As portrayed in shows like "Smash," "Slings & Arrows" and "American Classic," life onstage is a grab-bag of archetypes both hilariously wrong and a little bit right.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM[SHARE]The taboo-busting, gasp-inducing Broadway musical comedy has been a hit with audiences and critics. But could it be produced today?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]Is there anyone John Lithgow can't " or won't " play?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]TikTok is the new home for musical theater fans who want to put themselves in the action. Viral re-enactments of four big numbers show why.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42AM[SHARE]Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there's a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is "Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06AM[SHARE]A Black Hedda Gabler on film and a white Korean robot onstage are sending mixed signals about the status of cultural diversity and representation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]The new Lorenz Hart biopic "Blue Moon" gets a lot right about the creation of musicals that a spate of 1940s films got wildly wrong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]At this year's Stratford Festival, kings, orphans and even a coffee shop have a message for their neighbors to the south.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AM[SHARE]Pamela Anderson, Amber Heard and Tennessee Williams on ice are part of Jeremy O. Harris's big tent at the famous summer festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]The slinky jailbirds and Broadway hopefuls in these two classic shows have been fighting it out since 1975.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thornton Wilder's play became a blockbuster musical, but a production under an upstate tent makes the case for its stand-alone virtues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]Our critic picked 10 moments that tapped into a range of emotions, often all at once.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]Despite a gorgeous score and some fine performances, the musical adaptation of the Madeleine L'Engle classic gets trapped in a time loop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]In an Off Broadway play, young men on a high school debate team prepare to argue an uncomfortable case.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]The Off Broadway play "Prince Faggot" aims to shock. But the real surprise is how good it is anyway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PM[SHARE]The "Hacks" star returns to Broadway after 25 years in a triumph for her, if not for the old-fashioned, flowery play about spouse abuse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02PM[SHARE]In an Off Broadway play, the former Jim Halpert of Dunder Mifflin dives into a darker world of male grievance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42AM[SHARE]Our critic listened to the cast recordings of all the nominated musicals and picked one of his favorite tracks from each.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PM[SHARE]Liev Schreiber stars in an update of the bleak Strindberg classic about a husband and wife and the man who seeks to destroy them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PM[SHARE]Our chief theater critic looks at this year's nominees and weighs in on the plays, musicals and artists he thinks will " and should " take home trophies on June 8.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM[SHARE]A new play about a middle-age professor and his teenage student forces you to ask: Who's grooming whom?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PM[SHARE]When James Joyce's masterpiece faced banning, the American justice system came to the rescue. A new play wonders if it would today.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]A truly twisted yarn about a long-lived corpse makes a surprisingly feel-good Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PM[SHARE]Groff is sensational as the '60s "nightclub animal" in a Broadway bio-musical jukebox that doesn't live up to its star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don't quite land.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PM[SHARE]"Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp," a new collection of one-acts by the great British playwright, is a cause for celebration, wonderment and grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PM[SHARE]Kimberly Belflower's play, on Broadway starring Sadie Sink, gives high school students a chance to prosecute a #MeToo case against "The Crucible."
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