Trish Deitch

'The Diplomat' star Keri Russell and creator Debora Cahn on that shocking finale death, Allison Janney's VP character Grace Penn and Hal's motivations.

Director Sam Gold's revival of Shakespeare tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet' is more fun than it should be.

Keri Russell talks 'The Diplomat,' falling in love with Matthew Rhys and how Hillary Clinton made her cry.

Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater’s starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, the year the play was written. There’s a baseball cap and a backpack with dayglow tape; pills are in plastic bottles with childproof caps; when someone runs out of ink […]

Popular on Variety There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that love bone-shaking, ear-splitting spectacles, like fireworks and arena-sized heavy metal concerts, and those who want nothing more than to miss such events for a night on the couch with a good book and a cup of hot chocolate. One such person […]

There’s a narrator in “Harmony,” Bruce Sussman and Barry Manilow’s musical now playing at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theater—an elderly rabbi, played ably by Chip Zien, who tells the true story of six young men in Berlin who formed a comedic singing group in 1927 that rose to international fame at the same time that the […]

Let’s face it: No one’s going to hire Danny DeVito to play Lear. Or Willy Loman. Or even George to Albee’s Martha. In the eyes of the world, DeVito is a clown, just short of having a Bozo nose. If he stood onstage reading the obituary page, people would die laughing. So it doesn’t really […]

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez lead a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Merrily We Roll Along."

Popular on Variety Before Melissa Etheridge became a stadium rock star, she spent four years playing lesbian bars in and around LA. That atmosphere—a small, rowdy roomful of happy drunken ladies—changed the way she wrote music and performed. Etheridge loved the intimacy of those late nights—being up close and personal with an audience—and it’s clear […]

Popular on Variety Anything that has to do with Steven Spielberg’s award-winning 1975 film “Jaws” should be fun. After all, it’s a movie about the sudden appearance of a freakishly large, man-eating shark in a quaint New England vacation spot on a packed Fourth of July weekend, and the trio of men — a weathered […]

The show will do its part in chipping away at the injustice that is women remaining voiceless and powerless after they’ve been sexually assaulted.

This revival brings beautiful, spacious clarity to what this oft-produced play is about, who these characters are and what they mean to one another.

You don’t get more American than descending from one of the witches burned at the stake in Salem, Mass. Unless, that is, you’re also an opioid addict in that same town during the Trump years, raisi…

The question is: Why did Spacey think it a good idea to bring the show to an impossibly unwieldy venue for an intimate one-man show?