Thursday, 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 02:26PMTuesday, April 9, 2019
As “Beetlejuice” gears up for its Broadway opening, the new musical’s creators have spent a lot of time adjusting the dial on the show’s raucous, supernatural comedy, pinpointing jus…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PMSunday, April 7, 2019
In Broadway’s new “Oklahoma!,” the audience is just a pounding heartbeat away from Daniel Fish’s revisionist treatment of this iconic American musical. There’s still “a bright go…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:34PMThursday, April 4, 2019
Shakespeare nailed it: “Though she be little, she is fierce.” Glenda Jackson may look frail, but the 82-year-old legend performs the noble task of rescuing director Sam Gold’s rickety …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:03PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Kids are central to the storyline of “To Kill a Mockingbird” — and for a while, child actors were going to be central to Aaron Sorkin’s new Broadway adaptation of Harper Lee’s clas…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:17PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Call it stealth theater. In the disarming introduction to her play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” Heidi Schreck holds forth in an American Legion hall in her hometown of Wenatchee,…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:10PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Both onstage and onscreen, the title character in “Fleabag” says things that are pretty outrageous — even to Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the woman who created her. Listen to this week’s po…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:30PMWe know next to nothing of the “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” — nothing beyond what Shakespeare tells us in 26 stanzas of overblown verse. Her eyes were nothing like the sun, of course –…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMThursday, March 21, 2019
In the wake of the long-running “Jersey Boys” and the short-lived “Summer,” director Des McAnuff is back on Broadway with another show built around the song catalog of a music act �…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMAny new play by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (“Topdog / Underdog”) demands — and deserves — attention. And in its premiere production at the Public Theater,…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:22PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
If you find yourself directing a Broadway play with a cast so big it includes a goose, two rabbits, more kids than you can count and an actual infant, what do you do? If you’re Sam Mendes,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:32PMMonday, March 18, 2019
Anyone who doesn’t have a cottage on the Cape or the Islands, as they say in Massachusetts, might be puzzled by the title of John Guare’s new play. “Nantucket Sleigh Ride” is no Re…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, March 14, 2019
No, Kate doesn’t get spanked. And for those wondering how the dicey ending of “Kiss Me, Kate” — that musical mashup of “The Taming of the Shrew” and backstage battling exes — w…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM 
