If you think there's a lot going on onstage in "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club," you should see what's going on backstage. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: Speaking on th…
The relationship is captivating. The energy flowing effortlessly between them means you instantly feel their connection, their shared affection, their give and take. It's by far the stronges…
A more-than-respectable entry in the endless parade of movies-to-musicals, this genuinely funny, effervescently performed pre-Broadway take on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis dark comedy "Death Bec…
Are we back yet? That's the question Broadway has been asking for the past three years, as the theater industry emerged from lockdown into a harsh new reality of rising costs and slow-to-ret…
Jessica Lange has starred on Broadway before " winning a Tony for her most recent appearance there in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 2016. But according to Lange, now back on Broadway in…
Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 animated film "Spirited Away" won everything from the Oscar for Best Animated Feature to Berlin's Golden Bear. That there's an audience for a stage version was evidence…
The new musical "Lempicka" has inspired a love-it-or-hate-it response from critics and audiences alike " and its two newly-minted Tony-nominated actors, Eden Espinosa and Amber Iman, love th…
When, at a dramatic peak, the lead character is running for her life and she's teetering on a perilously tiny walkway on the outside of a very tall building, and terrified, certain thoughts …
With the annual announcement of the Tony nominations comes the yearly list of snubs and surprises, as this season's shows see their dreams realized " or their hopes dashed " and prognosticat…
Variety's Awards Circuit is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year. It features the official predictions for the Oscars, Emmys, Grammys, and Tony Awards, cur…
Sufjan Stevens's indie folk concept album "Illinois" (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullma…
Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a "theater rat." So it's natural she'd be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby," which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous f…
Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater's starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, th…
When a character in the new musical "The Heart of Rock and Roll" tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: "Oh, my god. It's cardbo…
In Peter Morgan's tantalizing but disappointing new play "Patriots," Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a…
When Eddie Redmayne's slithering Emcee assures the audience at "Cabaret" that "here, life is beautiful," he's telling a half-truth. The August Wilson Theater, done up like the Kit Kat Club f…
"Hell's Kitchen" opened on Broadway on April 20, 2024. The following is Aramide Tinubu's review of the show's Off Broadway premiere published on Nov. 19, 2023. The credits and copy have been…
There's a moment in David Adjmi's play "Stereophonic" when a discordant, mid-'70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first time, with…
A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat. Â But "Suffs," which tells the story of the final push …
A flight of imagination born of the trippy 1970s, "The Wiz" can shoulder a lot of interpretation. Sidney Lumet's shadowy film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, sets the Black spin on…
Grant Gustin, the former CW superhero now making his Broadway debut in the musical "Water for Elephants," has been headlining his current, critically praised stage gig since it began preview…
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka " but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be fa…
According to theater lore, it was Elizabeth I who demanded Shakespeare write another play about Falstaff, which, allegedly, is why he wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Queen might have…
Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination. S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," about a cadre of down-and-out boys, has been read by millions of rest…