Wednesday, May 7, 2025
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of “Giant” — and it’s a moment indicative of the blissful timing in …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28PMThursday, May 1, 2025
It’s been a busy season on Broadway, crowded with big stars, boffo hits — and strong contenders for awards attention. This year’s Tony Awards nominations seemed particularly hard to pr…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:20AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn’t know each other before they started working together on the score for “Real Women Have Curves.” …
SOURCE: Variety at 05:58PMSunday, April 27, 2025
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical “Real Women Have Curves.” With the pulsating song “Make It Work” thes…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMUnlike the mobile British corpse in “Operation Mincemeat,” the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical “Dead Outlaw” has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning W…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. “Jersey Boys” ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we’ve had “Summer: The …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, April 24, 2025
What ever happened to Gilbert and Sullivan? Once theatrical icons, Gilbert and Sullivan — co-creators of famed comic operettas including “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “The Mikado” — have…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, April 23, 2025
With the Broadway arrival of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” a stage prequel to the popular Netflix series, comes the question: Will this stand-alone tale appeal — and then satisf…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:54AMMonday, April 21, 2025
Spelunking is not exactly a go-to subject for a musical. Yet Adam Guettel and Tina Landau saw something in the true story of Floyd Collins, a cave explorer who famously got trapped undergrou…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, April 16, 2025
Idina Menzel is back on Broadway in a new musical — and for the Tony-winning actor, now starring in “Redwood,” it’s exactly the kind of work she loves most. Listen to this week’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 12:16AMMonday, April 14, 2025
The first word spoken in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is “sex,” a portent of things to come. Mr. Smith (Gabriel Ebert), a high school English teacher, has been tasked with handling …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThursday, April 10, 2025
On the surface, “Smash” is a new backstage musical about the making of the fictional Broadway musical “Bombshell: The Marilyn Monroe Story,” but for diehard fans of the cult-classic …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
After three Broadway revues of Stephen Sondheim’s music you would think a fourth wouldn’t offer anything fresh, have any surprises, or be anything special. Think again. “Old Friends”…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMMonday, April 7, 2025
Following on the high heels of the 2023 hit film “Barbie,” “Boop! The Musical” likewise aims to remake and rebrand another dated pop character for contemporary times and audiences. U…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, April 3, 2025
Like television journalist Edward R. Murrow’s historic broadcasts, the stage adaptation of the 2005 film “Good Night, and Good Luck” has a seriousness of purpose that is again dram…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:59PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
The creators of “Stranger Things: The First Shadow” went into the project with one goal top of mind: They wanted to make theater legitimately scary. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraf…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:58PMMonday, March 31, 2025
Bob Odenkirk has, in recent years, been best-known for the role of Jimmy McGill, a desperate lawyer constantly attempting to find an advantage — ethics be damned — on TV’s “Breaking …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:30PMThursday, March 27, 2025
Oscar Wilde’s infamous antihero Dorian Gray probably would’ve loved to have a barrage of cameras pointed at him, reflecting his gorgeous visage. This is exactly what Kip Williams’ tech…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
Ever since the theater industry’s post-lockdown return, one question has loomed large: When will Broadway return to the heights of the last full season before the pandemic, when both sales…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:54PMThursday, March 20, 2025
An astonishing, loopy and very true World War II story about Great Britain tricking Germany into believing false invasion plans has been the source material for non-fiction books and movies …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Entering “Buena Vista Social Club” is like stepping into a heady world of the senses, of heightened emotions, and of passionate music and dance. The Social Club was a real place for loca…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 18, 2025
One actress is a newcomer making her Broadway debut after winning raves out of town. The other is a Tony-winning favorite, back on Broadway for the first time in almost a decade. Together, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:14PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Kandi Burruss is a reality TV star, a music industry veteran, and an entrepreneur — and now, she’s a Broadway producer. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: A former…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:18PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new L…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30PMThe real-life story behind the Olivier Award-winning musical “Operation Mincemeat” isn’t just stranger than fiction. It’s so strange that some parts of the story proved just too much…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMThursday, February 13, 2025
There’s a powerful appeal to the idea of leaving behind the turbulence of the personal — or for that matter, the political — and escaping to a place of beauty, safety and solace. A sep…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” opened on Broadway just days after Donald Trump took office for the second time — which was notable timing for a show that had it roots in the…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMThursday, January 23, 2025
Unlike casual language learners — say, in a high school French class, or on Duolingo — for the characters in Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning “English,” language acquisition feels i…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
For Leslye Headland, the well-received Broadway play “Cult of Love” (pictured above) serves as a turning point and a culmination. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:50PMFriday, January 17, 2025
As urgent and vital as it is, an investigation into international angles on climate change doesn’t sound remotely theatrical, let alone a race-to-the finish thriller. But that is precisely…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMWednesday, January 15, 2025
A Japanese musical adaptation of the hit manga and anime franchise “Sailor Moon” will launch a North American tour this spring, playing nearly 20 cities on a route that begins in Pittsbu…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AM 
