Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Cher has been famous for so long, it’s tempting to think there’s nothing new to know about her. But on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater pod…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:25PMEthan Hawke is starring on Broadway in True West — and no one is more surprised about it than Ethan Hawke. “I never thought I’d do this play,” says the Oscar and Tony-nominated actor…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:54AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Choosing to recreate the spirit of the television variety shows that Sonny and Cher — and then Cher sans Sonny — headlined in the ‘70s is a choice that lands as flat as the jokes in Br…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
It seems safe to say that Joan Allen has a pretty good handle on screen acting — she’s been nominated for three Oscars, after all. But on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variet…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMFriday, November 23, 2018
It’s hard to imagine “Summer and Smoke“ in better shape. Rebecca Frecknall’s spare staging takes a lesser Tennessee Williams play and reveals the great drama at its core — a de…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:06PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Michael C. Hall is always hearing about the return of “Dexter” — but not from anyone actually involved in the show. “People on the street are always telling me about …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Imogen Heap was involved in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child before she even knew the play existed. During the early days of the play’s top secret development, the movement director, Stev…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 04:13AMThursday, November 15, 2018
It seems like a dubious musical mash-up: Broadway narcissists-turned-activists take over a middle-American town to help a lesbian teen who just wants to bring her date to the prom. But with …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:32PMTwelve years in the making, “Hadestown” has hit its moment bang on. A show that started life as a touring production for schools, instilling the Orpheus myth into kids through song, beca…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:07PMTuesday, November 13, 2018
Glenn Close has thought about what “Fatal Attraction” means in the #MeToo era — and she’s got an idea for how to retell the story. “I think she’s considered m…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PM“Pinter at the Pinter” is not merely completist, it’s meticulously curated. A decade after Harold Pinter’s death, director Jamie Lloyd’s six-month season of the writer’s shor…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PMOne evening after a recent performance of the play Apologia, its star, Stockard Channing, welcomed three friends backstage — and was astonished to discover that her pals had tears in their…
SOURCE: Broadway Direct at 01:52AMMonday, November 12, 2018
“Does it scare you? Being face to face with the modern mind?” Thom Pain, in the persuasive person of Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), throws out the challenge at the top of Will E…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:06AMSunday, November 11, 2018
When is a standup routine not a standup routine, but a legitimate play? Partly when it comes with theatrical trappings like a thoughtful set, subtle lighting and sound effects. (Give a pass …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:57PMThursday, November 8, 2018
“He’s not a film, he’s theater!” says the movie director in the musical “King Kong,” when he realizes that the mighty creature he is about to capture is best presented on…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:48PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
The Kilburn High Road carves a line through north London. Turkish grills, Irish pubs and Indian grocers jostle with jerk shops, pizzerias and a political theater — formerly the Tricycl…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMSasson Gabay is one of international cinema’s most respected actors: Tony winner Ari’el Stachel once called him “the De Niro of Israel.” But that doesn’t mean G…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:51PMMonday, November 5, 2018
The 1988 film “Beetlejuice” spawned a cult following for the freshly minted “gothic fantasy” style of its director, Tim Burton, and for Michael Keaton’s delicious performance as a …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:14PMSunday, November 4, 2018
It’s four a.m. on a dark and rainy morning in playwright Christopher Demos-Brown’s gripping play, “American Son,” and Kendra Ellis-Connor (Kerry Washington) and Scott Connor …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:32PMThursday, November 1, 2018
Following an Off Broadway run at Second Stage Theater last year, “Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song” opened on Broadway Nov. 1 with the same cast and creative team. The followi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:42PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
For most of us, “Grease” stands in our memory as an iconic movie musical, one that’s launched a million karaoke singalongs of “Summer Lovin’.” You might t…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:39PMThursday, October 25, 2018
In 1989, Greenwich Village was still the kind of place where a nice old lady like Gladys Green could own and operate an art gallery for unknown artists who never sold a painting to impoveris…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:33PMHans Christian Andersen had his secrets. By day, a revered children’s writer — the Greatest of Danes; by night, a repressed brothel habitué. Whitewashed as his legacy has been, it�…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
A novel based on a Broadway show is a rare thing — but there’s one on the shelves now, thanks to the recently released young-adult adaptation of “Dear Evan Hansen.” A…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMMonday, October 22, 2018
“What a joy it is to dance and sing!” The words run throughout Angela Carter’s last novel “Wise Children,” a headlong tumble through the world of London theater, and their spirit i…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:55PMThursday, October 18, 2018
Harry Potter had no sense of humor whatsoever, but Daniel Radcliffe proves to be a master of comedy in “The Lifespan of a Fact,” the brainy Broadway play that Jeremy Kareken, Dav…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
After a disastrous foray into the world of Joan of Arc with the musical “Joan of Arc: Into the Fire,” the Public Theater makes an ill-advised return to the subject with its new productio…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:06PMHere comes “Company,” remade for today. With Stephen Sondheim’s blessing, director Marianne Elliott has given the marital musical an incisive gender-flip. Bobby has become Bobbie; bach…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
Aasif Mandvi thinks Hollywood and the entertainment industry are making some positive strides toward inclusion and diversity — but there’s still a lot of work to be done. “…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
The digital revolution may be making things tough for the recording industry, and the film and TV business — but it’s a big reason Broadway is as popular as it is today, accordin…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
When Bob Dylan’s management team first approached playwright Conor McPherson to create a theater piece using Dylan’s songs, the Irish playwright didn’t exactly leap at the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:09PM 
