Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Back in style after 40 years, Luis Valdez’s “Zoot Suit” is as custom-tailored a Los Angeles stage experience as they come: Commissioned back in 1977 by Center Theatre Group founding ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:44PMFriday, February 10, 2017
Death, heavy as the fog that surrounds the Tyrone family home and somber as the low sea-monster cry of the foghorn echoing across the water, hangs over “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:43PMThursday, December 29, 2016
In “Singin’ in the Rain,” Debbie Reynolds plays a reluctant ingénue, drawn into “the pictures” after Gene Kelly, playing a silent-era matinee idol trying to escape a mob of autogr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:51PMMonday, December 19, 2016
The most adorable character in all of French cinema finds her way to the American stage in the new musical adaptation of “Amélie,” and while it’s practically impossible not to love a …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:53PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
It has been just over a decade since Bob Iger engineered the deal that brought Steve Jobs’ Pixar Animation Studios to Disney, negotiating a $7.4 billion stock purchase that raised eyebrows…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30AMSunday, November 20, 2016
Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play “The Beauty Queen of Lenane” was the first of half a dozen scripts to come pouring out of McDonagh during a particularly prolific period back in the mid…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:24PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Princesses come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, though Disney’s latest addition to its ever-growing gallery of empowered female heroines — Moana (voiced by Hawaiian actress Auli’i Cr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMMonday, October 31, 2016
In “Vicuña,” a diabolical real estate tycoon turned Republican presidential candidate orders a bespoke power suit for the campaign’s final debate, but it’s clearly the play itself t…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:08PMMonday, September 28, 2015
For nearly a quarter century, Deaf West Theatre has been pioneering opportunities for deaf actors and audiences to share theater experiences, incorporating sign language and projected text …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:50PMFriday, February 13, 2015
In Disney’s new live-action “Cinderella,” four mice are ballooned into elegant white horses, two lizards are yanked by their tails to serve as makeshift footmen, and an oblivious old g…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMSaturday, January 31, 2015
On Aug. 3, 2012, standup comedian Tig Notaro scrapped the set she was planning to deliver at Los Angeles’ Largo theater and instead tried something more personal. “Hello, I have cancer,�…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:28PMFriday, July 4, 2014
Tina Turner has better legs, and Mick Jagger’s got more experience electrifying the crowds. Still, when it comes to singing septuagenarians, it’s hard to top (what remains of) Monty Pyth…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:43PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
Let’s say you want to shag a sexy British indie rocker. “Song One” not only instructs you on how to go about it, but also suggests your lucky score could inspire the first track on his…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:09AM 
