It's been 20 years since Valerie Cherish booked "The Comeback." "The Comeback," the HBO satire of reality TV and the entertainment industry " a show that confused audiences in its moment but…
Jason Segel and Seth Rogen, who both emerged from the Judd Apatow comic universe, are now two of the funniest multi-hyphenates in the industry. Segel, with Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein,…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This story contains spoilers for "Outlook Good," Season 3, Episode 1 of "And Just Like That," now streaming on HBO Max. And just like that, Rosie O'Donnell has made a splas…
Sybil Schneiderman, the breakout character on Hulu's new sitcom "Mid-Century Modern," is discussed, amply, before she is seen. "The woman could probably make it another 20 years just on cott…
If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can't think of him. Well, "the masses" may be a stretch " the new production …
"Cult of Love" begins with a tableau so close to perfect that one can see it shattering even before it happens. The Dahl family have come together to celebrate Christmas, with three of the f…
As she sings the final verse of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger turns her face skyward. Her arc…
Playing the character of "DHH," the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins "Yellow Face," the new production of David Henry Hwang's play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. …
At various points in "An Enemy of the People," the Jeremy Strong-led production of Henrik Ibsen's classic, the greatest entertainment comes from watching the faces opposite you. That's not a…
Through the second act of "A Little Life," the titanic Ivo van Hove-directed play that premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House on Oct. 20, the protagonist lite…
In Shakespeare in the Park's new production of "Richard III," Danai Gurira plays the title role less as a politician than as a performer. Gurira's Richard is a mastermind of chaos at the cou…
The set of the new Broadway production of "American Buffalo" at Circle in the Square is choked with the unwanted artifacts of recent history. The show's two acts take place in a junk shop gl…
"Plaza Suite" practically demands to be played straight. Neil Simon's look at three romantic couples facing down the passage of time is sharp and knowing, but it is, crucially, earnest. Each…
Your inclination towards "Schmigadoon!," at least in its early going, will likely be determined by your reaction to its title. If you think it's a clever, charming wink to "Brigadoon" " the …
By now, more than a year deep into the social disruption wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had several examples of awards shows trying their best to accomplish something like the tra…
The Golden Globes are facing down a scandal that has felt, in moments over the past week, practically existential, with Los Angeles Times reporting indicating both a systemic and corrupt sel…
Andra Day ("The United States vs. Billie Holiday") and Leslie Odom Jr. ("One Night in Miami") sat down for a virtual chat for Variety's Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For mor…
The last time James Corden hosted the Tony Awards, the CBS late-night host was understandably subsumed by events onstage and off; not merely were his last bits on the Tonys stage, in 2016, o…
Bob Fosse's signature style as a director and choreographer was stripped-down and then askew, removing familiar excesses of movement or film language so that he might replace them with entir…
This year’s Tony Awards seemed to address the times in which we live with a certain amount of urgency, as all awards shows have done over the course of the Trump era. But give the thea…