Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Enraged by the British government charging the standard 15% sales tax on tickets for Live Aid, Bob Geldof (Craige Els) bullies his way into a meeting with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:28PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
The creators of “Illinoise,” the new stage show inspired by the 2005 Sufjan Stevens album “Illinois,” are the first to admit that the production isn’t a musical in the most traditi…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
When Sterlin Harjo, the co-creator of “Reservation Dogs,” started writing his first play with the other members of The 1491s, the sketch comedy troupe of which he was member, he and the …
SOURCE: Variety at 01:20PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
At first blush, the three-hour runtime of “Prayer for the French Republic,” playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway, seems appropriate. Though it obviously does not exist s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFresh off an early workshop of “The Light in the Piazza,” the actress Kelli O’Hara had a passing thought: What if there was an ambitious musical adaptation of “Days of Wine and Roses…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PMThursday, December 14, 2023
“We need something a little theatrical.” Boy, does excited Bob Newby (Christopher Buckley) get his wish. He’s trying to solve a staging problem in “The Dark of the Moon,” the schoo…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
For a long time the 1998 animated film “The Prince of Egypt” didn’t have an official stage adaptation. But that didn’t stop fans from putting on live versions of the musical anyway�…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:54PMSunday, December 10, 2023
Going (or not going) to the big dance has been an irresistible storyline for musicals from “Oklahoma!” to “The Prom.” The set-up inherently inspires social stress, romantic anxiety, …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Sara Bareilles has always spoken openly about the fact that her work on the musical “Waitress” changed her life. “My life is in two categories: It’s before and after ‘Waitress,’�…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:16PMTuesday, November 28, 2023
While the cast of the new Broadway production of “Spamalot” is cracking up audiences, they’re all trying their best not to crack up as well. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” …
SOURCE: Variety at 06:34PMThursday, November 16, 2023
It may be appropriate for a musical with “spam” in the title to feel canned. But it’s a shame that the first Broadway revival of “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” now playing at the St.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMKevin McCollum of "SIX," Diana DiMenna of "Here Lies Love," Jonathan McCrory of National Black Theatre and more share their reasoning behind auxiliary programming — and the results.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:00AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
To hear the actress Sierra Boggess tell it, Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s Broadway musical “Harmony” couldn’t have a more apt title. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” po…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:09PMThere’s a narrator in “Harmony,” Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s musical now playing at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theater—an elderly rabbi, played ably by Chip Zien, who tells…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:28AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
“What a terrible tragedy.” Indeed. That’s the lyric cried out as, in theory, the famously magnificent Cornish home at the heart of the story burns to the ground at the climax of the mu…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:00PMRachel Bloom remembers the exact moment that she decided her latest stage project, “Death, Let Me Do My Show,” couldn’t be the lightweight standup show she was hoping it would be. It w…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:56PMTuesday, September 5, 2023
Broadway video design is a lot more complicated than it looks. And it already looks pretty complicated. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: On the new episode of “Sta…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:46PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, the musical “If/Then”: These aren’t the usual conversational touchpoints in a discussion about a video game. But all three of those musical theater…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:25PMFrom “The Cottage” to ”Back to the Future” to ”Here Lies Love,” more shows have bet on a summer opening than traditional logic dictates. The producers reveal their strategies.
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 07:00AMFriday, August 11, 2023
Anything that has to do with Steven Spielberg’s award-winning 1975 film “Jaws” should be fun. After all, it’s a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating sh…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:06AMTuesday, August 8, 2023
News has been grim in the theater sector lately, as economic headwinds have forced organizations around the country to reduce programming, lay off staff, pause production or, in some cases, …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:17PMThursday, August 3, 2023
Yogi Berra said the future ain’t what it used to be. We know how he feels. The Broadway arrival of the West End hit “Back to the Future” continues the march of Hollywood brand extensio…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, July 25, 2023
Jason Alexander’s latest theater project, the new comedy “The Cottage,” opened on Broadway last night — and it’s just the first of a string of theater projects that stand poised to…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:21PMMonday, July 24, 2023
A posh country estate where half a dozen lovers unveil their infidelities is the setting of “The Cottage,” which opened at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater tonight. Set in 1923, this com…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:30PMThursday, July 20, 2023
Imelda Marcos demands to know, near the end of “Here Lies Love,” why we don’t love her. The unlikely belle of this propulsive and glittering ball, from musicians David Byrne and Fatboy…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMThursday, July 13, 2023
All the elements are there: a forgotten but fascinatingly tragic, true-life story about a world-changing medical discovery that saved the lives of millions; a large-cast, grand-scale product…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMTuesday, July 11, 2023
The movie comedy “Theater Camp” is one of those dreams-come-true success stories that sometimes emerge from the Sundance Film Festival: Scrappy indie movie debuts in Park City, the audie…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:57PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
With a resumé that includes “How to Get Away With Murder,” “Fire Island” and the upcoming comedy “How to Die Alone,” Conrad Ricamora has gotten some of his best screen work play…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:46PMMonday, June 26, 2023
Alex Edelman wants to know that you’re having a good time. The 34-year-old comedian, whose nimbly clever solo show “Just For Us” is now on Broadway, describes himself as “solicitous�…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
While it is debatable that the life of the newly emancipated Britney Spears is a fairy tale at present, the singer’s catalog of hits surely has the feel of a fable with feminist-forward em…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, June 20, 2023
“What was I thinking when I made this deal?” So sings Holly Martins (Sam Underwood) towards the end of the new musical adaptation of “The Third Man.” Indeed. As it turns out, the mys…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:25PM 
