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," Variety's thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PM[SHARE]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"), Tituss B…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]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 production …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]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 " one of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PM[SHARE]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 06:15PM[SHARE]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's "…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PM[SHARE]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. " th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]A 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 relea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AM[SHARE]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, pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:39PM[SHARE]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 01:30PM[SHARE]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, according t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]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 indus…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PM[SHARE]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," present…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]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 produ…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:25PM[SHARE]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 the new …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]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 06:00AM[SHARE]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 arrive …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AM[SHARE]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 the F…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AM[SHARE]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 history in …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PM[SHARE]Broadway'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 firecrack…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM[SHARE]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 hit Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:45PM[SHARE]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 and su…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PM[SHARE]"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 and outr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]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 newspaper tha…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]If "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 the p…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:53PM[SHARE]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 the Dustin…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]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 "All My …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]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 09:08PM[SHARE]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 if anyone …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PM[SHARE]"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. Arriving…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05PM[SHARE]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 Russell, pla…
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