Thursday, 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 01:57PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
The Tony-winning Broadway revival of “Take Me Out” returns this fall, and Jesse Williams is back with it. In Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play, the “Grey’s Anatomy” actor plays a bir…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMTuesday, October 11, 2022
How is a Pulitzer Prize-winning play like a Marvel superhero? Ask Suzan-Lori Parks, the acclaimed writer whose 2001 outing “Topdog/Underdog” was her first show to arrive on Broadway afte…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:52PMMonday, October 10, 2022
Take two, and not a moment too soon. Lea Michele steps into one of Broadway’s most iconic roles, which in her mind — or at least the mind of Rachel Berry, the character she played in TV�…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMSunday, October 9, 2022
In the new Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” Wendell Pierce’s powerhouse performance firmly identifies Willy Loman as a tragic hero for these modern times. It’s a searing po…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, October 6, 2022
The opening moments of this exuberant, thought-provoking and radical revival of “1776” makes it clear who was missing from John Trumbull’s famous painting of the signers of the Declara…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Part of the instant appeal of “Friends” was that, from the get-go, the relationships between the members of the gang who hung out in the apartments above Central Perk felt not just likea…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:19PMMonday, 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’…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMSunday, 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, 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 prod…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:54PMWednesday, 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 bre…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, 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 unpredictab…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:44PMAfter 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 aspiratio…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:07PMFor 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 “Stagecr…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:30PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:39AMTuesday, 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 record…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:24PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThe 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 �…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:08PMTuesday, 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” podcas…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:29PMMonday, 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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 04:24PMTuesday, 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 de…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PMFriday, 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 he…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, 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�…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PMSaturday, 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00PMFriday, 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 Bea…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:21PMFriday, 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? O…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:46AMWednesday, 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 Southb…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:36PMTuesday, 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 �…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:48PMSunday, 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 go…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:01PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PMTuesday, 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 …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:35PM 
