Tuesday, 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 02:36PMEvery night, just as Summer: The Donna Summer Musical is ending, the party’s just beginning. That’s how it feels, anyway, when the rousing curtain call — a buoyant, full-cast rendition…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 07:11AMMonday, August 20, 2018
It was Monday morning in a Manhattan recording studio, and the cast of Summer: The Donna Summer Musical knew they’d made magic. The performers and musicians had all gathered on their first…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:59PMThursday, August 16, 2018
When the 1990 movie comedy “Pretty Woman” catapulted Julia Roberts to stardom, it was widely reported that Disney and late director Garry Marshall had tweaked J.F. Lawton’s downbeat pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMMonday, August 13, 2018
Producer Ken Davenport has racked up an impressive collection of Tony Award nominations (and a couple of wins) for shows like “Once on This Island,” “Kinky Boots,” and “Spring Awak…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:06PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Technology plays a major role onstage in “Be More Chill,” the high school-set musical that uses a brain altering super-computer — masquerading as a popularity drug —…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:18PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Since starting his tenure on “So You Think You Can Dance” 10 seasons ago, Spencer Liff has choreographed Broadway productions from “Falsettos” to “Hedwig and th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMMonday, August 6, 2018
Yes they can-can — they can transform Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 absinthe-tinged fantasia “Moulin Rouge!” into a socko stage spectacular. The story’s been strengthened in this splashy…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMFriday, August 3, 2018
From his unhinged Hamlet to a sympathetic Richard III, Mark Rylance has always been a great re-inventor of Shakespeare’s key roles. Now, returning to the Globe in “Othello” after a few…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:01AMTuesday, July 31, 2018
Kwame Kwei-Armah and Shaina Taub’s musicalized “Twelfth Night” is the kind of outdoor summer theater that transcends bad weather. Even if the skies crackle with lightning and showers…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48PMMonday, July 30, 2018
This might sound familiar to film buffs: A lying and philandering U.S. president suffers a debilitating stroke and is furtively replaced by a body double, who then foils the plot by honoring…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:48PMThursday, July 26, 2018
It’s really hard to laugh when somebody’s holding a gun to your head. That’s the way this Go-Go’s feels in “Head Over Heels,” an over-written, over-designed, and generall…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:42PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
Zachary Quinto’s got a big role on his bucket list — and it’s in a stage musical. Listen to this week’s podcast for free below and at Apple Podcasts: On the latest episo…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:15PMTuesday, July 24, 2018
Here are lyrics from a song in the new musical “This Ain’t No Disco” that creatives Stephen Trask (“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) and Peter Yanowitz hope will make us yearn for the g…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PMMonday, July 23, 2018
In “Straight White Men,” Young Jean Lee’s cutting but deeply humane satire about straight white male privilege and pain, Armie Hammer, Josh Charles and, in an especially heart-…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:37PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Fifty years after his play “Forty Years On,” Alan Bennett is still pining for the England of old. Just as his first play lamented the slipping standards of an old public school and, by e…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:38PMFriday, July 13, 2018
In Judaism, death is followed by the sitting of shiva. For seven days, seated mourners reflect on their loss. The ritual recurs throughout “The Lehman Trilogy,” playwright Steffano Massi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMThursday, July 12, 2018
In “Mary Page Marlowe,” Tracy Letts, the Tony-winning actor (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”) and Pulitzer and Tony-winning playwright (“August: Osage C…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:18PMThursday, July 5, 2018
Ashes to ashes, Dusty to Dusty. Almost 20 years after her death, the loss of Dusty Springfield still stings on these shores. Sniffles ring out at the end of Jonathan Harvey’s jukebox music…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:56AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
“Imperium” builds Rome in a day. Robert Harris’ trilogy of novels charts the city’s slide from a great civilization to a grim imperial power, as democracy buckles and dictatorship di…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMFriday, June 29, 2018
The new jukebox bio-musical “The Cher Show” captures a good amount of the vibrant personality and genuinely admirable perseverance that make Cher the ultimate celebrity survivor. But l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Think Broadway is big now? Then get ready, because the boom is just beginning. So says Ken Davenport, the producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of “Once On This Island,&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMJust when you thought it was safe to go to the theater again without suffering through plays about straight couples caught up in parenting issues of interest to no one but themselves, along …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:04PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Although Idina Menzel looks fabulous in “Skintight,” the new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews,” “Significant Other”), her character, Jodi Isaac, is a total wreck when she flies into…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36PMDirector Saheem Ali and the very fine designers of the Manhattan Theater Club have created a magical setting for Donja R. Love’s “Sugar in our Wounds,” a romantic drama (the first in a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:42PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
The thing about doing a play is: You gotta really like it. That’s actor BD Wong’s philosophy, anyway. “You need to enjoy it more in a play than a television show or in a film, I think,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells may be starring in a Broadway show, but they can be superfans just like everybody else. The two actors, now appearing in the new revival of “The Boys in …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMMonday, June 11, 2018
When it comes to award shows, the viewers at home often get the best seats in the house: Their sofas, where presumably no one is as hot or as hungry as the folks in black tie packed into the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMFriday, June 8, 2018
It’s a year of sure things and wild cards. As Broadway heads into the 2018 Tony Awards (airing June 10 on CBS), a lot of the night’s biggest winners feel like foregone conclusions —…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Stories have a way of opening up on a stage. Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling novel “My Name Is Lucy Barton” looks, at first glance, like a curious choice for a theatrical adaptation. It…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Basil Twist, the puppeteer and MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner, began his career way, way downtown. He’s still working there — current example: the 20th anniversary p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PM 
