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Oh God, A Show About Abortion Could Not Be More Relevant

 Alison 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
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for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant Revival

 The dance-theater gem still glows. By Helen Shaw
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American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author Issue

 It’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite. By Helen Shaw
  1. theater review
    Who Killed My Father: Elegy Saturated With ClichéÉdouard Louis’s memoir has been bizarrely and frustratingly staged.
    By Helen Shaw
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. theater review
    A Cherry Orchard That Chops Down Most of the TreesChucking out the familiar in search of the truth.
    By Helen Shaw
  5. 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
  7. 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
  8. rip
    Bruce MacVittie, New York Theater Mainstay, Dead at 65MacVittie got his big break playing opposite Al Pacino in American Buffalo.
    By Bethy Squires
  9. 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
  10. stage whisperer
    The Winners and Rained-on Parades of This Year’s Tony NomineesCongrats to A Strange Loop!
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. theater review
    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. monarchism
    Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are CollabingTheir latest controversial muse? Queen Elizabeth II.
    By Bethy Squires
  18. tony awards 2022
    West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose Will Host the 2022 Tony AwardsGive us dance numbers!
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. dinosaurs
    Paleontology! at the Vivian BeaumontPuppet designer James Ortiz on The Skin of Our Teeth’s big creatures.
    By Jackson McHenry
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. theater review
    Something Distanced This Way Comes: Craig and Negga in MacbethCelebrity squares off against experiment, from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane.
    By Helen Shaw
  23. theater review
    POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night Mine Laughs From Behind the ScenesTwo comedies about the business of image-making.
    By Helen Shaw
  24. the word of her body
    Lea Michele Is the Guilty One (of Oversharing About Jonathan Groff)On occasion of HBO’s Spring Awakening doc, Those You’ve Known.
    By Justin Curto
  25. theater review
    A Strange Loop Moves to Broadway, Its Furious Energy Changed But IntactMichael R. Jackson’s metamusical masterpiece spins forward.
    By Helen Shaw
  26. eleka namen namen
    After Years of Not Making a Wicked Movie, They Now Want TwoWhy couldn’t they stay calm for once instead of flying off the handle?
    By Jackson McHenry
  27. theater review
    The Skin of Our Teeth Is No DinosaurSure, some of the humor is dated. But that third act is anything but.
    By Helen Shaw
  28. theater review
    If Someone Takes a Spill: Funny Girl ReturnsBeanie Feldstein takes the titular role.
    By Helen Shaw
  29. tony awards
    The Tonys Delay Nomination Announcements Due to Broadway ‘Challenges’Could this be the curse of M*cbeth?
    By Ashley Shannon Wu
  30. theater review
    In Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, Cruelty Provides the MuseIn this tale of an executioner in 1960s England, a master of the mean joke turns laughs against the viewer.
    By Helen Shaw
  31. rip
    Robert Morse, Mad Men and Broadway Star, Dead at 90“The moon belongs to everyone.”
    By Ashley Shannon Wu
  32. theater review
    for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant RevivalThe dance-theater gem still glows.
    By Helen Shaw
  33. theater review
    The Predatory Dance of How I Learned to DrivePaula Vogel’s play still manages to make the unbearable watchable — thanks in part to Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse.
    By Helen Shaw
  34. theater review
    The Minutes on Broadway Feels a Few Years Too LateThere was a time when Tracy Letts’s play, about a city council with a secret, felt prescient. But real life has outstripped its satire.
    By Helen Shaw
  35. castings
    Grammy Winner Jon Batiste Makes Acting Debut in Color Purple FilmThe Album of the Year winner joins Ciara, H.E.R. , and Halle Bailey.
    By Justin Curto
  36. understudies
    All Right, Which One of You Said ‘Macbeth’ in This Theater?Broadway director Sam Gold filled in onstage with a hand mic for actors out with the ’rona.
    By Rebecca Alter
  37. theater review
    American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author IssueIt’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite.
    By Helen Shaw
  38. theater review
    No Nose, Yes Delts: James McAvoy Is Our Generation’s Great CyranoYou will not (and I cannot) get over this performance.
    By Helen Shaw
  39. life in pictures
    Sexy CyranoBehind the scenes at BAM with James McAvoy as he brings a smoldering version of de Bergerac Stateside.
    Photographs by Pari Dukovic
  40. theater review
    The Little Prince Crash-lands on This PlanetNon.
    By Helen Shaw
  41. last night on late night
    We Almost Got a Version of Funny Girl Starring Sandra BernhardIt would have been the titular role.
    By Bethy Squires
  42. theater review
    Birthday Candles, With Debra Messing, Is Not Much of a PartyThere’s too much sugar in that cake she bakes.
    By Helen Shaw
  43. announcements
    Introducing Stage Whisperer, a New Theater NewsletterWeekly theater news, delivered a little louder for the people in the back.
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. theater review
    Suffs Casts a Complicated Vote for a Complicated HistoryVotes for women, soberly musicalized.
    By Helen Shaw
  45. theater review
    Does Take Me Out Still Hit the Strike Zone?Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about a gay baseball superstar returns.
    By Helen Shaw
  46. theater review
    The Multiple Original Sins of Paradise SquareOver-workshopped and yet still under-theatricalized.
    By Helen Shaw
  47. theater review
    Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things Sings the Universe ElectricA hymn to the elemental life cycle.
    By Helen Shaw
  48. theater review
    Plaza Suite Contains the Bleakest Comedy I’ve Seen in YearsParker and Broderick drown the pangs of middle age in room-service Champagne.
    By Helen Shaw
  49. oral history
    How Blue Man Group Blew UpAn oral history of the wildly successful show, starring strange bald men painted in Yves Klein blue.
    By Molly Langmuir
  50. theater review
    Confederates Does Battle With Two Peculiar InstitutionsToggling between the antebellum south and the academy today.
    By Helen Shaw
  51. theater review
    Help Is an Essay Dressed Up As a PlayProfessor Claudia Rankine looks for America’s soul in its airports.
    By Helen Shaw
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