Sunday, March 19, 2023
It’s hard to believe, but Bob Fosse’s definitive signature musical “Dancin’” has never been revived on Broadway since its Tony Award-winning debut in 1978. Huge kudos, then, to dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical “Parade” has no…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
Since Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, is one of the finest, most detailed Shakespeare directors in the land, you could be forgiven for forgetting that he r…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PMThursday, March 9, 2023
There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s drama “A Doll’s House” — no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
The new play “Pictures From Home” is Tony Award winner Nathan Lane’s 25th Broadway show — and he’s threatening not to come back for a 26th. “This may be the last one,” Lane sai…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Currently one of the stars of “Star Trek: Discovery,” Anthony Rapp has recently spent some time looking back and reliving his past. Off Broadway, he’s starring in “Without You,” hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Nice acting and sensitive direction characterize “Pictures From Home,” the starry new Broadway production of Sharr White’s meh family drama based on the photo-memoir by Larry Sultan.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
National Black Theatre is in the midst of a building itself a new home in Harlem — but then, the company has been in the business of building a home for 55 years. Listen to this week’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:49PMMonday, January 30, 2023
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the epic scope and ambition of “Fall on Your Knees,” a two-part, six-hour adaptation of one of the most beloved Canadian novels of all time – An…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, January 27, 2023
The Broadway musical “Beetlejuice” simply refused to die. After a 2019 eviction notice from its original theater and an unceremonious 2020 shuttering by the COVID-19 lockdown, the produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
When Stephen McKinley Henderson talks about playwrights, he talks about music. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “August Wilson is, of course, the blues,” he said…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMSunday, January 15, 2023
“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” Blanche’s famously desperate cry holds the key to most approaches to “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Productions of Tennessee Williams’ master…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PMTuesday, January 10, 2023
Audra McDonald knows her new Broadway show is surprising theatergoers. “Some people come to see ‘Ohio State Murders’ and they’re taken aback by how I’m speaking or the words that I…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Caesar meets Cleopatra, Stalin meets Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe meets the Kennedy brothers: Consequential connections all. So, too, is the meeting and eventual partnership arranged by savvy N…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMMonday, December 19, 2022
How well can you ever really know a person? Do you judge by their actions, their hopes or some combination? Like many city creatures, the New Yorkers of “Between Riverside and Crazy,” no…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, December 15, 2022
Tectonic Theater Project, the 30-year-old company behind international stage successes “Gross Indecency” and “The Laramie Project,” has unveiled an upcoming slate of projects includi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the 87-year-old regional-theater stalwart that has become a leading player in the theater industry’s push to increase diversity, equity and inclusion, has part…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Delivering songs demanding freedom not only for the characters but the whole country under apartheid, the impassioned cast of the new musical “Mandela” (now premiering at the Young Vic i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMAfter spending the last 30-plus years as an Off Broadway favorite, actor Deirdre O’Connell (“Becky Nurse of Salem,” “Corsicana”) walked away from the 2022 Tony Awards with a trophy…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMSunday, December 11, 2022
Taking a classic film comedy — especially one that plays fast and loose with gender and sexuality — and turning it into a big Broadway musical is far from a sure thing in these contempor…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, December 8, 2022
It may be easy to take for granted that Audra McDonald, with six Tony Awards to her name, is capable of performances that creep delicately into your psyche and rattle around there as if clea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMYou don’t get more American than descending from one of the witches burned at the stake in Salem, Mass. Unless, that is, you’re also an opioid addict in that same town during the Trump y…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
When Nickelodeon revived its popular kids series “Blue’s Clues” in 2019, the show found its new host on Broadway. Josh Dela Cruz was doing eight shows a week in “Aladdin” when he w…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PMThe entirely beguiling lightness of touch is remarkable. Staging the startlingly prescient, gender-swapping, time-traveling 1928 novel “Orlando,” a lesser creative team would have gone …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PMMonday, December 5, 2022
If you are looking to draw an audience into what seems like a typical biographical jukebox musical, starting and ending your drama in psychoanalysis is a great device. Then again, “A Beaut…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
The question at the heart of “Ain’t No Mo’,” the incendiary and incisive new comedy that opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, is riotously and fruitfully absurd. Consider it a gleeful refra…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PMSunday, November 27, 2022
As defined by boy bands like BTS and girl groups like Blackpink, K-pop – gayo – is a Korean musical genre (‘brand’ is better) where Instiz all-kills (chart domination) is essenti…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
The new Museum of Broadway, which opened recently in Manhattan’s theater district, has a list of producer credits just like it’s a Broadway show. At the top of the list are co-founders J…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMMonday, November 21, 2022
“Marley was dead, to begin with.” That opening line always gives me the chills, and never more so than in this one-man (plus spooky specter) show featuring that consummate artist of many…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, November 17, 2022
Shakespeare’s Juliet singing Britney Spears’ “Oops…I Did It Again” is certainly a surprising and unexpected juxtaposition. While there is every reason to be skeptical of a Shakes…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMThe use of the word “fuck” as a statement occurs approximately 62 times in Will Arbery’s new play, “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,” and “Haha” or “Hahahaha” appears approxim…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PM 
