Friday, May 5, 2023
The playwright Lorraine Hansberry was near death at age 34 when “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” premiered on Broadway, for a three-month run that ended with her passing in 1965.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
The nominations for the 2023 Tony Awards are out — and for every pleasant surprise on the list, there were a few disappointments. Here are the biggest snubs and surprises from this morning…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29AMFriday, April 28, 2023
Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Gr…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:05PMWednesday, April 26, 2023
If there is a megawatt star in “New York, New York,” the new musical from Broadway titans John Kander and the late Fred Ebb (with additional lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda), it’s right t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, April 25, 2023
Friends come and go. Some stay throughout our lives while others, however significant for a time, fade into the haze of memory yet always linger within us. In “Summer, 1976,” the new Bro…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMonday, April 24, 2023
Today’s audiences are unlikely to know the name Oscar Levant, the once-famed pianist, composer, comedian and actor at the center of Doug Wright’s new Broadway play “Good Night, Oscar.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSunday, April 23, 2023
Here is my favorite thing about Suzie Miller’s Olivier Award-winning one-woman play “Prima Facie,” opening at Broadway’s Golden Theater tonight: About halfway through, it begins to r…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:23PMThursday, April 20, 2023
Roasting nice white liberals is a time-honored theatrical pastime. Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they’re predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
The only thing America loves more than watching work imported from Great Britain is when that same British work goes wildly off the rails. What is “The Great British Bake Off” without to…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, April 18, 2023
With the new production of her comedy “The Thanksgiving Play,” Larissa FastHorse has become the first known Native American female playwright on Broadway. Now she can cross it off her to…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:37PMMonday, April 17, 2023
After 35 years — and a string of $3 million weeks at the box office fueled by the last-minute frenzy of “phans” — the 13,981th and final Broadway performance of “The Phantom of the…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:12AMThursday, April 13, 2023
In Aaron Sorkin’s revised script for Lincoln Center Theater’s new Broadway production of “Camelot,” the magic is missing — in more ways than one. The declared aim of the stage, TV …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMAsk Cameron Mackintosh if “The Phantom of the Opera” will be back, and he doesn’t play coy. “Of course it will return,” he says. “All the great musicals do.” But the British me…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMWednesday, April 12, 2023
New York stages are rarely without some version of Shakespeare’s mopey Danish prince, tormented by fatal family drama. But none has ever been quite like the protagonist of “Fat Ham,” J…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMTuesday, April 4, 2023
Here are two wildlife facts you won’t learn in “Life of Pi”: Orangutans are quiet, and zebras stay silent when they’re attacked. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast be…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00PMSunday, March 26, 2023
The cannibalist startup in “Sweeney Todd” kills two birds: For Sweeney, the ruined barber who holds a grudge as steadily as he does a blade, it means turning enemies into actual mincemea…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMThursday, March 23, 2023
The addition of “bad” to the title of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest maximalist spectacle, formerly known simply as “Cinderella” when it premiered for a short-lived run on the West E…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 21, 2023
Celebrated playwright Tom Stoppard has a Broadway success on his hands with “Leopoldstadt,” his (very) loosely autobiographical play now in the sixth month of a long run currently set to…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:08PMSunday, March 19, 2023
It’s hard to believe, but Bob Fosse’s definitive signature musical “Dancin’” has never been revived on Broadway since its Tony Award-winning debut in 1978. Huge kudos, then, to dir…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:29PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Traveling from the relative calm of the Clinton era to more perilous, contemporary times of mobs, mendacity and political mayhem, the much-admired but short-lived musical “Parade” has no…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, March 14, 2023
Since Nicholas Hytner, former artistic director of the National Theatre, is one of the finest, most detailed Shakespeare directors in the land, you could be forgiven for forgetting that he r…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:01PMThursday, March 9, 2023
There are no props in director Jamie Lloyd’s version of Henrik Ibsen’s drama “A Doll’s House” — no sets, no costumes (just plain contemporary clothing in dark blue), not even a c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:26PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
The new play “Pictures From Home” is Tony Award winner Nathan Lane’s 25th Broadway show — and he’s threatening not to come back for a 26th. “This may be the last one,” Lane sai…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:27PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Currently one of the stars of “Star Trek: Discovery,” Anthony Rapp has recently spent some time looking back and reliving his past. Off Broadway, he’s starring in “Without You,” hi…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:34PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Nice acting and sensitive direction characterize “Pictures From Home,” the starry new Broadway production of Sharr White’s meh family drama based on the photo-memoir by Larry Sultan.…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:35AMTuesday, February 7, 2023
National Black Theatre is in the midst of a building itself a new home in Harlem — but then, the company has been in the business of building a home for 55 years. Listen to this week’s …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:49PMMonday, January 30, 2023
If nothing else, you’ve got to admire the epic scope and ambition of “Fall on Your Knees,” a two-part, six-hour adaptation of one of the most beloved Canadian novels of all time – An…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMFriday, January 27, 2023
The Broadway musical “Beetlejuice” simply refused to die. After a 2019 eviction notice from its original theater and an unceremonious 2020 shuttering by the COVID-19 lockdown, the produc…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, January 24, 2023
When Stephen McKinley Henderson talks about playwrights, he talks about music. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “August Wilson is, of course, the blues,” he said…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:37PMSunday, January 15, 2023
“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” Blanche’s famously desperate cry holds the key to most approaches to “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Productions of Tennessee Williams’ master…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:31PMTuesday, 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 03:57PM 
