Tuesday, February 1, 2022
In answer to the question of whether it's possible to separate the art from the artist, "MJ" performs a slick, crotch-grabbing sidestep. Packed with nearly 40 hits from Michael Jackson's irr…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2022
Passions were never in short supply in Lynn Nottage's 2003 play "Intimate Apparel," where loneliness, longing and hope hover in every scene. In the latest, long-in-the-making collaboration b…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 26, 2022
The playwright Dominique Morisseau knows what she is doing. That's clear not only because she says it so convincingly in her Playbill note for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of "Skeleto…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Playwright Dominique Morisseau has a lot going on right now " but then, she's just following the advice that the late Chadwick Boseman once gave her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft"…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 12, 2022
"It just turned into triage." That's how Anne Quart describes the past few weeks on Broadway. As senior VP of production and co-producer at Disney Theatrical, Quart saw first-hand the chaoti…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Robin de Jesús is a three-time Tony Award nominee who's currently co-starring in "Tick, Tick… Boom!," one of this year's film awards season contenders. But de Jesús will be the first…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:06PM[SHARE]Friday, January 7, 2022
No one stages something set across mountainous ski slopes in a 251-seat, three-sided theater without a sense of humor. Which is why director Michael Longhurst has attached the bold and perky…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Peter Dinklage was never very interested in playing the lead role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" " until a new musical adaptation of the story got rid of the fake nose that has come to define the c…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:26PM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2021
In the midst of the deadly dull 1950s, Hollywood celebs Cary Grant, Claire Booth Luce and Aldous Huxley escape their ennui by dropping acid. No serious sex is involved and no one rushes out …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:02PM[SHARE]Ever since Bob Fosse cast a never-better Liza Minnelli in his Oscar-winning re-imagining of the musical "Cabaret," revivals of the original musical have leaned toward being "All About Sally.…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:44AM[SHARE]Friday, December 10, 2021
Like all historical plays, James Graham's latest, now playing at the Young Vic in London, is as much about the time in which it's written as the time depicted. His version of the 2015 docume…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:28PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 9, 2021
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with "Company," their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friend…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 8, 2021
At a moment of the highest possible tension, a character shoots a puppet. What makes that not just exciting, but truly extraordinary, is that you feel the entire audience shudder. "We're not…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 7, 2021
The cast of the new Broadway revival of "Company" was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical's legendary composer, Stephen Sondh…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 5, 2021
A face smothered in banana cream has already sprung out from behind a refrigerator door. A silicone breast plate has been scorched over a stovetop. A man dressed like Margaret Thatcher on he…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 2, 2021
Bestseller though it is " 10 million copies and counting " it's fair to say that "Life of Pi," the extraordinary story of a shipwrecked 17-year-old who did (or maybe didn't) spend 227 days a…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]For audience members checking in at the final dress rehearsal of NBC's "Annie Live!" on Dec. 1, there was an additional stop along the usual security gauntlet. Between the airport-style meta…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2021
A sandwich has always been a kind of vehicle, ingredients riding between sliced bread. Lynn Nottage improbably turns the lunchtime staple into the storytelling engine of "Clyde's," her decep…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Uzo Aduba does not play a great white shark in Lynn Nottage's new Broadway comedy "Clyde's" " but her role in the show does make her think, somewhat surprisingly, of "Jaws." Listen to this w…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 18, 2021
Alice Childress' timely play "Trouble in Mind" is finally getting its Broadway debut " after a 65-year wait. The late playwright's first full-length work, about discrimination and imbalanced…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]"Paradise Square," an ambitious new musical heading to Broadway in March, is a fictionalized historical take on the Five Points area of Manhattan and the social forces leading up to the viol…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Is it possible that Lady Di might have loved "Diana, The Musical"? We're talking about the princess who surprised Covent Garden with a duet to Billy Idol's "Uptown Girl," a brash and unsettl…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 14, 2021
Director John Doyle's electrifying staging of "Assassins," Stephen Sondheim's macabre masterpiece about our national infatuation with fame and our appetite for violence, is a revival to die …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 11, 2021
If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh ("School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play") and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York C…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The new Off Broadway play "Morning Sun" was written for Edie Falco " and it's not the most comfortable thing for her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: "It was disarmin…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 4, 2021
The djembe drum is the sacred heartbeat of West Africa, a powerful instrument conveying messages of struggle and liberation for African people. Traditionally used by griots to connect histor…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Stunning performances from Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland humanize Simon Stephens' new play "Morning Sun," an earnest if bland love letter to a kind, selfless but fundamentally un…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PM[SHARE]"Young hearts, to yourself be true." It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never sang along with Candi Staton. But among the many things that the frankly sensational "Pride…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 27, 2021
The musical "Caroline, or Change" is back on Broadway for the first time since its captivating original production closed in 2004. The best theater revivals highlight the relevance of classi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 26, 2021
The first thing audiences see at the new Broadway revival of "Caroline, or Change" is a statue of a Confederate soldier that, early on in the show, gets torn down in an act of protest. It's …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:13PM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2021
From "42nd Street" onwards, backstage stories were once a staple in the theater, and while there was often a shark or two, they were usually only of the loan variety. But in the West End pla…
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