On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame " a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important …
The actor Joy Woods never thought much about "Gypsy" " at least not until she was cast in the show opposite Audra McDonald in one of the buzziest Broadway revivals of the season. Listen to t…
There's a cozy ease that permeates "All In," in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon…
"You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they're the ones who cheer when the other team scores." So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley'…
The Shed isn't a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it's hosted some of New York City's starriest stage endeavors"from Stephen Sondheim's fin…
A century after the novel first hit shelves, "The Great Gatsby" is the bee's knees all over again. Just take a look at the New York theater scene, where adaptations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's …
There's an unlikely connection between Louis Armstrong and Beetlejuice " or at least there is for James Monroe Iglehart, the Tony-winning Broadway star of the new musical "A Wonderful World:…
In the new Broadway musical "Death Becomes Her," a so-so 1992 movie gets a stunning makeover. Headlined by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and a slew of special effects, the film followed two vain…
There's so much to recommend "Swept Away" " about two brothers from a religious family who get trapped on an ill-fated whaling ship with a crew of doomed heathens " that it seems unkind, or …
It takes more than a holy spirit and revivalist verve to make "Tammy Faye" divinely suited for musical theater. It would take a creative team knowing what their show wants to be: a campy hoo…
Are we human, or are we… robots? "Maybe Happy Ending," a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question " or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it mea…
Megan Hilty always knew "Death Becomes Her" would make a great musical " and now she's headlining the show on Broadway. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The fan-favori…
In his latest Broadway project, Emmy winner Darren Criss ("The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story") and his co-star, Helen J. Shen, play retired, robotic "helperbots" i…
You'd think in a world so divided by war and pain as ours, a story about ill-fated young lovers torn apart by their families' senseless but devastating feud would be treated with more gravit…
Back during Nicole Scherzinger's run in the West End revival of "Sunset Boulevard""the show that won her an Olivier Award and has now brought her to Broadway to reprise her performance"she n…
The playwright Jez Butterworth recently had perhaps the most eventful recording session in the history of "Stagecraft," Variety's theater podcast. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" po…
Jez Butterworth's ambitious, captivating and richly rewarding domestic drama "The Hills of California" straddles dual worlds of dreams and reality as it shuttles between two pivotal time per…
Producer Aaron Glick, Rachel Sussman, Jamila Ponton Bragg and more share how the fellowship aided their path to the Main Stem.
A little-known fact about Daniel Dae Kim: He's really, really into "Saturday Night Live." "I'm a super fan," says the actor just a few days before starting performances for the revival of Da…
There's something loose, rebellious, and even wild hiding within the trappings of "The Roommate," a new Broadway production of a play written by Jen Silverman. One just has to wait for it to…
"There is," as Stephen Sondheim once groaned, "nothing worse than great expectations." It may seem unfair to evoke a master when reviewing only the second show from a young British musical t…
They don't give out Tony Awards for Most Comically Elaborate Broadway-Themed Promotional Announcement of a Football Telecast Series. But if they did, "ManningCast the Musical" would be a sho…
If you're a musical theater composer, Broadway might get you a Tony Award " but it won't get you 50 voices singing onstage. For that kind of scale, Jeanine Tesori, the Tony-winning composer …
Broadway fans often talk about theater as a spiritual experience " but most of them aren't thinking of tarot cards when they say it. That could change thanks to a new tarot deck that's a sur…
Close to the climax of "Once Upon a Mattress," now revived on Broadway for the second time, Princess Winnifred (Sutton Foster) has reached the end of her rope. After the frustrations of the …