behind the scenes
Mar. 19, 2019
When a Theater Reviewer Becomes the One Being Reviewed I was this magazine’s theater critic. Now I’ve co-written Broadway’s Beetlejuice: The Musical . Those jobs have one big thing in common.
Theater Review: A Time to Kill “Our hero enters, eating grits.”
Theater Review: A Night With Janis Joplin Is a Cheap Thrill There are pearly performances of great songs. It’s a shame about the rest of the show.
Theater Review: Broadway’s Big Fish A great star, singing deadly music and lyrics.
Theater Review: Very Good Bad Jews “Tracee Chimo’s Daphna seems to fill every corner of the room at once.”
theater review
Oct. 2, 2013
Theater Review: The Anti-Reinvention of A Streetcar Named Desire The revival — with Joe Manganiello as Stanley — is canonical, but not typical.
stage dive
Sept. 26, 2013
stage dive
Sept. 19, 2013
stage dive
Sept. 17, 2013
stage dive
Sept. 13, 2013
The Stage Dive Weekend Review A play that’s half-Chekov and half-Dallas , another that depicts Muhammad Ali meeting Stepin Fetchit, and a musical that’s Icecapades for nerds. Good times.
theater review
Sept. 12, 2013
Review: Mike Daisey’s All the Faces of the Moon Daisey’s latest is a monthlong epic about fiction, fantasy, magic, and, yes. lying.
fall preview 2013
Aug. 25, 2013
What Our Critics Are Anticipating This Fall What they can’t wait to read, see, and hear this season.
Damon Lindelof on Blockbuster Screenwriting “We live in a commercial world, where you’ve gotta come up with ‘trailer moments.’”
Theater Review: John Malkovich’s Underappreciated Liaisons “I saw empty seats at my performance last night! This must not be.”
Theater Review: Pop Goes the Buddha in Monkey: Journey to the West There are about 1,000 reasons to see director Chen Shi-Zheng’s gaudy, goofy flagship popera opening this year’s Lincoln Center Festival.
theater review
July 3, 2013
theater review
June 28, 2013
Weekend Theater: Tennessee Williams, David Morse Amanda Plummer makes existing look so hard in the Tennessee Williams revival.
inside theater
June 28, 2013
The Civilians’ Steve Cosson Likes His Theater Dead New York’s premier investigative theater company looks into death this weekend.
theater review
June 21, 2013
Stage Dive Weekend Review: Kid Like Jake , More Carla Gugino as a Manhattan helicopter mom. Yes, please.
Vulture’s Theater Critics Live-Blog the Tonys Join Scott Brown and Jesse Green as they give their moment-by-moment take on theater’s biggest night.
Our Critics on the Tonys’ Eight Most Telling Races Scott Brown and Jesse Green study the big categories, the bigger relevance of a potential Tom Hanks win, and Kinky Boots vs. Matilda .
Theater Review: Sell Your Soul to See The Wild Bride . It’s Worth It. You’ve got less than three weeks to catch the latest splashy, genre-braiding fantasy from visionary Emma Rice and Britain’s Kneehigh Theatre.
Theater Reviews: The Revisionist and Much More Plus The Madrid , Passion , The Dance and the Railroad , Katie Roche , and Much Ado About Nothing.
oscars 2013
Feb. 25, 2013
What Musicals Mean to the Oscars Old-time show tunes were everywhere in last night’s show.
Feb. 22, 2013
The Five: Theater A particularly starry spring descends on Broadway.
Theater Review: Really Really Theater’s deep disgust for (and fear of) “the Millennials” reaches a high-water mark with Really Really .
Brown on the Les Misérables Revival: Broadway Eats Its Own Tail Will the new Mizheads even realize the show began onstage? Will it matter?
Theater Review: Luck of the Irish Including The Good Person of Szechwan , All in the Timing , and The Clement World .
Theater Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof “Never in the long history of towels and crotches has there been such a knot.”
Theater Review: I, Malvolio and a Festival Roundup Specifically, the COIL and Under the Radar festivals.
Theater Review: Water by the Spoonful Rangy, riff-y, unapologetically self-helpful.
Theater Review: The Roundabout’s Picnic “A small town where everybody’s from somewhere else.”
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