Friday, 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 01:23PMTuesday, 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 06:00AM 
