Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Broadway is back — and it’s looking to make some changes to how it used to operate. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: With producers, creators, advocates and exec…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMMonday, September 13, 2021
In recent decades, numerous musical have arrived in London with outsized production values swamping the material, leading critics to wish for time machines so that they can fast-forward to t…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:05PMWednesday, September 1, 2021
Is the quite splendid “Operation Mincemeat” ridiculously clever or cleverly ridiculous? Both. Making a song-n-dance show out of a real-life, stiff-upper-lip, British World War II intelli…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PMTuesday, August 31, 2021
From “Aladdin” in Mexico City to “Frozen” in London to “The Lion King” in Tokyo — not to mention “Lion King” and “Aladdin” on Broadway — Disney Theatrical Productions…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:44PMThursday, August 26, 2021
No one wants to talk about it, but it could happen: Someone involved in a Broadway production tests positive for COVID-19. In the run-up to reopening, there’s been significant coverage of …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:23AMSunday, August 22, 2021
In Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s surreal and morbidly funny existential drama “Pass Over,” two characters who might be fugitives from a Samuel Beckett play find themselves in a world wh…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Where do you go after you’ve seen “Wicked”? That worldwide smash has built a vast young audience hungry for stories propelled by power ballads of female empowerment, and it’s clearly…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
“Life is a cabaret, old chum.” Oh wait, wrong show. Or is it? Taking on Percy and Eleonore Adlon’s 1987 movie “Bagdad Cafe,” Emma Rice’s music-filled, uber-quirky production boas…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PMTuesday, August 17, 2021
It’s the question on all of Broadway’s mind right now: With the delta variant spreading just as shows are getting back up and running, how do we all — cast, crew and audiences — retu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PMMonday, August 9, 2021
For one of New York City’s first major theater events in 16 months, eager audiences cannot do better than reveling in the natural splendors of Central Park’s Delacorte Theater for the gl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, August 4, 2021
In a Manhattan studio late last month, rehearsal was in progress. Two actors ran through a playful chase sequence. A fight choreographer, seated at the head of the room with the director, th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMAs Broadway gets back to business and live performances resume around the country, the Sundance Institute has released a new study that diagnoses the state of the theater industry and imagin…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMThursday, July 22, 2021
Skeptics puzzling over the logic of watching 82-year-old Ian McKellen playing student prince Hamlet need only look as far as the play’s second scene in which Hamlet rebukes his mother. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:18PMTuesday, July 20, 2021
When the Broadway production of Antoinette Nwandu’s play “Pass Over” opens on Broadway, it’ll incorporate significant changes — both on stage and behind the scenes. Listen to this …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:44PMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Aleshea Harris’ “What to Send Up When It Goes Down” isn’t a traditional play, but audiences shouldn’t come away with the mistaken impression that the show — a play, a ritual, a p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:43PMFriday, July 2, 2021
As the New York Theater industry pulls itself out of the COVID era, every baby step feels like a milestone. But perhaps no other reopening will carry the same symbolic weight as the return o…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMThursday, July 1, 2021
“The whole point is to combine two complementary or contrasting thoughts in the same moment. Two feelings in the same moment.” Johann Sebastian Bach, the 18th century’s uncontested gen…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:24PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Who knew iniquity could feel so pulsating and immensely purifying? “Seven Deadly Sins,” New York City theater’s newest unholy outdoor experience, tests the limits of how far live theat…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
“We are paying you to stay awake and care.” That sounds like an admonition to the audience at the National Theatre’s new production, “Under Milk Wood.” But in fact it’s sensible …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
The enduring musical “Rent,” celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, didn’t just revolutionize Broadway. It had an impact all over the world — and the new documentary “Revoluti…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMThursday, June 10, 2021
Remembrance of things past is not just a preoccupation of Proust. From King Lear’s terrifying fear of losing his mind to Pinter’s interlocked threesome in “Old Times” hotly contestin…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:51PMTuesday, June 8, 2021
For the creators of the Tony-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights,” the new, big-budget movie version wasn’t just a chance to go big with splashy song-and-dance numbers. It was als…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Producer Sonia Friedman returns to the post-pandemic West End not with a safe revival but with a succession of brief runs for three socially-distanced world premieres by young writers, and i…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMFriday, May 28, 2021
Should we go to a Broadway show tonight, or should we stream it? That’s a question that people could be asking about more than just “Hamilton” when Broadway gets back up and running. I…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PMTuesday, May 25, 2021
Broadway has long known that Black professionals are underrepresented backstage and in leadership positions in the commercial theater industry — but now a new initiative from a group of Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PMFriday, May 21, 2021
As the U.K. begins reopening in the wake, fingers crossed, of the pandemic, the idea of the reopening the West End with a new solo show written and performed by a debuting playwright is some…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:27PMTuesday, May 11, 2021
The composer-performer Heather Christian describes her new movie “Animal Wisdom” as a “theater-concert-hybrid-séance-performance.” And maybe after months of lockdown, that’s what …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:27PMSaturday, May 8, 2021
For this smart, lockdown-era, streaming iteration of Samuel Beckett’s show about nothing — and also everything, perhaps, and electric alienation for sure — director Scott Elliott and h…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
Think producing digital play readings is as simple as getting a few actors together on Zoom? Think again. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: For the starry Spotlight o…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots. That could mean the lyrical “Anna in the Tropics,” the play th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
In response to the shooting in Atlanta and the rise in hate crimes it underscored, Asian American theater artists took action, organizing support and self-care programs for the Asian America…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PM 
