Kandi Burruss is a reality TV star, a music industry veteran, and an entrepreneur " and now, she's a Broadway producer. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: A former mains…
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it." OK, that's the wrong play since it's a line from "Macbeth," but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey's performance in the new London producti…
The real-life story behind the Olivier Award-winning musical "Operation Mincemeat" isn't just stranger than fiction. It's so strange that some parts of the story proved just too much for aud…
There's a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal " or for that matter, the political " and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace. A separate …
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play "English" opened on Broadway just days after Donald Trump took office for the second time " which was notable timing for a show that had it roots in the early…
Unlike casual language learners " say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo " for the characters in Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer-winning "English," language acquisition feels imperative.…
For Leslye Headland, the well-received Broadway play "Cult of Love" (pictured above) serves as a turning point and a culmination. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: For …
As urgent and vital as it is, an investigation into international angles on climate change doesn't sound remotely theatrical, let alone a race-to-the finish thriller. But that is precisely w…
A Japanese musical adaptation of the hit manga and anime franchise "Sailor Moon" will launch a North American tour this spring, playing nearly 20 cities on a route that begins in Pittsburgh …
On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame " a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important …
The actor Joy Woods never thought much about "Gypsy" " at least not until she was cast in the show opposite Audra McDonald in one of the buzziest Broadway revivals of the season. Listen to t…
There's a cozy ease that permeates "All In," in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon…
"You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they're the ones who cheer when the other team scores." So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley'…
The Shed isn't a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it's hosted some of New York City's starriest stage endeavors"from Stephen Sondheim's fin…
A century after the novel first hit shelves, "The Great Gatsby" is the bee's knees all over again. Just take a look at the New York theater scene, where adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
There's an unlikely connection between Louis Armstrong and Beetlejuice " or at least there is for James Monroe Iglehart, the Tony-winning Broadway star of the new musical "A Wonderful World:…
In the new Broadway musical "Death Becomes Her," a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover. Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two vain…
There's so much to recommend "Swept Away" " about two brothers from a religious family who get trapped on an ill-fated whaling ship with a crew of doomed heathens " that it seems unkind, or …
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make "Tammy Faye" divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoo…
Are we human, or are we… robots? "Maybe Happy Ending," a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question " or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it mea…
Megan Hilty always knew "Death Becomes Her" would make a great musical " and now she's headlining the show on Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The fan-favori…
In his latest Broadway project, Emmy winner Darren Criss ("The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story") and his co-star, Helen J. Shen, play retired, robotic "helperbots" i…
You'd think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families' senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravit…
Back during Nicole Scherzinger's run in the West End revival of "Sunset Boulevard""the show that won her an Olivier Award and has now brought her to Broadway to reprise her performance"she n…
The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of "Stagecraft," Variety's theater podcast. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" po…