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The Measureless Influence of Stephen Sondheim

 There was very little he thought a musical could not do. By Mark Harris
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Dear Evan Hansen Walks Through the Uncanny Valley, Ascends Anyway

 When the movie Dear Evan Hansen works, it’s working against the original musical’s platitudes and giving weight to its inherent brutality. By Helen Shaw
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Adrienne Warren Stands Up

 She opened in Tina so badly hurt she could barely walk. Then came another mountain to climb. By Jackson McHenry
  1. rip
    Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barbra Streisand, and More Pay Tribute to Stephen Sondheim“We love you. I love you. THANK YOU.”
    By Jennifer Zhan
  2. stephen sondheim
    Tonight’s Performance of Company Became a Tribute to Stephen SondheimHours after the composer’s unexpected death, cast and audience shared grief and affection.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  3. obits
    Stephen Sondheim, Legendary Composer and Lyricist, Dead at 91He was known for his work on popular musicals like Into the Woods, West Side Story, and Sweeney Todd.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  4. first person
    Frank Rich on His Friendship With Stephen SondheimA lifetime making sense of the extraordinary songwriter — as young fan; critic and “enemy”; and, by now, old friend.
    By Frank Rich
  5. tribute
    The Measureless Influence of Stephen SondheimThere was very little he thought a musical could not do.
    By Mark Harris
  7. theater review
    Clyde’s and In the Southern Breeze: Two Journeys Into LimboOne achieves what the other only describes — namely, the process of reawakening from paralysis.
    By Helen Shaw
  8. theater review
    Goofing Around With The AlchemistThe play brings one of the last ingredients for a true return to theater: pure nonsense.
    By Helen Shaw
  9. theater review
    Trouble In Mind Deserved Better All AlongIt takes the American theater to task.
    By Helen Shaw
  10. theater review
    Diana: The Musical Is Almost as Bad as Her MarriageA misbegotten match from the start.
    By Helen Shaw
  11. reunions
    Lea Michele Heads to HBO … for a Spring Awakening Reunion DocumentaryPremiering next year.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  12. theater review
    Theater Review: Assassins Takes Aim at the Here and NowThe Sondheim-Weidman musical is about desperate, damaged people turning their aggression on America itself. Remind you of anything?
    By Helen Shaw
  13. theater review
    Lagos Soaps and Superstitious Hopes: Nollywood Dreams and “The Pool Plays”Light and funny and weird on these dark days.
    By Helen Shaw
  14. theater review
    The Sharp-Edged Sword of while you were partyingHow dark can dark humor get?
    By Helen Shaw
  15. broadway
    The MTA Is Reviving a Classic Broadway Ad CampaignWith the theater reopening, its stars have once again taken to the subway.
    By Jackson McHenry
  16. theater review
    Ibsen’s Peer Gynt Becomes Eno’s Gnit, and Turns Gnomic, Gnostic and GnostalgicWill Eno keeps his distance from Ibsen, though.
    By Helen Shaw
  17. theater review
    The Risks and Rewards of Theater About Right NowThe Visitor rips itself apart, and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord will sew you back together.
    By Helen Shaw
  18. theater review
    Three Generations’ Inner Lives Come Out in Morning SunAnd you really ought to see Edie Falco, Blair Brown, and Marin Ireland as they do.
    By Helen Shaw
  19. theater review
    Back at the Scene of the Crimes: Revisiting Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992Anna Deavere Smith’s Rodney King testimonies return, restaged for this moment.
    By Helen Shaw
  20. reunions
    Lea Michele Returning to Broadway Anyway for Spring Awakening Reunion ConcertThe Funny Girl revival won’t rain on her parade.
    By Justin Curto
  21. theater review
    The Time Is Now, Finally, for Caroline, or ChangeTony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical was ahead of its audience in 2003.
    By Helen Shaw
  22. theater review
    The Mother Just Wants What’s Best For YouHave some Brecht, with Wooster sauce.
    By Helen Shaw
  23. theater review
    Fairycakes Never Takes FlightA play employing every theatrical sprite is pinned down by its leaden meter.
    By Helen Shaw
  24. theater review
    Dana H. Is Harrowing and UnmissableA big Broadway house doesn’t diminish any of its power.
    By Helen Shaw
  25. broadway
    Schitt’s Creek’s Noah Reid Replaces Armie Hammer in Broadway’s The MinutesThe play plans to return in March.
    By Jackson McHenry
  26. theater review
    The Lehman Trilogy (Almost) Delivers on Its InvestmentPeerless stagecraft and a once-in-a-lifetime cast.
    By Helen Shaw
  27. theater review
    Multidimensional Blackness in Thoughts of a Colored ManIt’s “explicitly about making visible what’s usually kept private.”
    By Helen Shaw
  28. funny girls
    Funny Girl Star Beanie Feldstein Doesn’t ‘Know’ Lea Michele ‘Whatsoever’And she “didn’t understand” why Michele’s name was trending when she was cast in the show.
    By Justin Curto
  29. theater review
    Is This a Room Asks Questions America Can’t AnswerThe play about Reality Winner moves uptown.
    By Helen Shaw
  30. theater review
    Chicken & Biscuits Serves Up Sustenance at a Church FuneralWith a side of syrup.
    By Helen Shaw
  31. theater review
    The Many Voices of a One-Man Show: Lackawanna BluesRuben Santiago-Hudson’s evocation of his steel-town youth.
    By Helen Shaw
  32. institutions
    The Flea Theater Announces New, Transformed SelfThe Off–Off Broadway theater is reformatting its mission after internal furor last year.
    By Jackson McHenry
  33. casting call
    Jane Lynch, Ramin Karimloo Join the Broadway Revival of Funny GirlPerformances start on March 26, 2022.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  34. trailer mix
    The Nose Goes in the Cyrano Trailer Starring Peter DinklageAlongside Haley Bennett, Kelvin Harrison Jr., and Ben Mendelsohn.
    By Zoe Haylock
  35. trailer mix
    The Tick, Tick … BOOM! Trailer Is Two and a Half Minutes of Impostor SyndromePlus, listen to the cast recording of “30/90.”
    By Justin Curto
  36. theater review
    Pop Renaissance! Six: The Musical Fans Lose Their Heads Over Broadway OpeningDeferred, beleaguered, survived.
    By Helen Shaw
  37. theater reviews
    Figuring Out Failure in the First Person: The Nosebleed and HindsightIn these two plays, things aren’t going great.
    By Helen Shaw
  38. dance review
    Bill T. Jones’s Deep Blue Sea Includes Everything and the Kitchen SinkA piece of art that’s awash in its own ideas.
    By Helen Shaw
  39. casting
    Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga Will Star in Macbeth on BroadwayWickedly coming this way in March.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. the music man
    A Trump Aide Would Play ‘Memory’ When He Needed to Calm DownYes, the Cats song.
    By Justin Curto
  41. vulture recommends
    Please Watch the Unfiltered Joy Machine That Is The Goes Wrong ShowThe second season premieres on September 27.
    By Michelle Cohn
  42. tony awards 2021
    The Tonys That Had to Do EverythingAfter 2020, Broadway vowed to do better. Last night’s telecast revealed the divisions that remain.
    By Helen Shaw
  43. broadway
    Slave Play Is Chasing Its Tony Losses With a Return to BroadwayThe play will move to the August Wilson Theatre in November.
    By Justin Curto
  44. tony awards 2021
    The Highs and Lows of the 2021 But Actually 2019–2020 Tony AwardsAnd I am telling you I don’t know how to use Paramount+.
    By Jackson McHenry and Helen Shaw
  45. the industry
    Jagged Little Pill Actors Call Out Production’s Treatment of Trans CastOne actor said the team “intimidated” them to delay a surgery during previews.
    By Justin Curto
  46. tony awards 2021
    Moulin Rouge! and The Inheritance Win Big at the 74th Annual Tony AwardsBroadway’s back, baby!
    By Zoe Haylock
  47. tony awards
    You Can Watch (Most of) the 74th Annual Tony Awards Only on Paramount+This split schedule is a bit tricky. Let us explain.
    By Savannah Salazar
  48. theater review
    Bond and Costanzo, Emotions Laid Bare, in Only an Octave ApartIf you clap hard enough — and you’d better — you’ll hear their encore, a mash-up of “Walk Like an Egyptian” and Philip Glass’s Akhnaten.
    By Helen Shaw
  49. rip
    Roger Michell, Director of Notting Hill, Dead at 65He also helmed the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
    By Rebecca Alter
  50. obits
    Godfather of Black Cinema Melvin Van Peebles Has DiedThe writer, director, and Baadasssss was 89.
    By Bethy Squires
  51. theater review
    Sanctuary City Isn’t Always a RefugeAn undocumented-immigration story that takes a sharp turn.
    By Helen Shaw
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