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  1. theater review
    Theater Review: The Loopy, Barbed Office Satire of Do You Feel Anger?An empathy expert comes to a collections firm.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. roll clip!
    Enjoy Eva Noblezada’s Epic Take on ‘Go the Distance’Heroic!
    By Jackson McHenry
  3. back on top
    Patti LuPone Arrives on Twitter to Announce She Cannot Be Contained by It“Fuck that.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. theater
    Frank Rich: Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K.A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.
    By Frank Rich
  5. dandy fops
    Ralph Fiennes Is an Extremely Fancy BoyHe has an Italian villa where he goes to read!
    By Bethy Squires
  7. theater review
    Theater Review: Debating What the Constitution Means to MeOur theater critic and Supreme Court correspondent parse the show’s transfer to Broadway.
    By Sara Holdren and Irin Carmon
  8. theater review
    Theater Review: A Julius Caesar That’s All Noble IdeasThe cast is cast.
    By Sara Holdren
  9. egots
    Rita Moreno Will ‘PEGOT’ With Her New Peabody AwardThe Peabody Awards are clearly One Day at a Time fans.
    By Bethy Squires
  10. theater review
    Theater Review: Turning the Crash Into Entertainment With The Lehman TrilogyThe lead-up to the downfall.
    By Sara Holdren
  11. theater review
    Theater Review: Ain’t No Mo’ Is a Biting Farce That Takes FlightJordan Cooper’s new play is a suite of comic sketches.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. roll clip!
    Enjoy a Close-Up View of My Fair Lady’s ‘Get Me to the Church on Time’Look inside “Get Me to the Church on Time.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. broadway
    A Princess Bride Musical Is Looking More … ConceivableDavid Yazbek is working on the music, while Bob Martin and Rick Elice are writing the book.
    By Jackson McHenry
  16. broadway
    Sutton Foster Will Return to Broadway As Marian in Hugh Jackman’s The Music ManThe show opens October 2020.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. theater
    High School That Staged Alien: the Play Should Be in Charge of the Next SequelMeanwhile, your class is stumbling and bumbling through the Oklahoma dream ballet.
    By Halle Kiefer
  18. broadway
    Chilli and T-Boz Are Working on a TLC Broadway MusicalThe surviving members of TLC are writing new music for their Broadway debut.
    By Bethy Squires
  19. theater review
    Theater Review: A Temptations Bio-Musical and What Coulda BeenAin’t Too Proud: unbeatable songs and not much drama.
    By Sara Holdren
  20. theater review
    Theater Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’s White Noise Is Sneakily, Subtly RadicalWith the amazing Daveed Diggs at its center.
    By Sara Holdren
  21. spring preview
    Spring Theater Preview: Hadestown, Heidi Schreck, and More We Can’t Wait to SeeSo many plays!
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. movies
    Broadway Musical Jekyll and Hyde Is Becoming a MovieThis *is* the moment.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  23. theater
    Oklahoma!’s Ali Stroker on Wheelchair Choreography and SexinessThe actress talks about backstage accessibility and sex appeal on wheels.
    By Esme Mazzeo
  26. behind the scenes
    When a Theater Reviewer Becomes the One Being ReviewedI was this magazine’s theater critic. Now I’ve co-written Broadway’s Beetlejuice: The Musical. Those jobs have one big thing in common.
    By Scott Brown
  27. theater
    Avid Theatergoer Hillary Clinton Went to See the Gloria Steinem PlayDiane von Furstenberg and Steinem herself were also in attendance.
    By Jackson McHenry
  28. theater review
    Theater Review: Can Kiss Me, Kate Survive a 2019 Gaze?Kelli O’Hara is nearly superhuman, and the highs in the show are very high. But you can’t get away from that script.
    By Sara Holdren
  29. theater
    Amy Schumer and Richard Jenkins to Star Movie Version of Tony-Winning The HumansThe cast includes Jayne Houdyshell and Steven Yeun.
    By Katie Rothstein and Jackson McHenry
  30. broadway
    Greatest Showman Hugh Jackman Is Coming Back to Broadway in The Music ManHarold Hill arrives October 2020.
    By Jackson McHenry
  31. theater
    A Britney Spears Musical Is Coming to Chicago on Its Way to BroadwayOnce Upon a One More Time melds fairy tales with Britney with The Feminine Mystique.
    By Jackson McHenry
  32. chat room
    Justice Smith on Acting With Isabelle Huppert and Detective PikachuSmith plays Huppert’s son in Florian Zeller’s The Mother.
    By Jackson McHenry
  33. theater review
    Theater Review: Be More Chill Does High-School Drama With Knowing WickednessA story that casts a realistic eye on the cruelties of youth, and on the way graduating from high school doesn’t mean the end of our insecurities.
    By Sara Holdren
  34. theater review
    Theater Review: Restrained Power in If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka“There’s a disturbing, powerful play hiding inside Tori Sampson’s If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka, but it hasn’t worked its way out yet.”
    By Sara Holdren
  35. spring theater
    In King Lear, Glenda Jackson Conquers Her Everest“You’re seeing something you’ll never see again,” Sam Gold says of directing her in the title role on Broadway.
    By Jackson McHenry
  38. theater review
    Review Roundup: At St. Ann’s, The B-Side Gives Voice to Forgotten MenPlus two well-intentioned misses.
    By Sara Holdren
  39. spring theater
    How Viral Sensation Be More Chill Hopes to Become Broadway’s Next Big ThingIt’s about high school, friendship, and an evil singing algorithm — how could it miss?
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. profile
    How to Fuck With White SupremacyWith “Daddy” and Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris does exactly that (sometimes literally).
    By E. Alex Jung
  41. theater review
    Theater Review: Surface Tension by the Pool, in Jeremy O. Harris’s “Daddy”Louche life in Beverly Hills.
    By Sara Holdren
  42. broadway
    TV’s Nashville Is Being Developed as a Broadway MusicalIt’ll have all-new music — sorry, “Telescope” stans.
    By Jackson McHenry
  43. photography
    How Ethan Hawke Transforms Into a ‘Cowboy’ Drifter for True West“When you’re doing eight shows a week, the life of an actor becomes very similar to the life of an athlete.”
    By Hunter Harris
  44. spring theater
    Tony Kushner and Heidi Schreck Talk About What the Constitution Means to MeIn advance of Constitution’s transfer to Broadway, Kushner and Schreck talk about his favorite new play and its reverberations large and small.
    By Sara Holdren
  45. broadway
    Andrea Martin Exits Broadway’s Gary After Breaking Ribs in RehearsalCast member Kristine Nielsen will replace her.
    By Jackson McHenry
  46. last night on late night
    SNL’s Spiritual Sequel to ‘Diner Lobster’ Is All About Bodega BathroomsJohn Mulaney strikes again.
    By Devon Ivie
  47. theater review
    Theater Review: Does Superhero Get Off the Ground?Theater Review: Does Superhero Get Off the Ground?
    By Sara Holdren
  50. the glennaissance
    Glenn Close’s Sunset Boulevard Musical Has Found Its Mr. DeMilleRob Ashford is attached to direct the film based on the 1994 musical adaptation of the 1950 film.
    By Bethy Squires
  51. documentary now
    How Documentary Now Made the Sondheim-Alike Musical Co-opCo-writer John Mulaney and composer Eli Bolin share the stories behind Original Cast Album: Co-Op.
    By Jackson McHenry
  52. theater review
    Theater Review: Creepers in Wonderland, in Alice by HeartShe’s late, apparently, for a very important date.
    By Sara Holdren
  53. theater review
    Theater Review: The Tightly Packed Power of Marys Seacole“An act of remembrance for the unremembered … a fierce, complex eulogy.”
    By Sara Holdren
  54. theater review
    Theater Review: Hurricane Diane, a Tragicomedy of Eco-CollapseA climate-saving tale that somehow reaches from ancient Greece to the housewives of Monmouth County, New Jersey.
    By Sara Holdren
  55. theater review
    Theater Review: Discovery and Rediscovery in By the Way, Meet Vera StarkAn overlooked (imagined) actress stands in for hundreds of lost Hollywood stories.
    By Sara Holdren
  56. theater review
    Theater Review: Fiasco Theater’s Lo-fi Reconstruction of Merrily We Roll AlongHow does it happen? Where is the moment?
    By Sara Holdren
  57. the theater
    Panic Erupts at Hamilton Performance Because of False Active Shooter ThreatMultiple people were injured as a result.
    By Devon Ivie
  58. theater review
    Theater Review: The Tasteful Goodness of Sea Wall and A LifeJake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge do some tear-jerking at the Public.
    By Sara Holdren
  59. broadway
    Michael Jackson Musical Cancels Chicago TryoutProducers blamed an Actors’ Equity strike.
    By Jackson McHenry
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