Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 animated film "Spirited Away" won everything from the Oscar for Best Animated Feature to Berlin's Golden Bear. That there's an audience for a stage version was evidence…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The new musical "Lempicka" has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it response from critics and audiences alike " and its two newly-minted Tony-nominated actors, Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman, love th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]When, at a dramatic peak, the lead character is running for her life and she's teetering on a perilously tiny walkway on the outside of a very tall building, and terrified, certain thoughts …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:55PM[SHARE]With the annual announcement of the Tony nominations comes the yearly list of snubs and surprises, as this season's shows see their dreams realized " or their hopes dashed " and prognosticat…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:31AM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2024
Variety's Awards Circuit is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year. It features the official predictions for the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tony Awards, cur…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2024
Sufjan Stevens's indie folk concept album "Illinois" (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullma…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:16PM[SHARE]Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a "theater rat." So it's natural she'd be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 25, 2024
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby," which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous f…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater's starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, th…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2024
When a character in the new musical "The Heart of Rock and Roll" tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: "Oh, my god. It's cardbo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]In Peter Morgan's tantalizing but disappointing new play "Patriots," Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 21, 2024
When Eddie Redmayne's slithering Emcee assures the audience at "Cabaret" that "here, life is beautiful," he's telling a half-truth. The August Wilson Theater, done up like the Kit Kat Club f…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 20, 2024
"Hell's Kitchen" opened on Broadway on April 20, 2024. The following is Aramide Tinubu's review of the show's Off Broadway premiere published on Nov. 19, 2023. The credits and copy have been…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2024
There's a moment in David Adjmi's play "Stereophonic" when a discordant, mid-'70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first time, with…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 18, 2024
A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat. Â But "Suffs," which tells the story of the final push …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2024
A flight of imagination born of the trippy 1970s, "The Wiz" can shoulder a lot of interpretation. Sidney Lumet's shadowy film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, sets the Black spin on…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Grant Gustin, the former CW superhero now making his Broadway debut in the musical "Water for Elephants," has been headlining his current, critically praised stage gig since it began preview…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2024
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka " but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be fa…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2024
According to theater lore, it was Elizabeth I who demanded Shakespeare write another play about Falstaff, which, allegedly, is why he wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Queen might have…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2024
Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination. S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," about a cadre of down-and-out boys, has been read by millions of rest…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2024
No one, wisely, has turned "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" into an opera " not least because, arguably, Eugene O'Neill's most famous play already is one. It features extended solo arias mi…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The Tony-winning Broadway icon Bernadette Peters has long been considered one of the foremost performers of composer Stephen Sondheim's work. But as Peters revealed in the latest episode of …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:22PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2024
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that love bone-shaking, ear-splitting spectacles, like fireworks and arena-sized heavy metal concerts, and those who want nothing more than…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2024
At the start of the second half of Ivo Van Hove's production of his own musical version of John Cassavetes' ultra-Seventies backstager "Opening Night" " with music and lyrics by Rufus Wainwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 21, 2024
Ever feel like running away from home to join a musical? Then "Water for Elephants" would be the show of choice that offers escapism, enchantment and heart " and thrills, too. Based on Sa…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Juliana Canfield didn't mean to lie when she was auditioning for the play "Stereophonic" " it just accidentally happened. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The actor, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2024
Musical theater can be a sucker for a romantic tale, whether it's about obsessive devotion, idealized passion, or lost loves. "The Notebook," based on Nicholas Sparks' bestselling, 1996 debu…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Even if you don't know "The Notebook," you know there's a romantic couple at the heart of the story. But in the new Broadway musical adaptation of "The Notebook," there's not just one couple…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:31PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2024
A cohort of producers, including Ben Holtzman, Thomas Laub, Sammy Lopez, Greg Nobile, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Heather Shields and Rachel Sussman, discuss their vision for Broadway.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2024
What's a theater influencer and how do you become one? On the latest episode of "Stagecraft," Variety's theater podcast, Kristin Hopkins and Ashley Hufford, two influencers with strong socia…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:41PM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2024
Oscar Wilde himself sat in the Royal Box in the West End's beautifully gilded Theatre Royal Haymarket in the 1890s for the premieres of his comedies "A Woman of No Importance" and "An Ideal …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:22PM[SHARE] 
