Tuesday, January 29, 2019
During 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 01:07PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Against all odds, writer Aaron Sorkin and director Bartlett Sher have succeeded in crafting a stage-worthy adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic American novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
How does a musical stage adaptation of Amy Heckerling’s 1995 film comedy of oblivious privileged teens, “Clueless,” play in the era of female empowerment and millennial engagement? Tr…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:24PMActing onstage has been a regular part of Daniel Radcliffe’s career for more than a decade — and the “Harry Potter” star says there’s a good reason for that: It…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:42AMSunday, December 9, 2018
With the rumbling of semis careening by and the sound of Middle Eastern music in the distance, “The Jungle” aims to vividly immerse audiences into the world of the real-life migrant and …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMThursday, December 6, 2018
The 1976 film “Network” won four Academy Awards, including best original screenplay for writer Paddy Chayefsky, for its blistering portrayal of an American society fueled by greed and bl…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMWednesday, December 5, 2018
Sometimes on Broadway, you have to mobilize quickly. Take producer Jeffrey Chrzczon. He scored a prime Broadway theater, the Imperial, for his new Christmas-themed show — but he landed the…
SOURCE: Broadway.News Subscription at 10:39AMTuesday, December 4, 2018
Cher has been famous for so long, it’s tempting to think there’s nothing new to know about her. But on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater pod…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:25PMEthan Hawke is starring on Broadway in True West — and no one is more surprised about it than Ethan Hawke. “I never thought I’d do this play,” says the Oscar and Tony-nominated actor…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:54AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher — and then Cher sans Sonny — headlined in the ‘70s is a choice that lands as flat as the jokes in Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
It seems safe to say that Joan Allen has a pretty good handle on screen acting — she’s been nominated for three Oscars, after all. But on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variet…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMFriday, November 23, 2018
It’s hard to imagine “Summer and Smoke“ in better shape. Rebecca Frecknall’s spare staging takes a lesser Tennessee Williams play and reveals the great drama at its core — a de…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:06PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Michael C. Hall is always hearing about the return of “Dexter” — but not from anyone actually involved in the show. “People on the street are always telling me about …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Imogen Heap was involved in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child before she even knew the play existed. During the early days of the play’s top secret development, the movement director, Stev…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:13AMThursday, November 15, 2018
It seems like a dubious musical mash-up: Broadway narcissists-turned-activists take over a middle-American town to help a lesbian teen who just wants to bring her date to the prom. But with …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32PMTwelve years in the making, “Hadestown” has hit its moment bang on. A show that started life as a touring production for schools, instilling the Orpheus myth into kids through song, beca…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Glenn Close has thought about what “Fatal Attraction” means in the #MeToo era — and she’s got an idea for how to retell the story. “I think she’s considered m…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM“Pinter at the Pinter” is not merely completist, it’s meticulously curated. A decade after Harold Pinter’s death, director Jamie Lloyd’s six-month season of the writer’s shor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PMOne evening after a recent performance of the play Apologia, its star, Stockard Channing, welcomed three friends backstage — and was astonished to discover that her pals had tears in their…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:52AM 
