Wednesday, April 21, 2021
For Cuban American playwright Nilo Cruz, every line is poetry, and every couplet speaks to the socio-politics of his roots. That could mean the lyrical "Anna in the Tropics," the play that w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 13, 2021
In response to the shooting in Atlanta and the rise in hate crimes it underscored, Asian American theater artists took action, organizing support and self-care programs for the Asian America…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Theater historian or gonzo journalist? Jennifer Ashley Tepper, the author of "The Untold Stories of Broadway" series of books, thinks of herself as both. "Because I put my own discoveries an…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, March 19, 2021
Nobody " literally nobody " knows when or how Broadway will reopen. But now, a year into a shutdown that began March 12, 2020, the road map to recovery has begun to take shape. The pace and …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 18, 2021
In recent weeks, New Yorkers might have stumbled upon a socially distanced pop-up performance by Jon Batiste at the Javits Center, or one by Patti Smith at the Brooklyn Museum. They were bot…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 16, 2021
In the Williamstown Theatre Festival's new audio version of "Paradise Blue," Blair Underwood gets the chance to revisit to a role he's been wanting to get back to since he first played it in…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 3, 2021
The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant " the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages " isn't exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, the ar…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Jake Gyllenhaal is nominated for three Tony Awards, one as an actor in the play "Sea Wall/A Life" and two as a producer (with his company Nine Stories) of "Sea Wall/A Life" and "Slave Play."…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 16, 2021
There are plenty of juicy backstages tales from both Hollywood and Broadway in "Mike Nichols: A Life," the new biography of director-producer-performer Mike Nichols. And the juiciest of them…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 2, 2021
After winning an Academy Award for his screenplay of "12 Years a Slave" and creating the ABC series "American Crime," John Ridley has a lot going on " from an upcoming Blumhouse paranormal t…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Teyonah Parris waited seven years between theater gigs " but she wishes she hadn't. "That is too long!" the "WandaVision" actor declared on the latest episode of "Stagecraft," Variety's thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:51PM[SHARE]Monday, January 11, 2021
The rat really raked it in " for a good cause. Inspired by social media and co-produced and co-created by Broadway pros including Lucy Moss ("Six"), Jeremy O. Harris ("Slave Play"), Tituss B…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2021
The new film "One Night in Miami" began life as a successful play " but New Yorkers might not know that, because despite accolades in Los Angeles and London, the play never got a production …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Audiences won't see Ruben Santiago-Hudson on screen in the new Netflix adaptation of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," but theater fans can rest assured that the writer-actor-director " one of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2020
A Hollywood director unexpectedly pops into an English regional theater to see a show. The actors get wind of his presence, thereby unleashing a chaotic, show-stealing performance of one-upm…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
During its Broadway run, "The Prom" was something of a fan-favorite among theater lovers " and nobody knows that better than Ariana DeBose. She was one those fans. Listen to this week's "…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
One of the most prominent legacy Black theaters in America is transforming itself, and it's more than just a pandemic-era pivot. In the coming years, Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minn. " th…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:19PM[SHARE]A series of immersive audioplays performed and mixed live, using tech developed by theatrical sound designers and engineers. A summer festival's entire season of new plays and classics relea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2020
Jeremy O. Harris knows exactly how big his plans are: "I think for me to call myself ambitious would be an understatement," he acknowledged on a recent call from Rome. But the playwright, pe…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:39PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
When the Tony-nominated actor Arian Moayed wanted to write, direct and independently produce a new episodic drama-thriller, he turned to his friends and colleagues on Broadway. And Broadway …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
After "Moulin Rouge!" on Broadway, could "Romeo + Juliet" be the next Baz Luhrmann film to get the stage treatment? Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: Maybe, according t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2020
Would any time be a good time for the Tony Awards this year? With the country gripped by a pandemic, a presidential election and an overdue reckoning on racial justice " and a Broadway indus…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2020
Broadway may be shuttered due to the pandemic, but Variety is keeping its annual tradition of celebrating the world of stage with a digital event, "Legit! The Road Back to Broadway," present…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
With the shutdown throwing a shadow of uncertainty over all of Broadway, the unprecedented hiatus has the potential to be particularly destabilizing for the season's new and previewing produ…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
If you've got a hit musical on your hands, there's a natural order to things: First you play the West End and Broadway, then you play everywhere else. But not "Six." By the time the new …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Concord Music Group used to play a bit part in theatrical licensing, but in just three years it's emerged as a giant in the small but powerful industry. Since 2017, the independent music…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
James Corden has spent the last week prepping to host the Tony Awards " and rehearsals keep threatening to make him cry. Listen to this week's podcast below: "We had maybe 100 people arrive …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Playwright Anchuli Felicia King dismantles the Asian market in this misfiring satire at London's Royal Court Theatre. "White Pearl" makes a case that those seeking to make inroads into the F…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 15, 2019
August Wilson famously disavowed the idea of an all-black "Death of a Salesman." In 1996, he declared any such staging "an assault on our presence and our difficult but honorable history in …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PM[SHARE]Broadway's "Tootsie" has turned into one of this season's Tony Awards frontrunners, winning raves for its deftly funny update of potentially problematic source material " and for a firecrack…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Aaron Sorkin remembers treasuring a favorite scene in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," and in the 1962 movie version that starred Gregory Peck. But you won't find that scene in his hit Bro…
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