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  1. theater review
    Living Is Harder: Suffs and GrenfellSuffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. culture
    The Wiz Comes Home to BroadwayAnd it’s queerer and funnier than ever.
    By Soraya Nadia McDonald
  3. theater review
    The Wiz Rolls Back Into TownBig high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. theater review
    Writing Down the Bones: Sally & TomA curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. starcrossed
    Rachel Zegler to Play Juliet for Real This TimeMaking her Broadway debut alongside Kit Connor.
    By Jason P. Frank
  6. theater review
    Look, I Made a Woman: LempickaThe musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
    By Sara Holdren
  7. theater review
    St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of RatsThe Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
    By Sara Holdren
  8. theater review
    Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing)A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
    By Sara Holdren
  9. theater review
    Return of the Musical Rumble: The OutsidersDoes the stage adaptation stay gold?
    By Sara Holdren
  10. drama
    800 Black Performers Sign Letter in Support of Francesca Amewudah-RiversAfter she faced racism online for being cast opposite Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet.
    By Jason P. Frank
  11. culture
    Romeo and Juliet Director Calls Out ‘Barrage’ of Racist AbuseMore than 800 Black performers signed a letter condemning the racism Francesca Amewudah-Rivers has faced since being cast as Juliet.
    By Tariro Mzezewa
  12. theater
    What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) BroadwayLet Vulture’s theater desk be your guide.
    By Vulture Editors
  13. career change
    Willy Wonka Experience’s The Unknown Has a New GigTheater lives! At the London Dungeon.
    By Bethy Squires
  14. allie ally
    Will Rachel McAdams See The Notebook on Broadway?The star is making her Broadway debut at the same time as one of her most iconic films.
    By Tom Smyth
  15. q&a
    Who Is Rooting for Corey Stoll in Appropriate?“A real strength of the play is how people’s allegiances are constantly shifting.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. grover’s corners
    Helen Hunt joins the cast of 'Our Town' at the Barrow Street Theatre, New York, America - 06 Jul 2010
    Take a Trip Back to Our TownKatie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Jim Parsons will star (yes, in this).
    By Jason P. Frank
  17. in conversation
    The One and Only Benedict WongSpy. Scientist. Sorcerer Supreme. Finally, with 3 Body Problem, the actor plays someone like himself.
    By Nicholas Quah
  18. theater review
    Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s TommyYes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
    By Sara Holdren
  19. stage whisperer
    The 76th Annual Tony Awards - Show
    Stage Whisperer: Ariana DeBose’s Tonys Hat TrickThis week in theater news: Ariana will host the Tonys, Lempicka is giving Repo! The Generic Opera, and Bronies are an untapped Broadway audience.
    By Vulture Staff
  20. theater review
    Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
    By Sara Holdren
  21. hosting duties
    Ariana DeBose to Host the Tonys — With a Script This TimeShe’s gonna do it. (The thing.)
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. mom?
    "The Politician" New York Premiere
    A Motherquake Is Hitting Broadway!Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, starring Jessica Lange and directed by Tina Landau, starts previews on April 3.
    By Jason P. Frank
  23. drama class
    Does Victoria Pedretti Even Have a Max Subscription?She hasn’t seen Succession or The Sopranos despite acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. the greatest star of all
    Nicole Scherzinger Is Ready for Her Close-upShe’s making her way to the St. James in Sunset Boulevard this September — a musical by her former nemesis Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. theater review
    A.J. Shively and David McElwee in Irish Rep's 2024 production of PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME!
    Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
    By Sara Holdren
  26. coming soon
    The Odes of Tammy Faye Will Play the PalaceWith Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben making their way across the pond.
    By Jason P. Frank
  27. theater review
    Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
    By Sara Holdren
  28. stage whisperer
    An Enemy of the People’s Stars Didn’t Mind the InterruptionAt the show’s opening-night party, Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli reflected on their interactions with last week’s climate activists.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. theater review
    In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite MarksMichael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
    By Sara Holdren
  30. coming soon
    Broadway Is Celebrating Casimir Pulaski DaySufjan Stevens’s Illinoise is headed for the Great White Way, just in time for Tony season.
    By Jason P. Frank
  31. theater review
    Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the PeopleWith Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
    By Sara Holdren
  32. culture
    Your Secret Is Safe With Paapa EssieduThe star of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect would never gossip behind your back.
    By Michel Ghanem
  33. protests
    "An Enemy Of The People" Conversation & Press Conference
    Climate Protesters Interrupt An Enemy of the People PerformanceMichael Imperioli stayed in character, shooing the protesters away.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  34. theater review
    Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The EffectA musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
    By Sara Holdren
  35. last night on late night
    Carrie Coon Wants The Gilded Age to Take BroadwayForget a musical episode, it’s time for a whole damn show.
    By Bethy Squires
  36. don’t stop!
    Glee Crushes Past Haunt New York TheatersDarren Criss, Jonathan Groff, and now Grant Gustin are vindicating Ryan Murphy’s twink-casting abilities.
    By Jason P. Frank
  37. theater review
    Corruption’s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
    By Sara Holdren
  38. theater review
    The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead OutlawFrom the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
    By Sara Holdren
  39. theater review
    Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
    By Sara Holdren
  40. theater review
    Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through MovementSufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
    By Sara Holdren
  41. coming soon(ish)
    Jake Gyllenhaal and Denzel Washington Will Play Othello (Not the Game)In a production directed by Broadway’s busiest bee, Kenny Leon.
    By Jason P. Frank
  42. theater review
    Brooklyn Laundry’s Drama Has Been Worn to DeathJohn Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
    By Jackson McHenry
  43. theater review
    In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All HavingItamar Moses’s drama about a lefty Israeli American caught up in the complexity of pro-Palestine academia is confident and eloquent in its humility.
    By Sara Holdren
  44. culture
    Lucy Prebble’s Messy WomenThe playwright on Succession fan theories, her characters’ possible mental-health diagnoses, and if we’ll ever get another season of I Hate Suzie.
    By Emily Gould
  45. in conversation
    Made for Jessica LangeHer haunting role in Mother Play, like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  46. it’s theater season
    How to Write a Fake Rock SongThe musician Will Butler on his new Broadway banger.
    By Devon Ivie
  47. theater review
    Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing PericlesAn affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
    By Sara Holdren
  48. theater review
    Cynthia Nixon Does Anything But Vanish in The Seven Year DisappearShe and Taylor Trensch lead an ambitious, if rangy, survey of mother-son dynamics.
    By Jackson McHenry
  49. it’s theater season
    The Weird, Wide-Eyed, Weepy, and Wild Voices on BroadwayThis season there are more types of voices on display than we’ve heard in a long time.
    By Jason P. Frank
  50. theater review
    Tobias Menzies and Aerina DeBoer in The Hunt.
    Through a Glass, Familiarly: The HuntIn this adaptation of a Danish thriller, almost all the characters conform to movie-trope behavior and movie-trope actions.
    By Sara Holdren
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