"I'm in this world but I'm not," the middle-aged woman confesses to an unseen interviewer in Lucas Hnath's "Dana H.," a mesmerizing solo show of theatrical shamanism that is receiving its Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Welcome to America, all ye wretched immigrants from impoverished foreign lands. Watch closely and learn as the three Lehman brothers from Bavaria " Henry the brainy head, Emanuel the powerfu…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07AM[SHARE]The title character of "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is unequivocal: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it was done quickly." Director Yaël Farber begs to differ. She takes one …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]A hope for the future arrives in the final moments of "Thoughts of a Colored Man," a dutiful and expansive cataloguing of its title subject by Keenan Scott II. "I can't wait for the day when…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The fan-favorite Broadway veteran Norm Lewis is doing something he's never done before: starring on Broadway in a play. After a career marked by many of the great roles in musical theater ("…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PM[SHARE]Everyone knows more than they let on at the top of "Is This a Room," a taut and pulse-prickling docudrama conceived and directed by Tina Satter. That includes audiences who are likely famili…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:30PM[SHARE]"Chicken & Biscuits" is a feast of a production, and there is enough sustenance and libation for the entire family. Zhailon Levingston, who at 27-years-old becomes the youngest Black dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Here's a treat: a restorative evening of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's loving recollections of growing up in an upstate New York boarding house run by a life force known as Nanny. When Nanny made …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:35PM[SHARE]The all-powerful family firm has assets aplenty, but its troubled future is being massively fought over with everyone plotting over the next generation. No, not the upcoming third season of …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:42PM[SHARE]Eighteen months after theaters around the country shut down, Jerry Zaks is back doing exactly what he was the moment things went dark: rehearsing his next big Broadway comedy. One of the ind…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]When Stephen C. Byrd began producing on Broadway 16 years ago, he and his partner Alia Jones-Harvey were usually the only Black faces they saw in the business. "We would walk into marketing …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Like everyone on Broadway at that moment, British director Michael Longhurst remembers exactly where he was when the COVID-19 shutdown came. "We had just done our dress rehearsal of 'Carolin…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PM[SHARE]There are two reasons that, among recent Hamlets, Cush Jumbo ("The Good Fight") is right up there alongside Benedict Cumberbatch and Ian McKellen. Like those two actors, Jumbo has dazzling e…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:35PM[SHARE]Strutting strong, arms akimbo and ready for a royal rumble, the sextet of cheeky spouses of King Henry VIII take to the stage in triumph " not just over the much-married monarch who did them…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]In "A Crossing," the new dance musical premiering at Barrington Stage in the Berkshires, a group of desperate immigrants confront hazardous terrains, punishing weather, threatening vigilante…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:02PM[SHARE]The playwrights Jocelyn Bioh and Martyna Majok have a bond, in life and in their work. "I feel like Martyna and I are these playwriting sisters in terms of the groups of people and the stori…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PM[SHARE]The long-delayed Tony Awards ceremony has happened at last, and much of it played out as expected " see, for instance, the string of wins for "Moulin Rouge!," which seemed the likely winner …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:04AM[SHARE]A Tony predictions story? In this climate? Yes, the Tony Awards are happening Sunday, although you might not know it. Publicity has been hampered by the confusing roll-out of the plan for th…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:20PM[SHARE]With all the uncertainty around Broadway right now, one thing's for sure: The Tony Awards this year will be unlike any other. The 2021 ceremony comes just as Broadway has begun its recove…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PM[SHARE]The claim to theatrical fame of the Long Island hamlet of Yaphank has thus far rested with PG Wodehouse, who included the town in his lyrics for Jerome Kern's satirical hymn to the simple li…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]"I don't want to take live theater for granted ever again, do you?" That was Lin-Manuel Miranda, in a brief curtain speech welcoming back the first Broadway audience at "Hamilton" since the …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:22PM[SHARE]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 executives…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]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 11:05PM[SHARE]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 intelligenc…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:42PM[SHARE]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 is in the midst of open…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:44PM[SHARE]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 th…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:23AM[SHARE]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 where be…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:05PM[SHARE]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 that cr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PM[SHARE]"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 boasts everythin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PM[SHARE]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 " return to th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:46PM[SHARE]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 gleefu…
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