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 09:00PMThere’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 10:53AMIt 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 11:00PMAre 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 10:52AMIn 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 05:12PMYou’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 11:00PMBack 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 04:32PMThe 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 12:48PMJez 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 10:00PMProducer 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 08:30AMA 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 05:15PMThere’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 06:30PMThey 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 11:00AMIf 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 05:37PMBroadway 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 04:07PMClose 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 10:00PMOptimistic, 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 02:28PM“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 01:34PMThe 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 04:15PMIt’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 09:30PMThe 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 02:55PMFamous 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 03:30PMCole 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 09:22PMIn 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 03:36PMWhen 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 12:28PMThere 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 12:00AMLive 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 01:05PMGlenn 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 11:02AMFor 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…
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