2,695 stories by "Gordon Cox"
In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's new audio version of "Paradise Blue," Blair Underwood gets the chance to revisit to a role he's been wanting to get back to since he first played it in…
The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant " the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages " isn't exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, the ar…
Jake Gyllenhaal is nominated for three Tony Awards, one as an actor in the play "Sea Wall/A Life" and two as a producer (with his company Nine Stories) of "Sea Wall/A Life" and "Slave Play."…
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in "Mike Nichols: A Life," the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them…
After winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave" and creating the ABC series "American Crime," John Ridley has a lot going on " from an upcoming Blumhouse paranormal t…
Teyonah Parris waited seven years between theater gigs " but she wishes she hadn't. "That is too long!" the "WandaVision" actor declared on the latest episode of "Stagecraft," Variety's thea…
The rat really raked it in " for a good cause. Inspired by social media and co-produced and co-created by Broadway pros including Lucy Moss ("Six"), Jeremy O. Harris ("Slave Play"), Tituss B…
The new film "One Night in Miami" began life as a successful play " but New Yorkers might not know that, because despite accolades in Los Angeles and London, the play never got a production …
Audiences won't see Ruben Santiago-Hudson on screen in the new Netflix adaptation of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," but theater fans can rest assured that the writer-actor-director " one of the…
A Hollywood director unexpectedly pops into an English regional theater to see a show. The actors get wind of his presence, thereby unleashing a chaotic, show-stealing performance of one-upm…
During its Broadway run, "The Prom" was something of a fan-favorite among theater lovers " and nobody knows that better than Ariana DeBose. She was one those fans. Listen to this week's "…
One of the most prominent legacy Black theaters in America is transforming itself, and it's more than just a pandemic-era pivot. In the coming years, Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minn. " th…
A series of immersive audioplays performed and mixed live, using tech developed by theatrical sound designers and engineers. A summer festival's entire season of new plays and classics relea…
Jeremy O. Harris knows exactly how big his plans are: "I think for me to call myself ambitious would be an understatement," he acknowledged on a recent call from Rome. But the playwright, pe…
When the Tony-nominated actor Arian Moayed wanted to write, direct and independently produce a new episodic drama-thriller, he turned to his friends and colleagues on Broadway. And Broadway …
After "Moulin Rouge!" on Broadway, could "Romeo + Juliet" be the next Baz Luhrmann film to get the stage treatment? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: Maybe, according t…
Would any time be a good time for the Tony Awards this year? With the country gripped by a pandemic, a presidential election and an overdue reckoning on racial justice " and a Broadway indus…
Broadway may be shuttered due to the pandemic, but Variety is keeping its annual tradition of celebrating the world of stage with a digital event, "Legit! The Road Back to Broadway," present…
With the shutdown throwing a shadow of uncertainty over all of Broadway, the unprecedented hiatus has the potential to be particularly destabilizing for the season's new and previewing produ…
If you've got a hit musical on your hands, there's a natural order to things: First you play the West End and Broadway, then you play everywhere else. But not "Six." By the time the new …
Concord Music Group used to play a bit part in theatrical licensing, but in just three years it's emerged as a giant in the small but powerful industry. Since 2017, the independent music…
James Corden has spent the last week prepping to host the Tony Awards " and rehearsals keep threatening to make him cry. Listen to this week's podcast below: "We had maybe 100 people arrive …
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King dismantles the Asian market in this misfiring satire at London's Royal Court Theatre. "White Pearl" makes a case that those seeking to make inroads into the F…
August Wilson famously disavowed the idea of an all-black "Death of a Salesman." In 1996, he declared any such staging "an assault on our presence and our difficult but honorable history in …
Broadway's "Tootsie" has turned into one of this season's Tony Awards frontrunners, winning raves for its deftly funny update of potentially problematic source material " and for a firecrack…
