Thursday, 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 01:23PMTuesday, December 22, 2020
Audiences won’t see Ruben Santiago-Hudson on screen in the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” but theater fans can rest assured that the writer-actor-director — …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMMonday, December 14, 2020
A Hollywood director unexpectedly pops into an English regional theater to see a show. The actors get wind of his presence, thereby unleashing a chaotic, show-stealing performance of one-upm…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PMTuesday, December 8, 2020
During its Broadway run, “The Prom” was something of a fan-favorite among theater lovers — and nobody knows that better than Ariana DeBose. She was one those fans. Listen to this week�…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PMTuesday, November 24, 2020
One of the most prominent legacy Black theaters in America is transforming itself, and it’s more than just a pandemic-era pivot. In the coming years, Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minn. �…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PMA series of immersive audioplays performed and mixed live, using tech developed by theatrical sound designers and engineers. A summer festival’s entire season of new plays and classics rel…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMFriday, November 13, 2020
Jeremy O. Harris knows exactly how big his plans are: “I think for me to call myself ambitious would be an understatement,” he acknowledged on a recent call from Rome. But the playwright…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:39PMTuesday, November 10, 2020
When the Tony-nominated actor Arian Moayed wanted to write, direct and independently produce a new episodic drama-thriller, he turned to his friends and colleagues on Broadway. And Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
After “Moulin Rouge!” on Broadway, could “Romeo + Juliet” be the next Baz Luhrmann film to get the stage treatment? Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: Maybe, a…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMThursday, October 15, 2020
Would any time be a good time for the Tony Awards this year? With the country gripped by a pandemic, a presidential election and an overdue reckoning on racial justice — and a Broadway ind…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PMWednesday, September 23, 2020
Broadway may be shuttered due to the pandemic, but Variety is keeping its annual tradition of celebrating the world of stage with a digital event, “Legit! The Road Back to Broadway,” pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, March 12, 2020
With the shutdown throwing a shadow of uncertainty over all of Broadway, the unprecedented hiatus has the potential to be particularly destabilizing for the season’s new and previewing pro…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:25PMThursday, February 13, 2020
If you’ve got a hit musical on your hands, there’s a natural order to things: First you play the West End and Broadway, then you play everywhere else. But not “Six.” By the time th…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Concord Music Group used to play a bit part in theatrical licensing, but in just three years it’s emerged as a giant in the small but powerful industry. Since 2017, the independent music…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
James Corden has spent the last week prepping to host the Tony Awards — and rehearsals keep threatening to make him cry. Listen to this week’s podcast below: “We had maybe 100 people a…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King dismantles the Asian market in this misfiring satire at London’s Royal Court Theatre. “White Pearl” makes a case that those seeking to make inroads into…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
August Wilson famously disavowed the idea of an all-black “Death of a Salesman.” In 1996, he declared any such staging “an assault on our presence and our difficult but honorable histo…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PMBroadway’s “Tootsie” has turned into one of this season’s Tony Awards frontrunners, winning raves for its deftly funny update of potentially problematic source material — and for a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Aaron Sorkin remembers treasuring a favorite scene in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and in the 1962 movie version that starred Gregory Peck. But you won’t find that scene in his h…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
The nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards were announced April 30 — and leave it to the nominators to upend everyone’s expectations and best-laid plans. Here are the nine biggest snubs an…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PMThursday, April 25, 2019
“Such a bold departure from the original source material!” wisecracks the odd-looking fellow sitting on a coffin at the start of the Broadway musical “Beetlejuice.” The weird, nasty …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Garish, lurid and brash, “Ink,” the British import now on Broadway in a Manhattan Theatre Club production, is the theatrical equivalent of its subject, the UK’s Daily Sun — the newsp…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMIf “All My Sons” is showing its age, it sure shows no signs of abating. Just days after a major revival opened on Broadway, moving Annette Bening and Tracy Letts into the Tony zone, up t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The new Broadway adaptation of “Tootsie” is old-fashioned and proud of it — and it’s a surefire crowd-pleaser, in this musical spin on the 1982 film comedy with Santino Fontana in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMMonday, April 22, 2019
Don’t be fooled by the placid backyard setting, neighborly small talk and father-son joviality at the start of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s blistering revival of Arthur Miller’s �…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSunday, April 21, 2019
Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen, two of the funniest people on the face of the earth, play street cleaners tasked with carting away the dead after the civil wars that brought down the Roman…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:08PMThursday, April 18, 2019
If anyone could play Hillary Clinton, it’s Laurie Metcalf – and here she is, in Lucas Hnath’s “Hillary and Clinton,” giving a performance that feels painfully honest and true. And …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
“Hadestown” triggered a lot of buzz when this wholly American show (which came to the stage by way of a concept album) premiered at Off Broadway’s New York Theatre Workshop in 2016. Ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
The ache for an absent artist permeates Lanford Wilson’s “Burn This,” now receiving a finely-tuned Broadway revival that features incendiary performances by Adam Driver and Keri Russel…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSuzan-Lori Parks’ new play “White Noise” tackles a host of urgent, hot-button topics, including racism and slavery — but, according to the playwright, there’s also a “dumb joke�…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMMonday, April 15, 2019
How helpful are warnings from history? Two years ago, in February 2017, Amazon briefly sold out its entire stock of Hannah Arendt’s 500-page treatise, “The Origins of Totalitarianism.”…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PM 
