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Stagecraft: Tony Shalhoub and ‘Band’s Visit’ Creators Bring Buzzy Musical to...
Tony Shalhoub has a lead role in the buzzy Broadway musical “The Band’s Visit” — despite the fact that he’s never sung on stage before. “I kept trying to explain this was going to be a bad idea,”...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Blackmail Led Tracy Letts to Acting (Listen)
The Tony-winning actor Tracy Letts only discovered acting because somebody blackmailed his father into starring in a community theater play. Letts, who as a writer (“August: Osage County”) has won both...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Harvey Fierstein, Michael Urie Talk ‘Torch Song’ (Listen)
How did Michael Urie shake the memory of original actor Harvey Fierstein when he took on the lead role of “Torch Song”? He didn’t even try. “He’s always there,” Urie explains in the latest episode of...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Jonathan Groff on ‘Mindhunter’ and Why He’s ‘the Snowden...
David Fincher ordered Jonathan Groff to stop smiling. Repeatedly. Broadway favorite Groff (“Hamilton,” “Spring Awakening”) tells the behind-the-scenes tale in the latest episode of Stagecraft,...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty Return to ‘Once on This...
Stephen Flaherty wasn’t sure he had permission to write “Once on This Island.” So says the Broadway composer in the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater podcast, in a conversation with his...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Beau Willimon on How Trump Changed ‘The Parisian Woman’...
Trump has changed a lot of things in this country — and one of those things is “The Parisian Woman,” the Broadway play that stars Uma Thurman. According to Beau Willimon, the playwright who is also the...
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Stagecraft Podcast: How ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Got to Broadway (Listen)
The young actor Ethan Slater has been involved in the “SpongeBob Squarepants” stage musical since its very first workshop five years ago. But back then, he had no idea he was auditioning for the role...
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Stagecraft Podcast: Julie Taymor, David Henry Hwang Talk ‘M. Butterfly’ and...
Back in 1988, the Broadway play “M. Butterfly” played like “The Crying Game” — four years before the Neil Jordan film was even released. “In the original production, a lot of the impact turned on the...
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Stagecraft Podcast: John Leguizamo Says He’s a ‘True Ghetto Nerd’
John Leguizamo learned a lot in order to prepare for his new Broadway solo outing, “Latin History for Morons.” But his biggest takeaway? “I am a true ghetto nerd, is the real discovery!” he says. “It’s...
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Stagecraft Podcast: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Star Rachel Bloom Sings From Her...
Rachel Bloom, the Golden Globe-winning star of CW series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” has the book and songs for a full-length stage musical sitting in her drawer. “It’s basically a f—ed up ‘Thoroughly...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Stephen Adly Guirgis Talks Writing, Acting and ‘The Get...
The playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis may have a Pulitzer Prize under his belt, but his latest honor — the Residency One retrospective season at Off Broadway’s Signature Theater — at first felt to him...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Why Keegan-Michael Key Craves the Green Lights
“I don’t think there are a lot of performances on Broadway right now that are this fluid.” That’s Keegan-Michael Key talking about “Meteor Shower,” the Broadway comedy he’s currently starring in...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Even John Lithgow ‘Feels Like a Fraud’ Sometimes
John Lithgow may have won two Tony Awards, six Emmys, and a couple of Golden Globes, but even he doubts his own skills sometimes. Take, for instance, every time he’s in a musical. “I feel like a...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Victor Garber on ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and His ‘Weird Thing’...
After several seasons playing half of the superhero Firestorm in Arrowverse TV shows like “Legends of Tomorrow,” Victor Garber is loving making his Broadway return in “Hello, Dolly!” But he had to get...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Lea Salonga Talks Broadway, Her New Album and Getting...
Lea Salonga wants to get “hit in the gut.” That’s what gets her to Broadway, the busy international performer says in the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast. “I think I just have...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Kirstin Maldonado, Jake Shears Walk the Walk in ‘Kinky...
Both Kirstin Maldonado, a member of the popular a cappella group Pentatonix, and Jake Shears, a former member of the Scissor Sisters, have plenty of experience performing live. But performing live in a...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Behind the Scenes With Cast, Creators of ‘Frozen’
How do you know expectations are high for a Broadway musical? When audience members arrive in costume. That’s what the stars and creators of “Frozen” faced in Denver, where Disney’s stage musical...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Casey Nicholaw, Broadway’s Go-to Guy for Musical Comedy
When adapting a movie into a Broadway musical comedy, you have to kill some darlings. But it can be tough. “I get a little bit like: Please put ‘Boo, you whore’ back in it! I have to hear that line!”...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: Lee Pace on Broadway’s ‘Massive’ Epic ‘Angels in America’
Tony Kushner has said he doesn’t want Donald Trump to come see the new Broadway revival of “Angels in America.” But Lee Pace? He wouldn’t mind. “Oh God, I would love it if Donald Trump came to see this...
View ArticleStagecraft Podcast: NBC’s Robert Greenblatt on ‘Rise,’‘Jesus Christ...
Superfans and hate-watchers, take note: You may not have seen the last of “Smash.” So says Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety‘s theater...
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