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Uzo Aduba does not play a great white shark in Lynn Nottage's new Broadway comedy "Clyde's" " but her role in the show does make her think, somewhat surprisingly, of "Jaws." Listen to this w…
Alice Childress' timely play "Trouble in Mind" is finally getting its Broadway debut " after a 65-year wait. The late playwright's first full-length work, about discrimination and imbalanced…
"Paradise Square," an ambitious new musical heading to Broadway in March, is a fictionalized historical take on the Five Points area of Manhattan and the social forces leading up to the viol…
Is it possible that Lady Di might have loved "Diana, The Musical"? We're talking about the princess who surprised Covent Garden with a duet to Billy Idol's "Uptown Girl," a brash and unsettl…
Director John Doyle's electrifying staging of "Assassins," Stephen Sondheim's macabre masterpiece about our national infatuation with fame and our appetite for violence, is a revival to die …
If the team of Ghanaian-American playwright Jocelyn Bioh ("School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play") and Kenyan-born director Saheem Ali brings nothing else to the stages of New York C…
The new Off Broadway play "Morning Sun" was written for Edie Falco " and it's not the most comfortable thing for her. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: "It was disarmin…
The djembe drum is the sacred heartbeat of West Africa, a powerful instrument conveying messages of struggle and liberation for African people. Traditionally used by griots to connect histor…
Stunning performances from Edie Falco, Blair Brown and Marin Ireland humanize Simon Stephens' new play "Morning Sun," an earnest if bland love letter to a kind, selfless but fundamentally un…
"Young hearts, to yourself be true." It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen never sang along with Candi Staton. But among the many things that the frankly sensational "Pride…
The musical "Caroline, or Change" is back on Broadway for the first time since its captivating original production closed in 2004. The best theater revivals highlight the relevance of classi…
The first thing audiences see at the new Broadway revival of "Caroline, or Change" is a statue of a Confederate soldier that, early on in the show, gets torn down in an act of protest. It's …
From "42nd Street" onwards, backstage stories were once a staple in the theater, and while there was often a shark or two, they were usually only of the loan variety. But in the West End pla…
Andrew Lloyd Webber would welcome a transgender performer in the cast of one of his shows, the composer and producer said in an interview recorded live at the Variety Legit: Return to Bro…
"I'm in this world but I'm not," the middle-aged woman confesses to an unseen interviewer in Lucas Hnath's "Dana H.," a mesmerizing solo show of theatrical shamanism that is receiving its Br…
Welcome to America, all ye wretched immigrants from impoverished foreign lands. Watch closely and learn as the three Lehman brothers from Bavaria " Henry the brainy head, Emanuel the powerfu…
The title character of "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is unequivocal: "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it was done quickly." Director Yaël Farber begs to differ. She takes one …
A hope for the future arrives in the final moments of "Thoughts of a Colored Man," a dutiful and expansive cataloguing of its title subject by Keenan Scott II. "I can't wait for the day when…
The fan-favorite Broadway veteran Norm Lewis is doing something he's never done before: starring on Broadway in a play. After a career marked by many of the great roles in musical theater ("…
Everyone knows more than they let on at the top of "Is This a Room," a taut and pulse-prickling docudrama conceived and directed by Tina Satter. That includes audiences who are likely famili…
"Chicken & Biscuits" is a feast of a production, and there is enough sustenance and libation for the entire family. Zhailon Levingston, who at 27-years-old becomes the youngest Black dir…
Here's a treat: a restorative evening of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's loving recollections of growing up in an upstate New York boarding house run by a life force known as Nanny. When Nanny made …
The all-powerful family firm has assets aplenty, but its troubled future is being massively fought over with everyone plotting over the next generation. No, not the upcoming third season of …
Eighteen months after theaters around the country shut down, Jerry Zaks is back doing exactly what he was the moment things went dark: rehearsing his next big Broadway comedy. One of the ind…
When Stephen C. Byrd began producing on Broadway 16 years ago, he and his partner Alia Jones-Harvey were usually the only Black faces they saw in the business. "We would walk into marketing …
