Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:57PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
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 09:00PMMonday, December 19, 2022
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,” no…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, December 15, 2022
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 includi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMWednesday, December 14, 2022
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 part…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:39AMTuesday, December 13, 2022
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 i…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:42PMAfter 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:44AMSunday, December 11, 2022
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 contempor…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, December 8, 2022
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 09:00PMYou 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 y…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:30PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
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 w…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PMThe 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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:11PMMonday, December 5, 2022
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 Beaut…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:45AMSaturday, December 3, 2022
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 refra…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:20PMSunday, November 27, 2022
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 06:00PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
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 J…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:44PMMonday, November 21, 2022
“Marley was dead, to begin with.” That opening line always gives me the chills, and never more so than in this one-man (plus spooky specter) show featuring that consummate artist of many…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, November 17, 2022
Shakespeare’s Juliet singing Britney Spears’ “Oops…I Did It Again” is certainly a surprising and unexpected juxtaposition. While there is every reason to be skeptical of a Shakes…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMThe use of the word “fuck” as a statement occurs approximately 62 times in Will Arbery’s new play, “Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,” and “Haha” or “Hahahaha” appears approxim…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:27PMSunday, November 13, 2022
Mike Birbiglia’s solo play “The Old Man and the Pool” opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Broadway on Nov. 13, 2022. The following is Peter Debruge’s review of the same producti…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, November 10, 2022
The prospect of dying by age 16 hardly seems like obvious fodder for musical comedy. But “Kimberly Akimbo,” transferring to Broadway after an acclaimed run at the Atlantic Theater Compan…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
In the 25 years since “The Lion King” opened on Broadway, the show has traveled all over the world and played to more than 110 million people. But there’s one thing that often doesn’…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMThursday, November 3, 2022
Writer-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist’s coming-of-age in the ’70s, “Almost Famous,” lands pretty much intact in Broadway’s latest …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, October 27, 2022
Who better to tell your story than … you? Gabriel Byrne won kudos for his intimate memoir “Walking with Ghosts,” which he subsequently adapted into this heartfelt solo show now playi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMYou can take anything and write a song about it. Whether it needs singing about is another question entirely. On the evidence of multitudes of recent musicals, it’s one too few creative te…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:18PMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Samuel L. Jackson is back on Broadway for the first time in a decade in “The Piano Lesson,” the new production of the August Wilson play directed by Jackson’s wife, LaTanya Richardson …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:48PMThursday, October 20, 2022
It is a testament to the acuity of Suzan-Lori Parks’ imagination and powers of perception that “Topdog/Underdog” feels as vital and electric today as it did 20 years ago. The first Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThe Royal Shakespeare Company doesn’t usually sell out an entire run before opening, especially with a new play. But then, it has never had the audacity to stage one of the world’s most …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Charm, a sadly rare theatrical quality, is scarcely a fashionable theatrical virtue, but it’s nonetheless valuable. And, to audiences’ evident delight, it’s there in spades in director…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:03PMFriday, October 14, 2022
The new musical “Kimberly Akimbo” has already beguiled New York critics. Now it has to win over Broadway audiences. Based on David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2001 play of the same name, “Ki…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30AMThursday, October 13, 2022
Every family has a skeleton or two in its closet. The starry new Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “The Piano Lesson” has a whole houseful of ghosts. Dire…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:57PM 
