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Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Are Lovers Playing Fighters Onstage

 In Medea, an avant-garde take on the Greek tragedy. By Jackson McHenry
in conversation

Ellen Burstyn Talks Her Dogs, Cosmology, and Co-hosting Inside the Actors Studio

 In conversation with the legend of stage and screen. By Matt Zoller Seitz
25 days of cats

An Oral History of Cats, As Told by Its Original Cats

 “It became this joke. But it was the most spectacular thing of its time.” By Molly Langmuir
  1. theater review
    Scary Stuff: Paris and The Woman in BlackOn a proscenium at the Atlantic, and in the McKittrick Hotel.
    By Helen Shaw
  2. theater review
    The Sparkle and Glow of Grand HorizonsStarring national treasures Jane Alexander and James Cromwell, not to mention Michael Urie’s contortionist reactions.
    By Helen Shaw
  3. ouroboros
    Mean Girls the Movie the Musical to Become Mean Girls the Movie MusicalOctober 3 is actually Groundhog Day, apparently.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  4. chat room
    With Grand Horizons, Ben McKenzie Is Getting Back Into TheaterThe O.C. and Gotham star is making his debut on Broadway.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. theater
    Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Are Lovers Playing Fighters OnstageIn Medea, an avant-garde take on the Greek tragedy.
    By Jackson McHenry
  7. theater review
    A Soldier’s Play Is a Procedural With BiteDavid Alan Grier’s performance “has size and precision, monstrosity and humanity.”
    By Helen Shaw
  8. theater review
    A Timon of Athens for the Age of Peter Thiel“We know what the wealthy do when they feel cheated and insulted.”
    By Helen Shaw
  9. theater reviews
    Just Talk But Sometimes More: The Conversationalists and The Truth Has ChangedThe pleasures, and pitfalls, of pure narration theater.
    By Helen Shaw
  10. we stan an option up
    Girl Belting As High As She Can on Twitter Is a Talented Person, Grant Her Grace“We all lost our minds a little.”
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  11. theater review
    My Name Is Lucy Barton Comes to Broadway As a Glum, Gray DudThis adaptation of Elizabeth Strout’s novel is a dull lesson in the difference between what’s needed on the page and on the stage.
    By Helen Shaw
  14. broadway
    Idina Menzel Might Be Starring in Funny Girl on BroadwayPlease, theater gods, do not rain on this particular parade.
    By Charu Sinha
  15. theater review
    What’s Over the Top at the Under the Radar Festival?Plus Richard Maxwell’s Queens Row, at the Kitchen.
    By Helen Shaw
  16. the grub street diet
    Hadestown Creator Anaïs Mitchell Gets Down With Fancy Jams“I was so excited to try this small-batch pear-rosemary compote.”
    By Chris Crowley
  17. q&a
    Jagged Little Pill’s Lauren Patten Will Not Admit That She Steals the ShowTalking about coming out and also Connecticut Muffin.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  18. live musicals
    Of All Possible Musicals, ABC Has Decided to Do Young Frankenstein Live!The musical ran on Broadway from 2007 to 2009.
    By Jackson McHenry
  19. broadway
    Fran Drescher and Rachel Bloom Are Working on a Musical Version of The NannySuch joie de vivre.
    By Jackson McHenry
  20. appreciations
    Alice Childress Didn’t Defang Her Plays, and Producers Said NoAny list of great American playwrights is incomplete without her — she saw deep into history, into the theater, into blackness, into whiteness.
    By Helen Shaw
  21. musicals
    The Sing Street Musical and Its Irish Teens Are Heading to Broadway This SpringDrive the Lyceum like you stole it.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. what were the 2010s?
    The Decade in Theater: Six Closing ThoughtsSpidey and Hamilton, Gatz and Is This a Room and Slave Play, and so much more.
    By Helen Shaw
  23. obits
    Jerry Herman, Hello, Dolly! Composer and Lyricist, Is Dead at 88“I write songs that I hope will still be hummed years from now.”
    By Zoe Haylock
  26. music here music there
    Behind the Music of John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch Composer Eli Bolin, who also wrote the music for Co-op, walks us through the new special.
    By Jackson McHenry
  27. in conversation
    Ellen Burstyn Talks Her Dogs, Cosmology, and Co-hosting Inside the Actors StudioIn conversation with the legend of stage and screen.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  28. 25 days of cats
    An Oral History of Cats, As Told by Its Original Cats“It became this joke. But it was the most spectacular thing of its time.”
    By Molly Langmuir
  29. best of 2019
    The Best Theater of 2019Avant-garde weirdness, a cozy ideal revival, and a spectacular musical about race and gay sex.
    By Helen Shaw
  30. theater review
    A New Order for Sing Street, Now Adapted for the StageI just can’t get enough.
    By Helen Shaw
  31. what were the 2010s?
    The Book of Mormon and Hamilton Already Feel Like They’re From Another TimeA fresh look at the decade’s biggest Broadway smashes.
    By Helen Shaw
  32. 25 days of cats
    The Plot of Cats: A Lesson in Garbage and CraftDickinson creator Alena Smith reflects on what the inscrutable tale of a junkyard filled with cats can teach us about storytelling.
    By Alena Smith
  33. theater review
    I Took Kids to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. They Saw Things I Missed.I borrowed two children for the afternoon and watched the show through their eyes as well as my own.
    By Helen Shaw
  34. theater review
    At the Armory, Judgment Day Shows Its Cast No MercyAnd in Brooklyn, JACK lands in a congenial new space.
    By Helen Shaw
  35. theater review
    The Thin Place Is a Horror Drama That You Think You’ll Forget, Then Won’tAt the edge between reality and something else.
    By Helen Shaw
  38. theater review
    Harry Connick Jr. Brings the Tick-Tick-Tick of Cole Porter Back to BroadwayAlso some awkward theatrics—but the core of the evening is the de-lovely band and that voice.
    By Helen Shaw
  39. 25 days of cats
    Never Forget: Cats Was Once the Longest-Running Show on BroadwayIn 1997, New York turned to a numerologist to make sense of the musical’s popularity. Here’s what she said.
    By Jennifer Senior
  40. trailer mix
    In the Heights Trailer: Lin-Manuel Miranda Ventures Back UptownCrazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu helms the movie-musical adaptation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. chat room
    Patrick Stewart Is Revisiting Two Roles, in Christmas Carol and PicardHow he hope two lifelong projects will speak to the present.
    By Jackson McHenry
  42. theater review
    Theater Review: Greater Clements, a Small-Town Drama Without the TownDown into the midwestern darkness, at a little spot that’s about to disappear from the map.
    By Helen Shaw
  43. closing noticies
    Sorry, TikTok Fans, Broadway’s Beetlejuice to Be Booted From TheaterThe Music Man is reportedly a-comin’ in after it.
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. theater review
    Theater Review: Daniel Kitson Keeps Only Things That Spark No Joy WhatsoeverA monologuist who can’t stop interrogating himself and us.
    By Helen Shaw
  45. 25 days of cats
    Let Us Gather to Discuss Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats SongIt’s Golden Globe-nominated, folks!
    By Vulture Staff
  46. theater review
    Theater Review: Jagged Little Pill Is Missing the Essence of AlanisWasn’t she iconic?
    By Helen Shaw
  47. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
  52. 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
  53. theater review
    London Theater Review: My Brilliant Friend, in Five Hours Onstage, Still PlayfulElena Ferrante’s four books become four acts.
    By Frankie Thomas
  54. theater reviews
    The Wild Invention of Fefu and Her Friends and A Bright Room Called DayFornés and Kushner, wild inventors both.
    By Helen Shaw
  55. theater reviews
    The Understated Charms of The Underlying Chris, and a High-Decibel CrucibleWill Eno, produced quietly, and Arthur Miller, not.
    By Helen Shaw
  56. michael jackson
    Ephraim Sykes to Star in Michael Jackson Musical That’s Somehow Still HappeningIt will open August 13, 2020.
    By Jackson McHenry
  57. theater review
    Theater Review: A Christmas Carol Gets a Cute Scrooge With Daddy IssuesIs this the Ghost of Broadway Future?
    By Helen Shaw
  58. casting
    Timothée Chalamet Is Taking His Talents to the StageHe’s set to star in an Amy Herzog play.
    By Zoe Haylock
  59. 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
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