The cannibalist startup in "Sweeney Todd" kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemeat. F…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The addition of "bad" to the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest maximalist spectacle, formerly known simply as "Cinderella" when it premiered for a short-lived run on the West End in 2021…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard has a Broadway success on his hands with "Leopoldstadt," his (very) loosely autobiographical play now in the sixth month of a long run currently set to clo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PM[SHARE]It's hard to believe, but Bob Fosse's definitive signature musical "Dancin'" has never been revived on Broadway since its Tony Award-winning debut in 1978. Huge kudos, then, to director-chor…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PM[SHARE]Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical "Parade" has now fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Since Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, is one of the finest, most detailed Shakespeare directors in the land, you could be forgiven for forgetting that he r…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PM[SHARE]There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd's version of Henrik Ibsen's drama "A Doll's House" " no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a curtain. Ther…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PM[SHARE]The new play "Pictures From Home" is Tony Award winner Nathan Lane's 25th Broadway show " and he's threatening not to come back for a 26th. "This may be the last one," Lane said on Stagecraf…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PM[SHARE]Currently one of the stars of "Star Trek: Discovery," Anthony Rapp has recently spent some time looking back and reliving his past. Off Broadway, he's starring in "Without You," his autobiog…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34PM[SHARE]Nice acting and sensitive direction characterize "Pictures From Home," the starry new Broadway production of Sharr White's meh family drama based on the photo-memoir by Larry Sultan. V…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35AM[SHARE]National Black Theatre is in the midst of a building itself a new home in Harlem " but then, the company has been in the business of building a home for 55 years. Listen to this week's "S…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:49PM[SHARE]If nothing else, you've got to admire the epic scope and ambition of "Fall on Your Knees," a two-part, six-hour adaptation of one of the most beloved Canadian novels of all time " Ann-Marie …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AM[SHARE]The Broadway musical "Beetlejuice" simply refused to die. After a 2019 eviction notice from its original theater and an unceremonious 2020 shuttering by the COVID-19 lockdown, the production…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]When Stephen McKinley Henderson talks about playwrights, he talks about music. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: "August Wilson is, of course, the blues," he said on th…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PM[SHARE]"I don't want realism. I want magic!" Blanche's famously desperate cry holds the key to most approaches to "A Streetcar Named Desire." Productions of Tennessee Williams' masterpiece tend to …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald knows her new Broadway show is surprising theatergoers. "Some people come to see 'Ohio State Murders' and they're taken aback by how I'm speaking or the words that I'm using,"…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PM[SHARE]Caesar meets Cleopatra, Stalin meets Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe meets the Kennedy brothers: Consequential connections all. So, too, is the meeting and eventual partnership arranged by savvy N…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]How well can you ever really know a person? Do you judge by their actions, their hopes or some combination? Like many city creatures, the New Yorkers of "Between Riverside and Crazy," now pl…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tectonic Theater Project, the 30-year-old company behind international stage successes "Gross Indecency" and "The Laramie Project," has unveiled an upcoming slate of projects including a New…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AM[SHARE]Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the 87-year-old regional-theater stalwart that has become a leading player in the theater industry's push to increase diversity, equity and inclusion, has partne…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39AM[SHARE]Delivering songs demanding freedom not only for the characters but the whole country under apartheid, the impassioned cast of the new musical "Mandela" (now premiering at the Young Vic in Lo…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PM[SHARE]After spending the last 30-plus years as an Off Broadway favorite, actor Deirdre O'Connell ("Becky Nurse of Salem," "Corsicana") walked away from the 2022 Tony Awards with a trophy for her w…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AM[SHARE]Taking a classic film comedy " especially one that plays fast and loose with gender and sexuality " and turning it into a big Broadway musical is far from a sure thing in these contemporary …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]It may be easy to take for granted that Audra McDonald, with six Tony Awards to her name, is capable of performances that creep delicately into your psyche and rattle around there as if clea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]You don't get more American than descending from one of the witches burned at the stake in Salem, Mass. Unless, that is, you're also an opioid addict in that same town during the Trump years…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]When Nickelodeon revived its popular kids series "Blue's Clues" in 2019, the show found its new host on Broadway. Josh Dela Cruz was doing eight shows a week in "Aladdin" when he won the par…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PM[SHARE]The entirely beguiling lightness of touch is remarkable. Staging the startlingly prescient, gender-swapping, time-traveling 1928 novel "Orlando," a lesser creative team would have gone to…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PM[SHARE]If you are looking to draw an audience into what seems like a typical biographical jukebox musical, starting and ending your drama in psychoanalysis is a great device. Then again, "A Beautif…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM[SHARE]The question at the heart of "Ain't No Mo'," the incendiary and incisive new comedy that opened on Broadway on Dec. 1, is riotously and fruitfully absurd. Consider it a gleeful reframing of …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PM[SHARE]As defined by boy bands like BTS and girl groups like Blackpink, K-pop " gayo " is a Korean musical genre ('brand' is better) where Instiz all-kills (chart domination) is essenti…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]The new Museum of Broadway, which opened recently in Manhattan's theater district, has a list of producer credits just like it's a Broadway show. At the top of the list are co-founders Julie…
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