The Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations By Adam Sternbergh

Where does the new A Chorus Line sit on the current buzz index?

Madcap Maverick: Swoosie Kurtz By Boris Kachka

Channeling the Grey Ghosts By Boris Kachka

Christine Ebersole chats about-and with-Little Edie Beale.

But Is the Cast Album on Vinyl? By Jada Yuan

All the World's a Stage By Emily Nussbaum

Julianne Moore on her role in David Hare's international-studies play The Vertical Hour-and how she almost skipped her return to Broadway.

Company's Coming By Jeremy McCarter

John Doyle made waves when he gave Patti LuPone a tuba for Sweeney Todd. Will it work for "The Ladies Who Lunch"?

A Long-Lost Love By Meryl Gordon

Ali MacGraw comes out of hiding to appear on Broadway for the first time.

Marathon Man By Boris Kachka

Brace yourself, Stoppard fans: The master brings a nine-hour drama to Lincoln Center.

She's Got Way by Laura Shapiro

What sounds like Billy Joel (on a roll) and looks like Twyla Tharp (on a tear)? Movin' Out, Tharp's sexually charged, full-throttle dance show based on Billy's greatest hits. Is it a new kin…

Twyla's in the Basement, Mixing Up the Medicine By Rebecca Milzoff

The Ten-Percent Solution By Boris Kachka

A Berlitz Guide to BAM By Boris Kachka

Belle Curves

Once a Broadway breakout star, Sara Ramirez is finally living large on Gray's Anatomy.

Theater Preview: The Best of the Rest

The return of Nathan Lane, Eve Ensler, A Chorus Line, and more.

Star Crossed by Ada Calhoun

Putting a Nicole or Melanie on Broadway was once a sure bet. This season, it�s curtains.

New York Minute: Mays Day by Simon Dumenco

Jefferson Mays couldn�t imagine a role more foreign to him than a 65-year-old East German transvestite�which is why he jumped at it.

Affectionately Yours by John Simon

Harold Prince brings directorial savvy, and loads of heart, to the coming-of-age comedy Hollywood Arms; Jackie Mason is back and in top, zinger-ready form.

Comedy of Errors by Jeremy Gerard

When it comes to the goofiness of baseball, Take Me Out swings (and scores) -- too bad it also takes sex, race, and sport so seriously; still going strong, Rent gets that Sync-ing feeling.

Theater Influences: Edward Albee by Boris Kachka

Eve Ensler Has Issues By Jeremy McCarter

The Treatment takes a firm stand against ... torture. But does that really make it a political play?

Broadway Timeline

From Hair to Hairspray, our tour of 35 years of high points on the Great White Way.

What a Farce By Jeremy McCarter

Timing, tone, Alec Baldwin: Everything's wrong with this Entertaining Mr. Sloane.

Singular Sensations

Photographs by Oliviero Toscani, Styled by John Vertin
Eighties exuberance returns, flaunted by Broadway's high-kicking hoofers.

High-Kicker: Chita Rivera By Boris Kachka

The Influentials: Theater

People whose ideas, power, and sheer will are changing New York.

Monster in a Box By Peter G. Davis

Grendel's visual pleasures can't overcome a blah score that's all pastiche.

Taking a Chance on Amour by Joanne Kaufman

Director James Lapine is more at home with Sondheimian ambivalence than with pop trifles like Windmills of Your Mind. So why did French songsmith Michel Legrand pick him to stage a romantic cream puff about a man who walks through walls to get the girl?
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King Mike and The Quest for the Broadway Grail By Bill Zehme

In �Spamalot,� Mike Nichols and Eric Idle bring Monty Python to the stage. How do you set decapitated knights and flying cows to music?

What's So Hard About Being Ralph Fiennes? By Boris Kachka

A tabloid-besieged star returns to Broadway.

Agent Provocateur By Boris Kachka

Julie White's bitter comic genius has carried The Little Dog Laughed to Broadway.

Songs to Make Your Blood Curdle: A History of the Vampire Musical By Boris Kachka