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Living Is Harder: Suffs and Grenfell Suffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
By Sara Holdren
culture
Yesterday at 12:00 p.m.
The Wiz Comes Home to BroadwayAnd it’s queerer and funnier than ever.
theater review
Apr. 17, 2024
The Wiz Rolls Back Into TownBig high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
theater review
Apr. 16, 2024
Writing Down the Bones: Sally & Tom A curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
By Sara Holdren
starcrossed
Apr. 16, 2024
Rachel Zegler to Play Juliet for Real This Time Making her Broadway debut alongside Kit Connor.
theater review
Apr. 15, 2024
Look, I Made a Woman: Lempicka The musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 14, 2024
St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of Rats The Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing) A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Apr. 11, 2024
By Sara Holdren
800 Black Performers Sign Letter in Support of Francesca Amewudah-Rivers After she faced racism online for being cast opposite Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet .
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.
career change
Apr. 7, 2024
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.
Who Is Rooting for Corey Stoll in Appropriate ? “A real strength of the play is how people’s allegiances are constantly shifting.”
grover’s corners
Apr. 3, 2024
Take a Trip Back to Our Town Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Jim Parsons will star (yes, in this).
in conversation
Apr. 3, 2024
The One and Only Benedict Wong Spy. Scientist. Sorcerer Supreme. Finally, with 3 Body Problem , the actor plays someone like himself.
theater review
Mar. 28, 2024
Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s Tommy Yes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
By Sara Holdren
stage whisperer
Mar. 28, 2024
Stage Whisperer: Ariana DeBose’s Tonys Hat Trick This 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
theater review
Mar. 27, 2024
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
hosting duties
Mar. 27, 2024
A Motherquake Is Hitting Broadway! Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, starring Jessica Lange and directed by Tina Landau, starts previews on April 3.
drama class
Mar. 26, 2024
Does Victoria Pedretti Even Have a Max Subscription? She hasn’t seen Succession or The Sopranos despite acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli.
the greatest star of all
Mar. 25, 2024
Nicole Scherzinger Is Ready for Her Close-up She’s making her way to the St. James in Sunset Boulevard this September — a musical by her former nemesis Andrew Lloyd Webber.
theater review
Mar. 24, 2024
Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come! At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
By Sara Holdren
coming soon
Mar. 22, 2024
The Odes of Tammy Faye Will Play the Palace With Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben making their way across the pond.
theater review
Mar. 21, 2024
Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
By Sara Holdren
stage whisperer
Mar. 20, 2024
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.
theater review
Mar. 19, 2024
In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite Marks Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
By Sara Holdren
coming soon
Mar. 19, 2024
Broadway Is Celebrating Casimir Pulaski Day Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise is headed for the Great White Way, just in time for Tony season.
theater review
Mar. 18, 2024
Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the People With Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
By Sara Holdren
Your Secret Is Safe With Paapa Essiedu The star of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect would never gossip behind your back.
Climate Protesters Interrupt An Enemy of the People Performance Michael Imperioli stayed in character, shooing the protesters away.
theater review
Mar. 14, 2024
Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The Effect A 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
last night on late night
Mar. 13, 2024
Carrie Coon Wants The Gilded Age to Take Broadway Forget a musical episode, it’s time for a whole damn show.
don’t stop!
Mar. 12, 2024
Glee Crushes Past Haunt New York TheatersDarren Criss, Jonathan Groff, and now Grant Gustin are vindicating Ryan Murphy’s twink-casting abilities.
theater review
Mar. 11, 2024
Corruption’ s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 10, 2024
The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead Outlaw From the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
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
theater review
Mar. 7, 2024
Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through Movement Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
By Sara Holdren
coming soon(ish)
Mar. 6, 2024
theater review
Mar. 1, 2024
Brooklyn Laundry ’s Drama Has Been Worn to DeathJohn Patrick Shanley’s play needs a little starch.
theater review
Feb. 28, 2024
In The Ally, Impossible Conversations We’re All Having Itamar 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
Lucy Prebble’s Messy Women The playwright on Succession fan theories, her characters’ possible mental-health diagnoses, and if we’ll ever get another season of I Hate Suzie .
in conversation
Feb. 28, 2024
Made for Jessica Lange Her haunting role in Mother Play , like so much of her work, is one only she could perform.
it’s theater season
Feb. 27, 2024
How to Write a Fake Rock Song The musician Will Butler on his new Broadway banger.
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Fiasco’s Smooth-Sailing Pericles An affable, legible take that intermittently sings.
By Sara Holdren
theater review
Feb. 26, 2024
Cynthia Nixon Does Anything But Vanish in The Seven Year Disappear She and Taylor Trensch lead an ambitious, if rangy, survey of mother-son dynamics.
it’s theater season
Feb. 26, 2024
The Weird, Wide-Eyed, Weepy, and Wild Voices on Broadway This season there are more types of voices on display than we’ve heard in a long time.
theater review
Feb. 25, 2024
Through a Glass, Familiarly: The Hunt In 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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