Tuesday, July 3, 2018
“Imperium” builds Rome in a day. Robert Harris’ trilogy of novels charts the city’s slide from a great civilization to a grim imperial power, as democracy buckles and dictatorship di…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMFriday, June 29, 2018
The new jukebox bio-musical “The Cher Show” captures a good amount of the vibrant personality and genuinely admirable perseverance that make Cher the ultimate celebrity survivor. But l…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:36PMTuesday, June 26, 2018
Think Broadway is big now? Then get ready, because the boom is just beginning. So says Ken Davenport, the producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of “Once On This Island,&#…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:12PMJust when you thought it was safe to go to the theater again without suffering through plays about straight couples caught up in parenting issues of interest to no one but themselves, along …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:04PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Although Idina Menzel looks fabulous in “Skintight,” the new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews,” “Significant Other”), her character, Jodi Isaac, is a total wreck when she flies into…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:36PMDirector Saheem Ali and the very fine designers of the Manhattan Theater Club have created a magical setting for Donja R. Love’s “Sugar in our Wounds,” a romantic drama (the first in a…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:42PMTuesday, June 19, 2018
The thing about doing a play is: You gotta really like it. That’s actor BD Wong’s philosophy, anyway. “You need to enjoy it more in a play than a television show or in a film, I think,…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:52PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells may be starring in a Broadway show, but they can be superfans just like everybody else. The two actors, now appearing in the new revival of “The Boys in …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:33PMMonday, June 11, 2018
When it comes to award shows, the viewers at home often get the best seats in the house: Their sofas, where presumably no one is as hot or as hungry as the folks in black tie packed into the…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:12PMFriday, June 8, 2018
It’s a year of sure things and wild cards. As Broadway heads into the 2018 Tony Awards (airing June 10 on CBS), a lot of the night’s biggest winners feel like foregone conclusions —…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Stories have a way of opening up on a stage. Elizabeth Strout’s bestselling novel “My Name Is Lucy Barton” looks, at first glance, like a curious choice for a theatrical adaptation. It…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:26AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
Basil Twist, the puppeteer and MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner, began his career way, way downtown. He’s still working there — current example: the 20th anniversary p…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:08PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Festivities are certainly in order for this superbly mounted 50th anniversary production of “The Boys in the Band,” Mart Crowley’s breakthrough 1968 play about Manhattan gay life …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:48PMWednesday, May 30, 2018
What’s it like to be recognized for a Tony Award compared to an Oscar? Let Andrew Garfield — the actor currently nominated for a Tony for “Angels in America,” and nom…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMFriday, May 25, 2018
It’s a risky business, making a musical not from a story demanding to be told but from a set of songs merely available to be used. “Jagged Little Pill,” American Repertory Theater’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:28AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
When Tina Fey was writing her first Broadway musical — “Mean Girls,” now nominated for 12 Tony Awards — she sometimes felt a little at sea. “There were definite…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:06PMTuesday, May 15, 2018
LaChanze has a favorite Donna Summer song — but you won’t hear it in “Summer,” the Broadway bio-musical for which the actress is currently nominated for a Tony in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:28PMMonday, May 14, 2018
The scene of “Paradise Blue,” Dominique Morisseau’s black-and-bluesy play, is the Paradise Club, a drink and dance joint in Paradise Valley, the entertainment district of Detroit‘s b…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:33PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
In the minds of a lot of people, the classic musical “My Fair Lady” is about a man who molds a young woman into society’s ideal of a proper lady — and it seems like a…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:07PMFriday, May 4, 2018
To hell with harmony: “Mood Music” is all dischord. The first play in more than five years by Joe Penhall (“Mindhunter”) presents a sharp dissection of power in the music industry. A…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:13PMWednesday, May 2, 2018
No matter how frosty the West’s relations with Russia, is there really any reason to roll “Chess” out of cold storage? For all the bangers of its retro score, Benny Andersson and Björ…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:09PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Lynn Nottage is a playwright best known for socially engaged realism (“Sweat,” “Ruined”), so it’s pretty surprising that her new play, “Mlima’s Tale…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:36PMNominations for the 2018 Tony Awards were announced Tuesday morning at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts in Manhattan. Tony winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (“Hamilton”) …
SOURCE: Variety at 08:29AMMonday, April 30, 2018
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” “Frozen,” and “Mean Girls” are ready to make a splash in the 2018 Tony nominations Tuesday morning — but those …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06PMLa MaMa E.T.C., the downtown Manhattan theater that was one of the major birthplaces of the Off Off Broadway scene, will receive the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award. Founded by the late Ell…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:59PM“The Writer” has split the critics — as proper writing probably should. Some have dismissed Ella Hickson’s new play at the Almeida Theatre, about a frustrated female playwr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PMHarry Potter, Tina Fey, Denzel Washington, Panic! at the Disco: They could all end up sitting in the same room in six weeks, because they’re all contenders for nominations for the 201…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:03PM“Lettie,” a family drama about a woman emerging from prison and addiction with a desire to reclaim the teenage kids who have barely seen her in seven years, is that rare play that manage…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMSaturday, April 28, 2018
“To Dust,” Shawn Snyder’s comedy starring Matthew Broderick, and roller-rink documentary “United Skates” have won the top audience awards at the 2018 Tribeca Fi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45PMThursday, April 26, 2018
With his buoyant air of all-American optimism and innate decency, Denzel Washington is well cast (by helmer George C. Wolfe) as Hickey, the long-awaited bearer of false hope, comforting lies…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:12PM“Diane,” writer-director Kent Jones’ drama starring Mary Kay Place, and actors Jeffrey Wright and Alia Shawkat were among the winners of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival̵…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:55PM 
