Tuesday, 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 12:08PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Festivities are certainly in order for this superbly mounted 50th anniversary production of “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s breakthrough 1968 play about Manhattan gay life …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:48PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
What’s it like to be recognized for a Tony Award compared to an Oscar? Let Andrew Garfield — the actor currently nominated for a Tony for “Angels in America,” and nom…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMFriday, May 25, 2018
It’s a risky business, making a musical not from a story demanding to be told but from a set of songs merely available to be used. “Jagged Little Pill,” American Repertory Theater’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
When Tina Fey was writing her first Broadway musical — “Mean Girls,” now nominated for 12 Tony Awards — she sometimes felt a little at sea. “There were definite…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
LaChanze has a favorite Donna Summer song — but you won’t hear it in “Summer,” the Broadway bio-musical for which the actress is currently nominated for a Tony in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28PMMonday, May 14, 2018
The scene of “Paradise Blue,” Dominique Morisseau’s black-and-bluesy play, is the Paradise Club, a drink and dance joint in Paradise Valley, the entertainment district of Detroit‘s b…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
In the minds of a lot of people, the classic musical “My Fair Lady” is about a man who molds a young woman into society’s ideal of a proper lady — and it seems like a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PMFriday, May 4, 2018
To hell with harmony: “Mood Music” is all dischord. The first play in more than five years by Joe Penhall (“Mindhunter”) presents a sharp dissection of power in the music industry. A…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
No matter how frosty the West’s relations with Russia, is there really any reason to roll “Chess” out of cold storage? For all the bangers of its retro score, Benny Andersson and Björ…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Lynn Nottage is a playwright best known for socially engaged realism (“Sweat,” “Ruined”), so it’s pretty surprising that her new play, “Mlima’s Tale…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:36PMNominations for the 2018 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (“Hamilton”) …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AMMonday, April 30, 2018
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Frozen,” and “Mean Girls” are ready to make a splash in the 2018 Tony nominations Tuesday morning — but those …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMLa MaMa E.T.C., the downtown Manhattan theater that was one of the major birthplaces of the Off Off Broadway scene, will receive the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. Founded by the late Ell…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PM“The Writer” has split the critics — as proper writing probably should. Some have dismissed Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida Theatre, about a frustrated female playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMHarry Potter, Tina Fey, Denzel Washington, Panic! at the Disco: They could all end up sitting in the same room in six weeks, because they’re all contenders for nominations for the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM“Lettie,” a family drama about a woman emerging from prison and addiction with a desire to reclaim the teenage kids who have barely seen her in seven years, is that rare play that manage…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
“To Dust,” Shawn Snyder’s comedy starring Matthew Broderick, and roller-rink documentary “United Skates” have won the top audience awards at the 2018 Tribeca Fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMThursday, April 26, 2018
With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PM“Diane,” writer-director Kent Jones’ drama starring Mary Kay Place, and actors Jeffrey Wright and Alia Shawkat were among the winners of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55PMThe Broadway revival of “Carousel” and the new musical “SpongeBob SquarePants” led the list of nominations for the 2018 Drama Desk Awards, with “Carousel”…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
“There is something about the girl,” say several characters over the course of George Bernard Shaw’s “Saint Joan,” now receiving a smart, stylish and engaging Broadway revival by t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04PMTwo New York companies that specialize in live, interactive content have joined forces to create a new firm, Immersive Activations Group, with an eye toward scaling up their activities in th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
In the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway revival of “Travesties,” a sign (“Ruhe Bitte”) on the show’s set advises us to please be quiet in the Zurich reading …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:24PMNick Scandalios, the executive vice president of the Nederlander Organization, will receive the Isabelle Stevenson Award at this year’s Tony Awards ceremony. Scandalios — a longt…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMIs Captain America ready to hang up his shield? Chris Evans has said so in the past, and his contract with Marvel is up after “Avengers 4,” the 2019 follow-up to the imminent …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:54PMIf that’s Donna Summer, then this must be the late 70s and early 80s, the era of disco dancing in the clubs and roller skating at the Roxy. (And let’s not even talk about the fashions.) …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:33AMA new musical by the Tony-winning duo behind “Spring Awakening,” Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater, and another by Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown are on tap for the 2018 se…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMMonday, April 23, 2018
The area of intersection between fans of iambic pentameter and doers of the “Cool Jerk” may be a limited one, so you can imagine the initial chore in store for anyone charged with target…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:36PMChita Rivera and Andrew Lloyd Webber will each take home a 2018 special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater, receiving their trophies at the awards ceremony this June. The lif…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThe “Harry Potter” novels spawned a massively successful film franchise, and now, with the April 22 opening of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” the Boy Who Lived …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:23AM 
