Tuesday, November 13, 2018
One 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 01:52AMMonday, November 12, 2018
“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 11:06AMSunday, November 11, 2018
When 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 07:57PMThursday, November 8, 2018
“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 08:48PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
The 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 01:51PMMonday, November 5, 2018
The 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 04:14PMSunday, November 4, 2018
It’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 08:32PMThursday, November 1, 2018
Following 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 08:42PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
For 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 03:39PMThursday, October 25, 2018
In 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 01:08PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
A 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMMonday, October 22, 2018
“What a joy it is to dance and sing!” The words run throughout Angela Carter’s last novel “Wise Children,” a headlong tumble through the world of London theater, and their spirit i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Harry Potter had no sense of humor whatsoever, but Daniel Radcliffe proves to be a master of comedy in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the brainy Broadway play that Jeremy Kareken, Dav…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
After a disastrous foray into the world of Joan of Arc with the musical “Joan of Arc: Into the Fire,” the Public Theater makes an ill-advised return to the subject with its new productio…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06PMHere comes “Company,” remade for today. With Stephen Sondheim’s blessing, director Marianne Elliott has given the marital musical an incisive gender-flip. Bobby has become Bobbie; bach…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Aasif Mandvi thinks Hollywood and the entertainment industry are making some positive strides toward inclusion and diversity — but there’s still a lot of work to be done. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
The digital revolution may be making things tough for the recording industry, and the film and TV business — but it’s a big reason Broadway is as popular as it is today, accordin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
When Bob Dylan’s management team first approached playwright Conor McPherson to create a theater piece using Dylan’s songs, the Irish playwright didn’t exactly leap at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PM“Tootsie,” a jaunty new stage musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy that starred Dustin Hoffman, has a real degree of currency to it, and it’s not because book writer Robert Horn…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:54AMMonday, October 1, 2018
Trailing clouds of glory from runs at London’s Old Vic and on the West End, Conor McPherson’s Depression-era treatment of classic Bob Dylan material vividly transforms individual songs i…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36PMThursday, September 27, 2018
“I am a fish and snooker is my sea,” says Dylan Spokes, an aspiring marlin of a player in “The Nap,” the delightfully loopy comedy by the “One Man, Two Guvnors” playwright Richar…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMThe personal is political. Politics is personal. Few plays understand either statement as fully as “Antony and Cleopatra.” In showing us the private lives of politicians — the grea…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:09PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Love the boots! The sexy black ones that Tony winner Janet McTeer (“Sorry For Your Loss,” “Ozark”) dons to play the actress Sarah Bernhardt in the role of Hamlet are …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:12PMThursday, September 20, 2018
With the midterm elections looming, Sharr White’s bruising political drama about real-life machine politics in 1977 Albany lands at an opportune moment to educate us on how the real pros u…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PMEdouard Louis’ childhood memoir “The End of Eddy” — “an autobiographical novel” — has become an international bestseller, his recollections of growing up gay in a gray,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:14PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The late actress Sarah Bernhardt shocked theatergoers when she decided to play the title character in “Hamlet” more than a century ago. Janet McTeer, the actress who currently pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
What’s the collective noun for a group of Betties? Based on Jen Silverman’s play, “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties,” perhaps “a rage of Betties” would suit. When these five…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
Andy Karl knows a thing or two about Broadway musicals based on movies after playing the UPS guy in “Legally Blonde,” the Italian Stallion himself in “Rocky,” and the…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMTuesday, August 21, 2018
It’s one thing to be told that the Off Broadway musical “Be More Chill” is a viral hit on the internet. It’s quite another to experience the hype live and in the room…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:36PM 
