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25 days of cats

How Cats Changed Broadway (Now and) Forever

 Broadway was on life support. Then the big British imports started to arrive. By Michael Riedel
in conversation

Diablo Cody on the Rise of the Fempire and Writing an Alanis Morissette Musical

 “I now regret not having been a theater kid my entire life,” she jokes. By Genevieve Smith
theater review

Tragedy Plus Comedy Plus Melodrama in The Inheritance

 Three hours that are impossibly absorbing, and then three and a half more. By Helen Shaw
  1. theater review
    Theater Review: Jagged Little Pill Is Missing the Essence of AlanisWasn’t she iconic?
    By Helen Shaw
  2. 25 days of cats
    How Cats Changed Broadway (Now and) ForeverBroadway was on life support. Then the big British imports started to arrive.
    By Michael Riedel
  3. 25 days of cats
    Looking Back at John Simon’s Positive 1982 Review of Cats“If you like lavishness, if you like opulence, if you like kitty-literature at its grandest, Cats is surely your thing.”
    By John Simon
  4. the devil wears prada
    Gird Your Loins, The Devil Wears Prada Musical Cast Its Miranda and AndyA million girls would kill for this role.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. 25 days of cats
    The Niche Creator Behind YouTube’s Best Musical Compilation Videos Talks CatsIt’s a thing, we swear.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  7. theater review
    London Theater Review: My Brilliant Friend, in Five Hours Onstage, Still PlayfulElena Ferrante’s four books become four acts.
    By Frankie Thomas
  8. theater reviews
    The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends and A Bright Room Called DayFornés and Kushner, wild inventors both.
    By Helen Shaw
  9. theater reviews
    The Understated Charms of The Underlying Chris, and a High-Decibel CrucibleWill Eno, produced quietly, and Arthur Miller, not.
    By Helen Shaw
  10. michael jackson
    Ephraim Sykes to Star in Michael Jackson Musical That’s Somehow Still HappeningIt will open August 13, 2020.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. theater review
    Theater Review: A Christmas Carol Gets a Cute Scrooge With Daddy IssuesIs this the Ghost of Broadway Future?
    By Helen Shaw
  14. casting
    Timothée Chalamet Is Taking His Talents to the StageHe’s set to star in an Amy Herzog play.
    By Zoe Haylock
  15. theater review
    What Makes the Man: Édouard Louis’s Autobiographies, OnstageHistory of Violence at St. Ann’s and The End of Eddy at BAM.
    By Helen Shaw
  16. in conversation
    Diablo Cody on the Rise of the Fempire and Writing an Alanis Morissette Musical“I now regret not having been a theater kid my entire life,” she jokes.
    By Genevieve Smith
  17. party report
    John Benjamin Hickey Has Never Been to Brunch“I don’t get it.”
    By Justin Curto
  18. theater review
    Tragedy Plus Comedy Plus Melodrama in The InheritanceThree hours that are impossibly absorbing, and then three and a half more.
    By Helen Shaw
  19. theater
    The Morning Show Did a Surprise Sweeney Todd DuetJennifer Aniston and Billy Crudup give it their all on “Not While I’m Around.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  20. let us discuss
    Let Us Gather to Discuss Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats SongVulture staffers debate the new song from Cats.
    By Vulture Staff
  21. follies
    Hollywood’s Sondheim Fad Extends Further With the Promise of a Follies MovieDominic Cooke, who directed a recent London production, is up to direct the adaptation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. closing notices
    Broadway’s Tootsie Will Close in JanuaryThe show, starring Santino Fontana, won Tonys for Best Book and Best Actor.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. explainers
    High School Musical: The Musical: The Series: The Premise: The ExplanationThink of it as American Vandal meets Smash.
    By Jackson McHenry
  26. theater review
    Theater Review: Electric Jolts From a Jukebox in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical“The show rests on three pillars: the excellent production, the most galvanizing catalogue in showbiz, and Adrienne Warren.”
    By Helen Shaw
  27. theater review
    Theater Review: A Cyrano Without the Nose? Even If He Sings?Peter Dinklage plays the secret romancer in this musical adaptation.
    By Helen Shaw
  28. casting
    Tracy Letts’s The Minutes Is Coming to Broadway With Armie HammerPerformances begin at the Cort Theatre on February 25.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. theater review
    Theater: The Slow Launch and Rapid Rise of Dr. Ride’s American Beach HousePlus Radiohole’s Now Serving.
    By Helen Shaw
  30. broadway
    Annie-B Parson on Choreographing David Byrne’s American Utopia, Arm Chops & More“I’ve worked with him for so long that I can literally get in his body.”
    By Devon Ivie
  31. theater review
    Theater Review: Alas, Poor HamnetShakespeare’s son, who died at 11, now has a smartphone.
    By Helen Shaw
  32. thank goodness
    Kristin Chenoweth Knows Exactly How She Wants to Appear in the Wicked MovieShe’s also planning a “Glinda master class” as part of her Broadway show.
    By Jackson McHenry
  33. a soap operetta
    Watch This ’80s Patti LuPone Haunted Laundromat Video The New Yorker Dug UpImportant spooky musical theater history.
    By Jackson McHenry
  34. theater
    How Matthew Lopez Adapted Howards End Into the Queer Play The Inheritance“I consider this the ultimate in fan-fiction, basically,” says the playwright of his two-part, nearly seven-hour gay drama.
    By Jackson McHenry
  35. theater review
    Theater Review: Theresa Rebeck’s Seared Is a Pretty Light MealBackstage at a restaurant, romcom devices at play.
    By Helen Shaw
  38. theater reviews
    John Doyle’s Blankie Macbeth and Zawe Ashton’s Memorable for all the women…John Doyle’s severity, now with security blankets.
    By Helen Shaw
  39. theater review
    Theater Review: What If They Went to Moscow?, Where Stage and Screen MeldThe Man With a Movie Camera would’ve been astonished.
    By Helen Shaw
  40. sister act
    Galaxy Brain: Whoopi Goldberg Is Doing a Revival of the Sister Act MusicalThe production will play London’s Eventim Apollo in summer 2020.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. theater review
    Fire Burn and Fryolator Bubble: Scotland, PA, Is a McNugget-Size MacbethNot lovin’ it.
    By Helen Shaw
  42. chat room
    Corey Stoll, Nadia Bowers on the ‘Intimacy’ of Doing Macbeth As a Married Couple“He just wanted to make sure that we weren’t going to have pillow talk about it.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  43. theater review
    Theater Review: 43 Years On, for colored girls… Returns to the PublicNtozake Shange’s groundbreaking dance-play-poetry hybrid, staged anew a year after her death.
    By Helen Shaw
  44. black oklahoma!
    Watchmen’s Alternate Universe Has a New Spin on Oklahoma!Much like our world’s Sexy Oklahoma!, the series’ all-black production of the famed musical has social commentary on its mind.
    By Benjamin Lindsay
  45. theater review
    There Is a Party, Everyone Is There: David Byrne’s American Utopia on Broadway’American Utopia’ is “a concert so beautifully and completely choreographed that it’s also a dance piece.”
    By Helen Shaw
  46. theater review
    Theater Review: The Sound Inside Just Keeps Looking at ItselfAdam Rapp’s play, starring Mary-Louise Parker, can’t get out of its own head.
    By Helen Shaw
  47. theater review
    Theater Review: Little Shop of Horrors Is a Bouquet With BiteA superior combo: Big-Broadway talent, community-theater energy.
    By Helen Shaw
  50. theater review
    Theater Review: Teen Perseus Alights on West 48th in The Lightning ThiefThe YA novels come to Broadway, exuberantly.
    By Jackson McHenry
  51. broadway
    Hello! The Mrs. Doubtfire Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2020Starring Rob McClure.
    By Jackson McHenry
  52. theater review
    Theater Review: Trying to Locate The Rose TattooLesser Tennessee Williams, starring Marisa Tomei.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  53. theater review
    Theater Review: Flipping the Classic Musical Script in Soft PowerDavid Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori reverse Rodgers and Hammerstein.
    By Jackson McHenry
  54. theater review
    Theater Review: When Middle Age Goes Rough, in Linda VistaTracy Letts finds emotional vulnerability in a nearly wrecked man.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  55. full speed ahead
    Defying All Logic Michael Jackson Musical Will Hit Broadway Next SummerAn opening date has been announced.
    By Justin Curto
  56. revive parade i dare you
    Well, Hello, Carolee Carmello: Here She Is in Hello, Dolly!See a first look at Carmello in the show’s national tour.
    By Jackson McHenry
  57. theater review
    Theater Review: A Pop-Song Master Delivers The Wrong ManSongs by Ross Golan, belted out by Joshua Henry.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  58. succession
    J. Smith-Cameron Knows Why You Love GerriIt’s not just the smirk.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  59. the slap
    Anyway, Here’s Glenn Close Repeatedly Slapping a MentalistIt somehow helps Derren Brown count!
    By Jackson McHenry
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