Monday, October 3, 2022
What gives life value and makes it worth our daily toil? What does it mean to need another person, and what do we owe each other? It is a testament to the brilliant craft of Martyna Majok's …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2022
In a radical departure from his usual intellectually esoteric style, Tom Stoppard's new play is an intensely personal family drama. "Leopoldstadt," which takes its name from the Jewish quart…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
There is an opera of "The Crucible." Written by Robert Ward, it won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize. But this is not the opera… or is it? Lyndsey Turner's grandiloquent National Theatre production…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Madison Wells Live, the stage entertainment division of Gigi Pritzker's Madison Wells Media ("The Eyes of Tammy Faye"), has emerged from theater's lockdown phase with a lineup of brewing the…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Broadway hasn't been the same since the pandemic. Just consider "The Phantom of the Opera." The recent closing announcement of the landmark long-runner underscored just how unpredictable the…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PM[SHARE]After a bunch of peppy up-tempo numbers, you just know there is going to be at least one ballad somewhere in "The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation," the new musical with Broadway aspirations pre…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PM[SHARE]For the actor Gregg Mozgala, his Broadway debut in "Cost of Living" isn't just a step forward for him " it's a step forward for all of Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podc…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
Jonathan Spector's 2018 comedy "Eureka Day" first attracted attention in productions in Berkeley and Brooklyn. But in its sharp U.K. premiere starring Helen Hunt, this often very funny satir…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Few theater performances are as indelible as the original Broadway production of "Into the Woods," which raised a generation of theater fans through a legendary American Playhouse recording …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 30, 2022
Get thee to Arden " or at least to the Arden depicted in the glorious, delightful and big-hearted musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," created as part of the Public Theater'…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]The composer ("Once Upon a Mattress"), young adult author ("Freaky Friday") and philanthropist Mary Rodgers wanted to write a memoir that was candid, cutting, dishy and vanity-free " the exa…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The new musical "American Prophet" is now in the midst of its world premiere run at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Next stop: Broadway? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast belo…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2022
Taking an overly respectful and frankly miscalculated approach to its source materials " the 2003 roman à clef novel and the 2006 Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway-starring film " the new mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 2, 2022
After nine seasons on the hit TV series "The Blacklist," actor Amir Arison's next step is starring on Broadway in "The Kite Runner." Which is pretty surprising for a guy who'd decided he was…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2022
Playwright Matthew Spangler's adaptation of "The Kite Runner," Khaled Hosseini's bestselling 2005 novel about the friendship of two boys living parallel lives in Afghanistan, is a heartbreak…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Most people know Jodi Picoult as the busy author of more than 25 bestselling books, including "My Sister's Keeper," "Small Great Things" and "The Pact." But more recently, she's collaborated…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 16, 2022
Before Danai Gurira returns this fall as the Wakandan general Okoye in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," she's scheming and murdering her way onto the English throne in director Robert O'Har…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 15, 2022
No one saw it coming. Reworking Goldoni's 18th-century comedy "A Servant of Two Masters" didn't look like the recipe for a transatlantic comedy smash, but that was before Richard Bean turned…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2022
The aesthetic is austere, the emotional range fiercely compressed and the intent is relentlessly pure, but that's only to be expected in Samuel Beckett's "The Seagull." Wait, what? Obviously…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 6, 2022
A place for everything and everything in its place. Although that maxim about neatness might apply to the intentions of the characters living in the English country vicarage in "The Southbur…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 5, 2022
The playwright James Ijames is no stranger to audacious choices. His adaptation of "Hamlet," "Fat Ham," sets the story at a backyard barbecue thrown by a Black family in the South " and reim…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 26, 2022
Jessica Lange was once asked if there couldn't have been someone on the set of the painfully overwrought Southern gothic movie, Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart," who could have got everyo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Audiences already know Joaquina Kalukango as an actor onstage ("Slave Play") and on screen ("One Night in Miami") " and on the most recent Tony Awards telecast, when she capped off a roof-ra…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 14, 2022
There's nothing like mechanical malfunction to make you want to break into song. Though that may well be unique to "Bruce" " unless you can name another musical with a spectacularly unruly p…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2022
Broadway celebrated its first full season after the COVID lockdown with the 75th annual Tony Awards, hosted by a newly minted Oscar winner and spotlighting stage work that included a media-d…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2022
The pool of people who vote for the Tony Awards is a small one " and this year, it's probably even smaller. As Broadway gears up for its big night June 12, the industry's annual prognosticat…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Phylicia Rashad, Mary-Louise Parker, LaChanze: All of these 2022 Tony Award nominees are Broadway regulars, and they've had plenty of experience with nominations…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]The Tony Awards Landmarks on This Year's Nominations List In a Broadway season that was the first after the devastating 15-month shutdown caused by the pandemic, the Tony nominations list en…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PM[SHARE]In a Broadway season filled with star turns and individual standouts, maybe the biggest breakout performance came from … ensemble casts. From the queens of "Six" to the Thoughts of "A Stra…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Playwright Paula Vogel won a Pulitzer Prize for her 25-year-old play "How I Learned to Drive," which has been seen in productions around the world and is now on Broadway in a staging nominat…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:41PM[SHARE]After the Great Recession of '08 " not to mention anxiety about the current economy " will a Reagan-era comedy about insider trading and the glory of greed get the same laughs? Can it sing, …
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