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  1. theater review
    Strangers at My Table: Domestic Drama in Epiphany and ChainsA loose adaptation of The Dead, and a revival of largely forgotten 1909 London hit.
    By Helen Shaw
  2. theater review
    Will Arbery, Back in Texas With CorsicanaDeirdre O’Connell and Jamie Brewer star in the latest work from the Heroes of the Fourth Turning playwright.
    By Helen Shaw
  3. theater review
    Stroller-Size Theater: Josh Azouz’s Buggy BabyPlus, Beginning Days of True Jubilation at the New Ohio.
    By Helen Shaw
  4. in conversation
    Laura Linney Resists InterpretationThe actress lives for the stage, loves film crews, and treasures her co-stars. Just don’t ask her about the ending of Ozark. 
    By E. Alex Jung
  5. big moves
    Company Relocates From Broadway to Across North AmericaThe Tony-winning musical will tour the U.S. for the 2023-2024 season.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  6. encounter
    Renée Elise Goldsberry, a Diva 5EvaRiffs, car crêpes, and a last-minute substitution with the multitasking theater star turned sitcom breakout.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. theater review
    In The Orchard, Baryshnikov Co-Stars With a Robotic ArmDoes that thing get scale?
    By Helen Shaw
  8. funny girl
    Potential Fanny Brice Replacements Most Likely to Satisfy VultureThe rumor mill has the role going to Rachel Berry, but should it?
    By Jackson McHenry
  9. congrats lea michele
    Beanie Feldstein & Jane Lynch to Exit Funny Girl in SeptemberGoodbye, gorgeous!
    By Bethy Squires
  10. theater review
    Circle Jerk, Now in the FleshPlus a two-part art-world sitcom: Weekend at Barry’s/Lesbian Lighthouse.
    By Helen Shaw
  11. great investments
    The Lehman Trilogy Is Being Adapted for TV, and It’s Still Doing the TwistDoes the rotating glass box have an agent?
    By Devon Ivie
  12. bad brit behavior
    Andrew Lloyd Webber Booed for Calling Cinderella Musical a ‘Costly Mistake’Webber later apologized, stating “nothing could be further from the truth.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  13. tonys 2022
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2022 Tony AwardsBig night for two Michael Jacksons.
    By Jackson McHenry, Helen Shaw, and Kathryn VanArendonk
  14. tony awards 2022
    Jennifer Hudson Has Produced Her Way to an EGOTHudson is one of a handful of celebrity producers of Best Musical A Strange Loop.
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. sondheim content
    Bernadette Peters Performed a Sondheim Tribute at the TonysOf course.
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. theater review
    The Bedwetter Is a Real Story About Pain and PeeSarah Silverman’s memoir-musical is flush with jokes and tween anxiety, but that set really has to go.
    By Helen Shaw
  17. tonys 2022
    What Should Win at the 2022 Tony Awards?A conversation about the best of the 2021–22 theater season.
    By Helen Shaw, Jackson McHenry, and Devon Ivie
  18. theater
    Jodie Comer Will Try Killing It on Broadway in Prima Facie Next YearThe Emmy winner earned raves for her performance in London.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. signing off
    Dear Evan Hansen to Wave Good-bye Through a WindowThe Broadway musical gave rise to Ben Platt, the Pasek-and-Paul musical-industrial complex, and an endlessly memed film.
    By Justin Curto
  20. tonys 2022
    Some 100 Percent Correct 2022 Tony Awards PredictionsLike Harold Hill, we may mislead you, but we’re very confident.
    By Jackson McHenry
  21. tonys 2022
    A Strange 20-Year Loop to BroadwayFrom the porn studio to the Tony Awards.
    By Diep Tran
  22. theater review
    Dreaming Zenzile Makes Beautiful Music — If Not TheaterA Miriam Makeba bio-musical sounds better than it plays.
    By Helen Shaw
  23. theater
    Almost Famous Is Almost on Broadway After Pandemic DelaysCameron Crowe’s musical adaptation will premiere this fall.
    By Zoe Guy
  24. theater review
    Drag Drag Revolution: Notes on Killing … Confuses Its Categories“While I like ontological mayhem as much as the next weird art freak, this is not that kind of generative confusion.”
    By Helen Shaw
  25. crime
    Kevin Spacey Will ‘Voluntarily Appear’ to Defend Himself in U.K. CourtThe actor proclaimed his innocence in a statement on the charges.
    By Justin Curto
  26. theater review
    Fat Ham Aims to Put the Ha in HamletToo too solid.
    By Helen Shaw
  27. encounter
    Édouard Louis Wants You to Go Protest After Seeing His One-Man ShowThe French writer is frustrated with Americans.
    By Brock Colyar
  28. theater
    Encores!’s Into the Woods Will Have an Encore on BroadwaySara Bareilles’s Baker’s Wife will return, alongside some newcomers.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. summer preview
    29 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This SummerIndoors and outdoors, uptown and down.
    By Helen Shaw
  30. theater review
    Who Killed My Father: Elegy Saturated With ClichéÉdouard Louis’s memoir has been bizarrely and frustratingly staged.
    By Helen Shaw
  31. theater review
    In Exception to the Rule, Detention Is a Whole Other Class of PunishmentDave Harris’s play goes into an after-school penalty that’s not really intended to teach lessons.
    By Helen Shaw
  32. the industry
    Members of Scott Rudin Broadway Productions Freed From NDAsIncluding actors and stage managers on To Kill a Mockingbird and West Side Story.
    By Justin Curto
  33. theater review
    A Cherry Orchard That Chops Down Most of the TreesChucking out the familiar in search of the truth.
    By Helen Shaw
  34. walk off
    Jesse Williams Is ‘Not Really Worrying’ About Leaked Take Me Out VideoThe Broadway show is upping security after nude footage of Jesse Williams went viral.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  35. a doctor in the house
    Doctor From TV Surprises Girl From the North Country With Special PerformancesAnthony Edwards made his Broadway debut as Dr. Walker.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  36. rip
    Bruce MacVittie, New York Theater Mainstay, Dead at 65MacVittie got his big break playing opposite Al Pacino in American Buffalo.
    By Bethy Squires
  37. it’s quiet ain’t no back talk
    Who Dares Talk Back to Patti LuPone at a Patti LuPone Talk-back?“Chris Harper pays my salary!”
    By Rebecca Alter
  38. stage whisperer
    The Winners and Rained-on Parades of This Year’s Tony NomineesCongrats to A Strange Loop!
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. theater review
    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  40. theater review
    Which Way to the Stage Takes a Superfan’s View of the WorldEmbodied by two characters on the far fringes of theatrical success.
    By Helen Shaw
  41. theater review
    Oh God, A Show About Abortion Could Not Be More RelevantAlison Leiby’s one-woman show doesn’t have the spark it needs — so it’s handy that its audience is already on fire.
    By Helen Shaw
  42. live! más
    Taco Bell Wrangles Dolly Parton and Doja Cat Into Doing a TikTok MusicalNo more spon-con. Comes the day you say, “What for?” Please, no more.
    By Rebecca Alter
  43. tonys 2022
    A Strange Loop Leads 2022 Tony Awards Nominations With 11MJ, Paradise Square, Company, and The Lehman Trilogy are among the top nominees.
    By Justin Curto
  44. theater review
    Alice Childress’s Wedding Band Returns, Well-BurnishedChildress’s bitter play, now married to a modern sensibility, returns on a wave of acclaim.
    By Helen Shaw
  45. monarchism
    Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are CollabingTheir latest controversial muse? Queen Elizabeth II.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. tony awards 2022
    West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose Will Host the 2022 Tony AwardsGive us dance numbers!
    By Jackson McHenry
  47. dinosaurs
    Paleontology! at the Vivian BeaumontPuppet designer James Ortiz on The Skin of Our Teeth’s big creatures.
    By Jackson McHenry
  48. theater review
    Two Men, Twin Falls: Samuel Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of GodSamuel D. Hunter’s play about male friendship, latter-day American desperation, and the passage of time.
    By Helen Shaw
  49. are u coming?
    Michael R. Jackson Doesn’t Really Care How You React to A Strange LoopBut he’d love Tucker Carlson to come see it.
    By Brock Colyar
  50. theater review
    Something Distanced This Way Comes: Craig and Negga in MacbethCelebrity squares off against experiment, from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane.
    By Helen Shaw
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