The 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 01:07PMAgainst 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 09:54PMHow 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 11:42AMWith 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 08:42PMThe 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 08:42PMSometimes 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 10:39AMCher 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 04:54AMChoosing 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 08:42PMIt 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 12:36PMIt’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 01:06PMMichael 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 01:16PMImogen 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 04:13AMIt 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 12:07PMGlenn 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“Does it scare you? Being face to face with the modern mind?” Thom Pain, in the persuasive person of Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), throws out the challenge at the top of Will E…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:06AMWhen is a standup routine not a standup routine, but a legitimate play? Partly when it comes with theatrical trappings like a thoughtful set, subtle lighting and sound effects. (Give a pass …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PM“He’s not a film, he’s theater!” says the movie director in the musical “King Kong,” when he realizes that the mighty creature he is about to capture is best presented on…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMThe Kilburn High Road carves a line through north London. Turkish grills, Irish pubs and Indian grocers jostle with jerk shops, pizzerias and a political theater — formerly the Tricycl…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMSasson Gabay is one of international cinema’s most respected actors: Tony winner Ari’el Stachel once called him “the De Niro of Israel.” But that doesn’t mean G…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMThe 1988 film “Beetlejuice” spawned a cult following for the freshly minted “gothic fantasy” style of its director, Tim Burton, and for Michael Keaton’s delicious performance as a …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:14PMIt’s four a.m. on a dark and rainy morning in playwright Christopher Demos-Brown’s gripping play, “American Son,” and Kendra Ellis-Connor (Kerry Washington) and Scott Connor …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32PMFollowing an Off Broadway run at Second Stage Theater last year, “Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song” opened on Broadway Nov. 1 with the same cast and creative team. The followi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMFor most of us, “Grease” stands in our memory as an iconic movie musical, one that’s launched a million karaoke singalongs of “Summer Lovin’.” You might t…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMIn 1989, Greenwich Village was still the kind of place where a nice old lady like Gladys Green could own and operate an art gallery for unknown artists who never sold a painting to impoveris…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33PMHans Christian Andersen had his secrets. By day, a revered children’s writer — the Greatest of Danes; by night, a repressed brothel habitué. Whitewashed as his legacy has been, it�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMA novel based on a Broadway show is a rare thing — but there’s one on the shelves now, thanks to the recently released young-adult adaptation of “Dear Evan Hansen.” A…
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