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How Broadway’s ‘Maybe Happy Ending’ Star Darren Criss Makes Robots Human by Embracing the ‘Beep-o-Boop-Bop’

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” in the near-future love story “Maybe Happy Ending.” And although it might seem like a challenge to find the emotion in an android, Criss is finding that more he […]

‘Romeo and Juliet’ Review: Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler Headline a Shakespeare Tragedy That’s More Fun Than It Should Be

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 gravitas than director Sam Gold treats it in his somewhat vulgar Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The Bard’s “Romeo and […]

New York Audiences Are Noisy — and Nicole Scherzinger Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way: Hear the Stars Dish at Variety’s Business of Broadway

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 never had a problem recognizing the Gothamites in the crowd. “I could always tell when the New Yorkers came across the pond to the […]

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