A bare set. Actors making stew on stage. An abundance of hand-held fog machines. Vague contemporary setting and costumes. A generally spooky atmosphere. Put all the ingredients together and …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PM[SHARE]I am woman, hear me roar " with laughter, at "POTUS: or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive," playwright Selina Fillinger's delicious feminist farce about th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43PM[SHARE]Sometimes being nice has its rewards. Take Buddy Young Jr., the bitter, self-centered, self-destructive comedian from the 1992 flop film "Mr. Saturday Night," which Billy Crystal starred in,…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Subjectivity is conditional. We can only understand our own points of view in relation to the differences that separate us. If art often intends to complete the circle ("look at how these ot…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thornton Wilder's allegorical play "The Skin of Our Teeth" is bizarre, abstract and convoluted; it's not to be taken seriously. Or so Sabina (Gabby Beans) tells the audience at Lincoln Cente…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]"You ever feel like there's someone watching from the shadows?" asks Beanie Feldstein's Fanny Brice, as haunting apparitions from the Ziegfeld star's past waft in and out in a kind of "Fanny…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]In the theatrical annals of wild and wicked stage plays, there are black comedies, blacker comedies, and blacker-than-the-dead-of-night comedies like "Hangmen." Â Prolific playwright Marti…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AM[SHARE]Ntozake Shange's iridescent choreopoem "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf" is the story of Black women and their often-disregarded human experiences. Wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Mommas, don't give your daughters the kind of nicknames that would appeal to their pedophile uncles. Cursed with a cutesy moniker like "Li'l Bit," what do you think might happen to a suppose…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:04AM[SHARE]Some stories creep up in disguise, hiding a ghastly scowl. "The Minutes" is an astonishing feat from playwright and star Tracy Letts, not least for its brilliant finesse in orchestrating aud…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Since 1997, composer-singer Barry Manilow and lyricist-librettist Bruce Sussman " the team behind iconic '70s pop classics such as "Copacabana" " have been looking to get their wise and witt…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Mike Bartlett's latest play is monstrous. In a good way. Shapeshifting actor Bertie Carvel, having shot to fame creating the marvelously alarming Miss Trunchbull in "Matilda," is back to wor…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:46PM[SHARE]When is a timeless children's tale not quite right for children's theater? When it is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved and ever-so-slightly surreal 1942 novella, "The Little Prince." Publ…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]One minute you're a teenager ready to "rebel against the universe," then in the blink of an eye you're a senior making peace with the life that was handed to you. That's the short and sweet …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Oh, what mean and nasty things men said about women who dared to fight for the right to vote in America. Here are some of those choice insults, taken from the very first song ("Watch Out for…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PM[SHARE]On a superficial level, the new musical "Suffs" looks a lot like "Hamilton" " so much so that "some people are calling it 'Hermilton,'" said one of the show's stars, Jenn Colella, on the new…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PM[SHARE]Public and personal identities are constantly being examined, teased and tested in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out," his grand paean to baseball and ontological quandaries, which is receivi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The body can sometimes say more than words, but even the most expressive moves cannot make a coherent case for "Paradise Square." The blunt and belabored history lesson of a new musical set …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]"We've discussed this. We've discussed this many times." That wearied line, which appears in the final scene of David Hare's new play "Straight Line Crazy," is spoken by Ariel Porter (Samuel…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:40AM[SHARE]Expanding accessibility is an ongoing concern for Broadway " and this spring, the musician Gaelynn Lea arrives with lessons she learned from advocating for the cause in the music industry. L…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PM[SHARE]John is desperate: "It's not a competition. Please, please it mustn't be that." Cue his girlfriend's snapped retort: "Then what is it really?" Good question. As revealed by the climactic rou…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:39PM[SHARE]Now that omicron is in decline, Broadway optimism is on the rise. After a bumpy holiday season rife with performance disruptions, show closures and hiatuses due to the highly contagious COVI…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:25PM[SHARE]Just how vocally demanding are roles in Broadway musicals like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" " and how much singing is too much? If two professors at New York University had their way, B…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PM[SHARE]At the start of the second half of Anthony McCarten's art-world bio-drama "The Collaboration," the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat's agent finds himself alone on the scrappy sofa of Basquiat's N…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:04PM[SHARE]Brittney Johnson is currently making history as the first Black actor to play Glinda in "Wicked," but she's also had a lot of Broadway experience in jobs that are in many ways even more chal…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PM[SHARE]The gap between what you see and what you get has long proved fertile territory for playwrights. At his considerable best, not least his Oscar-winning adapted screenplay of his play "The Fat…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:29PM[SHARE]Hugh Jackman dazzles as Professor Harold Hill, the charismatic con man who fires up an entire Midwestern town, in this abso-tootin'-lutely smashing revival of Meredith Willson's adorably cor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PM[SHARE]Lynn Nottage has had a hat-trick of shows on New York stages this season: the new opera "Intimate Apparel," the Michael Jackson musical "MJ" and the play "Clyde's." How does she top that? Li…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM[SHARE]In answer to the question of whether it's possible to separate the art from the artist, "MJ" performs a slick, crotch-grabbing sidestep. Packed with nearly 40 hits from Michael Jackson's irr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage's 2003 play "Intimate Apparel," where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration b…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That's clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Skeleto…
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