Monday, March 23, 2026
Watching “Giant,†opening March 23 on Broadway after a much-hailed run on London’s West End, one is left with little wonder how its protagonist, Roald Dahl, achieved such …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00PMThursday, October 30, 2025
The script for Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road†indicates that the play takes place at “a couch in a void.†As the lights come up, we see it â€�…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
I am among the many potential audience members for “Art,†the new revival of Yazmina Reza’s sly, knowing play, who has never thought much about James Corden. That’s…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSaturday, March 29, 2025
Sybil Schneiderman, the breakout character on Hulu’s new sitcom “Mid-Century Modern,†is discussed, amply, before she is seen. “The woman could probably make it anot…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:45PMMonday, March 24, 2025
If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can’t think of him. Well, “the masses†may be a stretch â…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AMThursday, December 12, 2024
“Cult of Love†begins with a tableau so close to perfect that one can see it shattering even before it happens. The Dahl family have come together to celebrate Christmas, with th…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMSunday, October 20, 2024
As she sings the final verse of “As If We Never Said Goodbye,†one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical “Sunset Boulevard,†Nicole Scherzinger turns h…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Playing the character of “DHH,†the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins “Yellow Face,†the new production of David Henry Hwang’s play, standing within a box, from whic…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:30PMMonday, March 18, 2024
At various points in “An Enemy of the People,†the Jeremy Strong-led production of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, the greatest entertainment comes from watching the faces opposit…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMFriday, October 21, 2022
Through the second act of “A Little Life,†the titanic Ivo van Hove-directed play that premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Oct. 20, t…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:31PMMonday, July 11, 2022
In Shakespeare in the Park’s new production of “Richard III,†Danai Gurira plays the title role less as a politician than as a performer. Gurira’s Richard is a mast…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMThursday, April 14, 2022
The set of the new Broadway production of “American Buffalo†at Circle in the Square is choked with the unwanted artifacts of recent history. The show’s two acts take plac…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00PMMonday, March 28, 2022
“Plaza Suite†practically demands to be played straight. Neil Simon’s look at three romantic couples facing down the passage of time is sharp and knowing, but it is, cruci…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00PMWednesday, July 7, 2021
Your inclination towards “Schmigadoon!,†at least in its early going, will likely be determined by your reaction to its title. If you think it’s a clever, charming wink to…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:51AMMonday, April 5, 2021
By now, more than a year deep into the social disruption wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have had several examples of awards shows trying their best to accomplish something like the tra…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:20AMMonday, March 1, 2021
The Golden Globes are facing down a scandal that has felt, in moments over the past week, practically existential, with Los Angeles Times reporting indicating both a systemic and corrupt sel…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:16AMSaturday, January 23, 2021
Andra Day (“The United States vs. Billie Holidayâ€) and Leslie Odom Jr. (“One Night in Miamiâ€) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety‘s Actors on Actors, presen…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:13PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
The last time James Corden hosted the Tony Awards, the CBS late-night host was understandably subsumed by events onstage and off; not merely were his last bits on the Tonys stage, in 2016, o…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:06AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Bob Fosse’s signature style as a director and choreographer was stripped-down and then askew, removing familiar excesses of movement or film language so that he might replace them wit…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:00PMSunday, June 10, 2018
This year’s Tony Awards seemed to address the times in which we live with a certain amount of urgency, as all awards shows have done over the course of the Trump era. But give the thea…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:41PM 
