A Broadway opening often marks the culmination of a years-long journey for the collaborators who have created a show, whether they're working on a new musical or a revival of a familiar play…
Whether "Ragtime" is presented in productions mammoth (as in its 1998 premiere) or modest (the 2009 revival), the musical, adapted from E.L. Doctorow's kaleidoscopic 1975 novel, reverberates…
Variety is proud to announce the 2025 edition of its annual 10 Broadway Stars to Watch, with this year's roster of standouts set to be honored at our annual Business of Broadway Breakfast…
Forget the tree. That iconic lone tree from the stage directions in Samuel Beckett's tragicomic masterwork "Waiting for Godot" is offstage in Jamie Lloyd's re-envisioned revival. The polariz…
Thomas Schumacher, a leading force in growing Disney Theatrical Group into one of the most successful and influential theater producers on Broadway and around the world, will step down as DT…
For Lear deBessonet, theater has always been about community " and it's a value she's bringing with her as she steps into the role of artistic director of Manhattan's venerable Lincoln Cente…
"Hamilton" celebrates the 10th anniversary of its Broadway opening on Aug. 6. As part of the birthday festivities, a quartet of actors who have starred in the show gathered to talk about wha…
Less than a year after making his Broadway debut in "Cabaret," Adam Lambert is stepping into another musical next month, starring as Judas opposite Cynthia Erivo as Jesus in the Hollywood Bo…
The immersive theater company Punchdrunk has returned to New York City with "Viola's Room" " and it couldn't be more different than their signature international hit, "Sleep No More." Listen…
The crowd roars and the vast, unsmiling curtain-call cast line the stage with the leading man bare-chested and covered in blood. No, this isn't director Jamie Lloyd's "Sunset Boulevard" " it…
How do you do a flying horse on stage? Answer: You don't. They cut the horse. But while Hercules' friend Pegasus may be gone, in almost every other respect, Disney's latest stage adaptation,…
The Muny, a venerable outdoor theater in St. Louis that's now in its 107th season, had a lot to celebrate after it picked up a Tony for regional theater earlier this month " a barbecue, chee…
Sometimes the only refuge from the brutalities of a life pre-destined for loneliness, poverty and violence is a poetic voice. In playwright Jamie Wax's one-hander "Call Me Izzy," Jean Smart …
The 2025 Tony Awards had it all " Cynthia Erivo, Oprah, a "Hamilton" reunion, and a fair share of snubs and surprises to keep awards-season prognosticators on their toes. After making our wi…
With the 2024-25 theater season now complete, a new rule has been added to the old Broadway playbook. That rule? Throw out the playbook. In a banner year that's seen Broadway sales finally s…
The Emmy-winning writer-actor Lena Waithe ("The Chi," "Master of None") recently sat down with the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins to discuss his Pulitzer Prize-winning new play, "Purpose,…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' family drama "Purpose" is already one of the big winners of the Broadway awards season: The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New York Drama Critics Circl…
Michelle Williams may not be a Tony nominee this year, but in her estimation, she still has plenty to celebrate. The former member of Destiny's Child is back on Broadway for the first time i…
Bob Odenkirk ("Better Call Saul") earned a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut in the hit revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross." But almost 30 years ago, if he'd gotten his way, he would have …
The biggest, most trenchant laugh on the London stage is nightly cracking up the audience at the West End staging of "Giant" " and it's a moment indicative of the blissful timing in the writ…
It's been a busy season on Broadway, crowded with big stars, boffo hits " and strong contenders for awards attention. This year's Tony Awards nominations seemed particularly hard to predict,…
Grammy-winning musician Joy Huerta and musical theater songwriter Benjamin Velez didn't know each other before they started working together on the score for "Real Women Have Curves." But th…
The Latina seamstresses at a dressmaking workshop in East L.A. express their credo at the top of the new musical "Real Women Have Curves." With the pulsating song "Make It Work" these women …
Unlike the mobile British corpse in "Operation Mincemeat," the traveling American cadaver in the Broadway musical "Dead Outlaw" has a far less noble posthumous purpose than winning World War…
It might be time to call it quits on biographical jukebox musicals. "Jersey Boys" ignited a trend, but its many spawn have been mostly ill-conceived. Recently we've had "Summer: The Donna Su…