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Monday, March 5, 2018

Did Andrew Lloyd Webber Ruin the Musical or Rescue It? by Adam Gopnik

Adam Gopnik on a new memoir that shows how the composer brought back the masses by returning the musical to an earlier form.  

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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

The Meanings of Ivanka and Justin Side by Side on Broadway by Adam Gopnik

There was much talk recently about the evening that Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump spent side by side, sitting together at the Schoenfeld Theatre to watch the Canadian musical “Come from …

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Friday, June 10, 2016

“Hamilton” and the Books That Hamilton Held by Adam Gopnik

With the confrontation between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton working its way toward its latest incarnation, what with Lin-Manuel Miranda (as Hamilton) and Leslie Odom, Jr. (as Burr), fac…

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

How a Lost Marx Brothers Musical Found Its Way Back Onstage by Adam Gopnik

On a recent Saturday morning at the Pearl Studios, on Eighth Avenue, the most labyrinthine of all Broadway rehearsal halls, one of the most beautiful and endangered of all New York sounds su…

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Friday, February 5, 2016

“Hamilton” and the Hip-Hop Case for Progressive Heroism by Adam Gopnik

The Broadway musical, to the distress of those of us who think of it as America’s own fine form, the thing we made first and still, Andrew Lloyd Webber be damned, make best, isn’t really…

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

What Shakespeare Knew About Robert Durst by Adam Gopnik

One of the strangest things to observe in recent weeks has been the hold on what used to be called the popular imagination of Robert Durst’s final monologue in Andrew Jarecki’s documenta…

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