Theater

  1. this girl is on broadway
    Alicia Keys Is in a Broadway State of MindHell’s Kitchen, which premiered this fall at the Public, is moving to the Shubert Theatre.
    By Zoe Guy
  2. theater review
    A Decent Docent: Gavin Creel’s Walk on ThroughA tour from a “museum novice” that’s also an autobiography.
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. dramaturgically
    Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli Move From HBO to BroadwayWith Netflix queen Victoria Pedretti in Amy Herzog’s Ibsen adaptation, An Enemy of the People.
    By Jason P. Frank
  4. reasons to love new york
    The Three Frank Jrs. in Merrily We Roll Along Will Sign Your PlaybillBackstage with the boys charming sold-out Broadway shows.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. theater review
    The Echo From the Days of ’39: Jen Silverman’s SpainA cool treatment of a once-hot civil war.
    By Sara Holdren
  7. obits
    Tony-Winning Actress Frances Sternhagen Dies at 93She also played endless difficult mothers on television.
    By Bethy Squires
  8. scene report
    ‘I Just Felt Pressure’At a performance of Milo Cramer’s School Pictures, teens and teachers talk about the torturous process of applying to New York’s selective schools.
    By Rachel Sklar
  9. comedy review
    Mike Birbiglia’s Existential ExercisesIn his Broadway show The Old Man and the Pool, the comedian dives into the anxieties of aging.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  10. exclusive
    Ani DiFranco Is Heading Way Down to Hadestown on BroadwayIn an interview, Anaïs Mitchell calls the latest Persephone casting “an almost unimaginable full-circle situation.”
    By Rebecca Alter
  11. theater review
    At Playwrights Horizons, a Tinge of the FringeAmusements, School Pictures, and Sad Boys in Harpy Land are running in repertory.
    By Sara Holdren
  12. theater review
    The Gardens of Anuncia Is a Musical That Thinks SmallBased on Graciela Daniele’s life story, it deliberately leaves her as a secondary character.
    By Jackson McHenry
  13. the essay
    Billy Porter Is Ready to Speak on ItHe spent decades dazzling in performances before he could be himself in public. He’s making up for lost time.
    By Mikelle Street
  14. theater review
    Hell’s Kitchen: A Familiar Diary of Alicia KeysConventional musical-theater turf, made fresh by killer performances.
    By Sara Holdren
  15. theater review
    Who Thought Stoppard Needs More Sex?Bedlam’s Arcadia falls into an easy trap.
    By Sara Holdren
  16. theater review
    Spamalot Returns, and It’s Not Dead YetSay no more!
    By Sara Holdren
  17. theater review
    Is Anything Real in Scene Partners? Is Everything?John J. Caswell Jr.’s script is like an Escher drawing, endlessly spiraling in on itself.
    By Sara Holdren
  18. gwynnocent
    Gwyneth Paltrow Ski Trial Enters the Camp CanonIn Gwyneth Goes Skiing, a London musical by “harbingers of queer chaos.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  19. theater review
    That’s the Idea, Let’s Amuse Each Other! Shannon and Sparks in Waiting for GodotMichael Shannon and Paul Sparks foreground the funny in Beckett.
    By Sara Holdren
  20. chekhov’s sitcom
    Uncle Vanya Is Basically a Situation ComedySteve Carell and William Jackson Harper lead the cast of the upcoming Uncle Vanya revival.
    By Jason P. Frank
  21. theater review
    Navigating the Expanses of Danny and the Deep Blue SeaChristopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza star in the 1983 John Patrick Shanley play that’s beloved of young actors.
    By Sara Holdren
  22. theater review
    The Day the Clowns Cried: HarmonyThe rise of the Nazi regime, recounted in a Cabaret-adjacent musical with songs by Barry Manilow.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. life is a cabaret (again)
    What Is New York Without a Cabaret Revival Running at All Times?The West End Cabaret is crossing the pond in spring 2024.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. theater review
    Tragic Losses, of Life and Language, in Watch Night and TranslationsThe destruction wrought by colonialism and racism, rendered onstage in very different ways.
    By Sara Holdren
  25. rip
    Sleep No More No MoreThe immersive-theater production will end after the upcoming 5,000th performance.
    By Jason P. Frank
  26. the tina fey extended universe
    Mean Girls The Musical Movie Has a New Gen of Queen Bees and WannabeesBut none of the musical’s original songs in the trailer.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  27. theater
    The Making of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’s Savage RomanceChristopher Abbott and Aubrey Plaza play messed-up people in love.
    By Nate Jones
  28. replacements
    Hello Chickens! Boy George Is Entering the Moulin Rouge!Playing Harold Zidler and thus coming in brief contact with the music of his former “nemesis” Pete Burns.
    By Jason P. Frank
  29. theater review
    What’ll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It.A farcical, funny, and haunting commentary on the industrialized, globalized diet.
    By Sara Holdren
  30. *cello playing intensifies*
    Grant Gustin to Warble in Water for ElephantsHeading to Broadway this spring.
    By Jason P. Frank
  31. theater review
    Sabbath’s Theater Can’t Get Out of Its HeadAn adaptation of Philip Roth ends up feeling uncharacteristically tame.
    By Jackson McHenry
  32. theater review
    I Need That Does Not Spark JoyDanny and Lucy DeVito, as an almost-hoarder and his daughter, are trapped in a play full of junk.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. theater review
    Bring a Bucket and a Mop for This Snatch & TaintyA juicy, joyful, bodily-function-obsessed trip below the belt.
    By Sara Holdren
  34. theater review
    The ‘Yes, We Can’ Spirit of Poor Yella RednecksQui Nguyen’s optimistic, funny immigration tale.
    By Sara Holdren
  35. theater review
    The Box-Checking Work Begins: Merry MeA self-described lesbian sex comedy leans on its Angels in America references.
    By Sara Holdren
  36. theater
    Money, Love, and Music, All at Odds in I Can Get It for You WholesaleAn underseen musical revived, full of intriguing contradictions.
    By Jackson McHenry
  37. casting call
    The Gilded Age Summons Broadway to Fifth AvenueCasting directors Bernie Telsey and Adam Caldwell explain how they fill the show with oh so many Tony nominees.
    By Jackson McHenry
  38. no place like broadway
    Superboy and Marian the Librarian Will Take Over Sweeney ToddSutton Foster and Aaron Tveit are stepping into Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban’s roles.
    By Jason P. Frank
  39. art deco
    Rachel Chavkin Is Still in Broadway Beast ModeLempicka, directed by Chavkin, is coming to Broadway just months before her new Gatsby musical premieres in Boston.
    By Jason P. Frank
  40. theater review
    Stereophonic Goes Its Own Way, and Finds Its GrooveA very Rumours rock saga immerses you in the act of creation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  41. theater review
    Covenant Is Best When It’s At Its PulpiestWhy aren’t there more plays that lean into being genre horror?
    By Sara Holdren
  42. stage whisperer
    Ari and Ethan and a Bowl of GuacWicked celebrates 20 years, and everyone’s painting the town green. Also, Sondheim delivers a compelling final message.
    By Vulture Staff
  43. theater
    Still Popular: Chenoweth and Menzel Talk ‘Wicked’For Wicked’s 20th anniversary on Broadway, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel reunite to talk about high notes, low rumors, and onstage emergencies.
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. theater review
    Make Like a Tree: Renae Simone Jarrett’s DaphneOvid’s telling of the myth, reimagined.
    By Sara Holdren
  45. theater review
    The Last Midnight: Sondheim and Ives’s ‘Here We Are’A strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master.
    By Sara Holdren
  46. stage whisperer
    A New Golden Age for Musicals About Two GuysPlus: Shucked nears the end, Merrily’s price tag, and echoes of Oh, Hello.
    By Vulture Staff
  47. theater review
    Language As Engine: Helen. and MahineratorA feminist Trojan War parable and a monologue that leaps right over the desk to grab you.
    By Sara Holdren
  48. the thee-ay-ter
    Broadway’s Getting AppropriateElle Fanning and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Broadway debut.
    By Jason P. Frank
  49. theater review
    How It Went Down, Revised: Salesman之死 and Room, Room, Room …Two plays that find power in strange historical corners.
    By Sara Holdren
  50. stage whisperer
    Kellyoke Broadway Week Would Change the WorldMerrily is off and rolling, a certain someone might be eyeing the stage, and Spongebob’s enduring mess. It’s a gala celebration!
    By Vulture Staff
  51. theater review
    A Full, Fierce Day in Sean O’Casey’s DublinA six-hour, three-play DruidO’Casey marathon where the ’20s rhyme with ours, unsettlingly.
    By Sara Holdren
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