underrepresented backstage and in leadership positions in the commercial theater industry — but now a new initiative from a group of Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMFriday, May 21, 2021
As the U.K. begins reopening in the wake, fingers crossed, of the pandemic, the idea of the reopening the West End with a new solo show written and performed by a debuting playwright is some…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
The composer-performer Heather Christian describes her new movie “Animal Wisdom” as a “theater-concert-hybrid-séance-performance.” And maybe after months of lockdown, that’s what …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
For this smart, lockdown-era, streaming iteration of Samuel Beckett’s show about nothing — and also everything, perhaps, and electric alienation for sure — director Scott Elliott and h…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Think producing digital play readings is as simple as getting a few actors together on Zoom? Think again. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: For the starry Spotlight o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots. That could mean the lyrical “Anna in the Tropics,” the play th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
In response to the shooting in Atlanta and the rise in hate crimes it underscored, Asian American theater artists took action, organizing support and self-care programs for the Asian America…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Theater historian or gonzo journalist? Jennifer Ashley Tepper, the author of “The Untold Stories of Broadway” series of books, thinks of herself as both. “Because I put my own discover…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:08PMFriday, March 19, 2021
Nobody – literally nobody – knows when or how Broadway will reopen. But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, March 18, 2021
In recent weeks, New Yorkers might have stumbled upon a socially distanced pop-up performance by Jon Batiste at the Javits Center, or one by Patti Smith at the Brooklyn Museum. They were bot…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PMTuesday, March 16, 2021
In the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s new audio version of “Paradise Blue,” Blair Underwood gets the chance to revisit to a role he’s been wanting to get back to since he first play…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PMWednesday, March 3, 2021
The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant — the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages — isn’t exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMTuesday, March 2, 2021
Jake Gyllenhaal is nominated for three Tony Awards, one as an actor in the play “Sea Wall/A Life” and two as a producer (with his company Nine Stories) of “Sea Wall/A Life” and “Sl…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PMTuesday, February 16, 2021
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in “Mike Nichols: A Life,” the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:32PMTuesday, February 2, 2021
After winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of “12 Years a Slave” and creating the ABC series “American Crime,” John Ridley has a lot going on — from an upcoming Blumhouse pa…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PMTuesday, January 19, 2021
Teyonah Parris waited seven years between theater gigs — but she wishes she hadn’t. “That is too long!” the “WandaVision” actor declared on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,�…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PMMonday, January 11, 2021
The rat really raked it in — for a good cause. Inspired by social media and co-produced and co-created by Broadway pros including Lucy Moss (“Six”), Jeremy O. Harris (“Slave Play”)…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PMThursday, January 7, 2021
The new film “One Night in Miami” began life as a successful play — but New Yorkers might not know that, because despite accolades in Los Angeles and London, the play never got a produ…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM 
