Thursday, March 27, 2025
Oscar Wilde’s infamous antihero Dorian Gray probably would’ve loved to have a barrage of cameras pointed at him, reflecting his gorgeous visage. This is exactly what Kip Williams’ tech…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
Ever since the theater industry’s post-lockdown return, one question has loomed large: When will Broadway return to the heights of the last full season before the pandemic, when both sales…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PMThursday, March 20, 2025
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for loca…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
One actress is a newcomer making her Broadway debut after winning raves out of town. The other is a Tony-winning favorite, back on Broadway for the first time in almost a decade. Together, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Kandi Burruss is a reality TV star, a music industry veteran, and an entrepreneur — and now, she’s a Broadway producer. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: A former…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new L…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMThe real-life story behind the Olivier Award-winning musical “Operation Mincemeat” isn’t just stranger than fiction. It’s so strange that some parts of the story proved just too much…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMThursday, February 13, 2025
There’s a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal — or for that matter, the political — and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace. A sep…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” opened on Broadway just days after Donald Trump took office for the second time — which was notable timing for a show that had it roots in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMThursday, January 23, 2025
Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels i…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
For Leslye Headland, the well-received Broadway play “Cult of Love” (pictured above) serves as a turning point and a culmination. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMFriday, January 17, 2025
As urgent and vital as it is, an investigation into international angles on climate change doesn’t sound remotely theatrical, let alone a race-to-the finish thriller. But that is precisely…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
A Japanese musical adaptation of the hit manga and anime franchise “Sailor Moon” will launch a North American tour this spring, playing nearly 20 cities on a route that begins in Pittsbu…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMMonday, January 6, 2025
On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and importan…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:10PMTuesday, December 24, 2024
The actor Joy Woods never thought much about “Gypsy” — at least not until she was cast in the show opposite Audra McDonald in one of the buzziest Broadway revivals of the season. Liste…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:28PMSunday, December 22, 2024
There’s a cozy ease that permeates “All In,” in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMMonday, December 16, 2024
“You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they’re the ones who cheer when the other team scores.” So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Ber…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
The Shed isn’t a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it’s hosted some of New York City’s starriest stage endeavors—from Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMMonday, December 2, 2024
A century after the novel first hit shelves, “The Great Gatsby” is the bee’s knees all over again. Just take a look at the New York theater scene, where adaptations of F. Scott Fitzger…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
There’s an unlikely connection between Louis Armstrong and Beetlejuice — or at least there is for James Monroe Iglehart, the Tony-winning Broadway star of the new musical “A Wonderful …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22AMThursday, November 21, 2024
In the new Broadway musical “Death Becomes Her,” a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover. Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
There’s so much to recommend “Swept Away” — about two brothers from a religious family who get trapped on an ill-fated whaling ship with a crew of doomed heathens — that it seems u…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AMThursday, November 14, 2024
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make “Tammy Faye” divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Are we human, or are we… robots? “Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question — or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PMMegan Hilty always knew “Death Becomes Her” would make a great musical — and now she’s headlining the show on Broadway. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: The …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:52AMTuesday, October 29, 2024
In his latest Broadway project, Emmy winner Darren Criss (“The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story”) and his co-star, Helen J. Shen, play retired, robotic “helperbot…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMThursday, October 24, 2024
You’d think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families’ senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gr…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Back during Nicole Scherzinger’s run in the West End revival of “Sunset Boulevard”—the show that won her an Olivier Award and has now brought her to Broadway to reprise her performan…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:32PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraf…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:48PMSunday, September 29, 2024
Jez Butterworth’s ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama “The Hills of California” straddles dual worlds of dreams and reality as it shuttles between two pivotal ti…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM 
