Wednesday, 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 10:00PMFriday, September 20, 2024
Producer Aaron Glick, Rachel Sussman, Jamila Ponton Bragg and more share how the fellowship aided their path to the Main Stem.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:30AMWednesday, September 18, 2024
A little-known fact about Daniel Dae Kim: He’s really, really into “Saturday Night Live.” “I’m a super fan,” says the actor just a few days before starting performances for the r…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:15PMThursday, September 12, 2024
There’s something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of “The Roommate,” a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM“There is,” as Stephen Sondheim once groaned, “nothing worse than great expectations.” It may seem unfair to evoke a master when reviewing only the second show from a young British m…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMFriday, September 6, 2024
They don’t give out Tony Awards for Most Comically Elaborate Broadway-Themed Promotional Announcement of a Football Telecast Series. But if they did, “ManningCast the Musical” would be…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, September 3, 2024
If you’re a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award — but it won’t get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning com…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMTuesday, August 20, 2024
Broadway fans often talk about theater as a spiritual experience — but most of them aren’t thinking of tarot cards when they say it. That could change thanks to a new tarot deck that’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:07PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Close to the climax of “Once Upon a Mattress,” now revived on Broadway for the second time, Princess Winnifred (Sutton Foster) has reached the end of her rope. After the frustrations of …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Optimistic, curious, adventurous. Also: Zero complexity. That’s how Sutton Foster describes Princess Fred, the character she plays in the Broadway revival of “Once Upon a Mattress.” Li…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28PMFriday, August 2, 2024
“The Queen of Versailles,” the much-anticipated reunion of “Wicked” collaborators Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz, offers the diva her richest opportunity to date to flex her …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:34PMThursday, August 1, 2024
The fifth-anniversary Broadway performance of “Moulin Rouge!” didn’t exactly go as planned. A technical issue with the set delayed the July 25 curtain by some 45 minutes and required c…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
It’s no spoiler to say “JOB”, Max Wolf Friedlich’s electrifying synapse of play, features a highly stressed young woman pointing a gun at a therapist in his office. That’s how the …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMTuesday, July 23, 2024
The creators of “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” are certain their hit show will have a future life — they just don’t yet know what that future life looks like. Listen to this week’s “…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PMFriday, July 19, 2024
Famous for many things, not least Carol Channing playing the title role more than 5,000 times, “Hello, Dolly!” is, happily, one of Broadway’s brashest, splashiest star vehicles whose r…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Cole Escola’s “Oh, Mary!” is the best kind of stupid: a broad, wildly funny comedy that spits in the face of American history and uses it as joke fodder for some endlessly campy humor.…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:22PMTuesday, July 9, 2024
In the admirably bold, unconventionally self-aware new stage musical version of John Berendt’s 1994 blockbuster bestseller “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,” transgender icon T…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PMSaturday, July 6, 2024
When too many contemporary theatre writers mistake the grinding of political axes for properly developed drama, it’s a relief to realize that Australian playwright Kendall Feaver is more t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PMMonday, June 17, 2024
There were a whole lot of sure things heading into the 2024 Tony Awards ceremony — “Stereophonic,” “Merrily We Roll Along,” Daniel Radcliffe. But this year’s full list of winners…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMSunday, June 16, 2024
Live theater always reflects the moment in which it’s presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed ant…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMSaturday, June 15, 2024
Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner, the duo who have produced and directed the Tony Awards telecast since 2003, won’t share too many specifics about the Tony ceremony coming up on Sunday. But …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02AMThursday, June 13, 2024
For all its jaw-dropping spectacle, and the musical excitement of the tunes by Florence Welch (of Florence and the Machine) and Thomas Bartlett (a/k/a Doveman), the American Repertory Theate…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMBuzz for the new play “Invasive Species” infiltrated the downtown New York theater scene like a swarm of spotted lanternflies. Maybe you noticed one of those photos of Jennifer Lawrence …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM 
