Thursday, 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 09:00PMIt takes three to tango, and Jamie Lloyd’s “Betrayal” completely grasps that. Having made it his mission to modernize the way we stage Harold Pinter’s plays, his chic, stripped-down …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:12PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
Sound design might be the most thankless job on Broadway — because when you get it right, nobody notices. Besides, a lot of theatergoers — and more than a few Tony voters — don’t qui…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:02PMMonday, March 11, 2019
Like “The Father,” which won the 2016 Tony Award for Frank Langella in the titanic lead role, “The Mother,” which features a searing performance by Isabelle Huppert, advances French …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSunday, March 10, 2019
“Be More Chill” is already a Broadway Cinderella story. A tale of nerdy teen angst and technology by songwriter Joe Iconis and bookwriter Joe Tracz, this geek-love, sci-fi, high school m…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Watching Phoebe Waller-Bridge, as the lead character of “Fleabag,” trying to resist saying something bitingly perceptive, inappropriately funny and completely unexpected is a study of co…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
Possible spoiler: The kid ain’t worth it! Some breathtaking design work has gone into the sleek production of Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy,” directed by Danya Taymor (“Pass Over”),…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43PMProducer Eva Price has been working on Broadway for years now — but this year, she’s really making her mark, first as the lead producer of this spring’s edgy new revival of “Oklahoma…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:26PMThursday, February 28, 2019
A 15-year-old misfit, sitting alone on the fire escape and drawing cartoon dreams of a larger-than-life hero to rescue him from the perils of being a teenager. Haven’t we seen this one bef…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Laura Benanti is now playing her dream role on Broadway. At the same time, the Tony winner (“Gypsy”) is also playing her toughest part ever. Listen to this week’s podcast below…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:59PMFriday, February 15, 2019
Time is money. Money is time. Both come unstuck in “The American Clock.” Arthur Miller’s kaleidoscopic account of the Great Depression, part autobiography, part social history, crawls …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Comfy? Okay, let’s talk Death: sudden death, painful death, lingering death, accidental death, and whatever other kinds of death happen to come into the receptive minds of playwrights Simo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PMTo adapt a crass old adage: it’s “All About Eve,” not “All About Steve.” Stripping Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s sharp-witted screenplay about a waning theater star of its period trappi…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Director Adam Shankman’s latest movie, the Taraji P. Henson comedy “What Men Want,” isn’t a musical. But as one of Hollywood’s top director-choreographers of mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:52PMThursday, February 7, 2019
“Pinter at the Pinter” has been an education — a crash course in Britain’s greatest post-war playwright. Director-producer Jamie Lloyd’s star-studded, six-month sprint through …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:46PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Jeremy Pope is having the kind of year most young actors dream of: He’s currently making his Broadway debut in the title role of “Choir Boy,” the play by Oscar winner Tarel…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:06PMScott Ellis and Warren Carlyle never thought they’d bring Kiss Me, Kate back to Broadway. The duo behind Roundabout Theatre Company’s recent popular revivals of She Loves Me, On the Twen…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:18AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Back when “The Prom” opened on Broadway in the fall, critics swooned over the musical comedy with a message. But for a while there, the creators had begun to think that their sho…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMDuring its journey to Broadway, the buzzy Hadestown wasn’t just establishing an ardent fan base. It was also growing and developing from a rousing concert staging into a full work of music…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:34AMDo you believe in divine inspiration? Talk to indie singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell about Hadestown, and you just might. To hear Mitchell tell it, the first flash of what would become Hade…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 05:17AMMonday, January 28, 2019
“Leave to Remain” was almost a graphic novel. And a concept album. And a television series. Eventually Bloc Party’s frontman Kele Okereke and co-writer Matt Jones swung behind the idea…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22AMThursday, January 24, 2019
Austin (Paul Dano) is the mild brother, a Hollywood screenwriter holed up in his mother’s house and pecking away at a screenplay. Lee (Ethan Hawke) is the wild brother, a desert rat and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:54PMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Ethan Hawke had a long relationship with Sam Shepard and his work — but he never thought he’d end up on Broadway in “True West.” That’s because Philip Seymour H…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:50PMMonday, January 21, 2019
Oklahoma! is back — but this isn’t your grandparents’ Broadway musical. This spring, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic 1943 musical Oklahoma! returns to Broadway as a surprising …
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 11:05AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
For a decade, writer-performer Heidi Schreck had wanted to write a play inspired by her experiences as a teen debater. But over the years the show started to develop into something both urge…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTuesday, January 8, 2019
Honestly, I was afraid that “Choir Boy” — the sweetly exuberant account of a gifted prep school boy’s coming of age, written by “Moonlight” Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:12PMBroadway composer Jason Robert Brown never expected to find himself performing onstage at Madison Square Garden. But he did — thanks to his pal Ariana Grande. Brown met Grande before s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:51AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Every dramatist has their off plays. Stage Shakespeare in full and you’re stuck with “Two Noble Kinsmen.” Tackle Chekhov and your problem is “Platonov.” Director-producer Jamie Llo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Political plotting has become a national pastime in Britain. Hardly a week goes by without an attempted parliamentary coup. “The Tragedy of King Richard the Second,” Joe Hill-Gib…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
“The Cane” lands with a thwack — a timely intervention in a topical debate. By dredging up the specter of corporal punishment in British schools, Mark Ravenhill’s terse allegoric…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:33PMThe Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly doesn’t enjoy acting. When her younger brother, Tim Daly, was a kid, he thought actors were just “drunken grownups who wouldn’t…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:07PM 
