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 final musical, to a play about Robert Moses headlined by Ralph Fiennes, to its current offering, a staging of “King Lear” co-directed by and starring […]

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: The Louis Armstrong Musical.” Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: On the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast, Iglehart (“Aladdin”) recalled that as soon as […]