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Monday, November 11, 2019

David Byrne and David Binder on Breaking Through to the Mainstream by Boris Kachka

Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the producer and the musician.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AM
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Admiration Society: Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove Talk Politics, Coming Out and Boarding School by Boris Kachka

Two creative people in two different fields in one wide-ranging conversation. This time: the singer and the director.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Theater Review: Listening to Children of a Lesser God, 30 Years Later by Boris Kachka

There are two intense scenes in Children of a Lesser God’s first Broadway revival, opening tonight at Studio 54 almost 30 years after its Tony-sweeping debut, that are already reason enoug…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM
Monday, March 26, 2018

Theater Review: Lobby Hero Comes Knocking Again by Boris Kachka

Is there anything more timeless than the lobby of an average doorman building? It’s a scuffed, eclectic oasis of permanence in a city that never sleeps—though its doormen sometimes do, d…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PM
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Why Was Times Theater Critic Charles Isherwood Fired? by Boris Kachka

Charles Isherwood woke up on the morning of February 3 with one of the best jobs in the country: second-string theater critic for the New York Times. Around noon that day, he was summoned to…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:37AM
Monday, January 18, 2016

Spending a Final Friday Night With David Bowie’s Fans at Lazarus by Boris Kachka

The play wasn’t starting for another half-hour, and already someone was crying. The New York Theatre Workshop’s downtown audience isn’t prone to exuberant emotional displays — leave …

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:59PM
Saturday, December 19, 2015

Playwright Annie Baker on the Limits of Dramatic Memoir, Her Odd Jobs in Reality TV, and Why She Finds Hollywood More Appealing Than Broadway by Boris Kachka

You couldn’t write an argument for optimism about New York theater without invoking Annie Baker, who, at 34, is practically a metonym for the best of her Off Broadway generation: creators …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:21PM
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

William Goldman Brings the Pain to the Stage With a Broadway Adaptation of Misery by Boris Kachka

“Screenwriting is shitwork,” William Goldman wrote in his 1983 industry bible Adventures in the Screen Trade, source of both the famous dictum “Nobody knows anything” and the popular…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:08AM
Monday, May 25, 2015

A Drama Queen and Her Princess by Boris Kachka

Marian Seldes meets Lily Rabe.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Touchdown in Times Square by Boris Kachka

Vince Lombardi’s 40-year broken-field run, from Green Bay to Broadway.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

The Accidental Actress by Boris Kachka

Grace Gummer joins the family business, after a few detours.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM
Sunday, March 22, 2015

Dining With Bill Nighy, Broadway’s Newest Chef by Boris Kachka

On a slow Thursday night at Picholine, the Upper West Side’s Michelin-starred gem of foam and fromage, Bill Nighy ambles into the kitchen. “Completely sensational,” he tells Terrance B…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Alice Lee Kept a Line Open From Her Sister, To Kill a Mockingbird’s Harper Lee, to the Public by Boris Kachka

If Alice F. Lee didn’t happen to be Nelle Harper Lee’s sister, lawyer, and roommate, the AP might not have run an obituary on the occasion of her death on Monday at the age of 103. But o…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AM
Sunday, August 19, 2012

You’re Never Fully Dressed Without Some Bile by Boris Kachka

The sunny Katie Finneran finds her inner Harridan for Annie.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 08:38PM
Sunday, April 10, 2011

I'm On @#$% Broadway by Boris Kachka

Three playwrights discuss their profanity-filled debuts.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:59PM
Sunday, February 13, 2011

The Accidental Actress by Boris Kachka

Grace Gummer joins the family business, after a few detours.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 09:04PM
Friday, January 7, 2011

Minstrels, With Irony by Boris Kachka

Two high-steppin' reasons to see The Scottsboro Boys.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 10:57PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards