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Monday, March 30, 2026

'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway Has Help From Something Old by Joshua Barone and Lila Barth

Joe Mantello's Broadway revival, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, was inspired by a draft with notes by Arthur Miller. Here are some of them.

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Glenn Close on 'Sunset Boulevard,' 'Fatal Attraction' and Her Storied Career by Nick Haramis, Joshua Woods and Delphine Danhier

For half a century, she's brought her singular talents to the stage and screen. Now, the actress wants one more shot at the role that helped make her a star.

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Thursday, September 25, 2025

Beetlejuice Musical Confirmed for London in 2026 by Josh

IT'S SHOWTIME! Beetlejuice The Musical is officially coming to the West End. The Broadway smash-hit, based on Tim Burton's beloved 1988 cult film, will make its London debut at the Prince Ed…

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Friday, September 5, 2025

Anthony Roth Costanzo Wears Maria Callas's Heels in 'Galas' by Joshua Barone and Landon Nordeman

At Little Island, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is starring, and singing, in Charles Ludlam's "Galas," a love letter to Callas.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The Best Classical Music Performances of March 2025 by Joshua Barone, Seth Colter Walls, Zachary Woolfe and Oussama Zahr

Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Broadway Revival of Chess in the Works by Josh

Plans for a Broadway revival of Chess are in the works. Tim Rice, who wrote the musical with ABBA's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, has revealed that the show is set to return to Broadway…

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Best Classical Music Performances of 2023 by Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone

Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures.

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Friday, April 14, 2023

'The Phantom of the Opera': Thinking of a Spectacle Fondly by Joshua Barone, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The reverend and rabbi who consulted on Broadway's 'Parade' reflect on their experience this season by The Rev. Dr. jacqui Lewis and Rabbi Joshua Stanton

A reverend and a rabbi walk into a Broadway show. The cast and crew are offstage, grappling beautifully with questions of identity, exclusion and the ongoing struggle against white supremacy…

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

What to See This Spring in NYC: Broadway Shows, Concerts and More by Steven McElroy, Joshua Barone, Siobhan Burke, Jon Pareles, Brian Seibert, Lindsay Zoladz and Roslyn Sulcas

"Life of Pi" and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here's what we're looking forward to this season.

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Justin Peck's New Americana, 'Copland Dance Episodes' by Joshua Barone and Mark Sommerfeld

At New York City Ballet, Peck's "Copland Dance Episodes" brings the composer's three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.

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Friday, November 25, 2022

Technology in S.F.'s 'Frozen' reduces musicians in live performances, but at what cost to audiences? by Lily Janiak and Joshua Kosman

KeyComp could make it possible for a single synthesizer player to replicate the sound of a large orchestra with unprecedented flexibility.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022

Why comedian Grace Campbell refuses to be silenced about sex " podcast by Presented By Nosheen Iqbal With Grace Campbell; Produced By Natalie Ktena and Rudi Zygadlo; Executive Producers Nicole Jackson, Elizabeth Cassin and Joshua Kelly

Comedian Grace Campbell on why after being raped last year, she worried that her openness about her sex life would be used against her Grace Campbell, comedian and author of Amazing Disgrace…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33PM[SHARE]
Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Fall of Autumn: Live Performance Producers Are Giving Up on 2020 by Michael Paulson, Joshua Barone, Ben Sisario and Zachary Woolfe

Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year.

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Friday, April 17, 2020

Track-by-Track Breakdown: How Do You Make Sondheim Sound Disco for Losing My Mind? by Joshua Hinck and Scott Wasserman

Joshua Hinck and Scott Wasserman reveal the fusion of two seemingly opposite musical languages in their "Sondheim Disco Fever Dream" from Broadway Records.

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Broadway Stars React to Their Tony Nominations by Joshua Barone and Elizabeth A. Harris

We spoke with five actors to see how they were feeling after hearing about their Tony Award nods.

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Monday, June 11, 2018

The Best and Worst of the Tony Awards 2018 by Ben Brantley, Jesse Green, Scott Heller and Joshua Barone

A look at the most memorable moments from this year's ceremony celebrating Broadway.

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Thursday, May 10, 2018

23 Dazzling Portraits of Tony Nominees by Jesse Dittmar, Michael Paulson, Jolie Ruben and Joshua Barone

We invited Broadway's best to pose for us just 24 hours after they were nominated for theater's most prestigious award. Needless to say, they were a happy bunch.

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Friday, July 28, 2017

What's the longest line in Pittsburgh? And what's worth waiting for? by Catherine Cray and Joshua Axelrod / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

We can all agree that the "Gilmore Girls" revival was terrible. But, amid the mess of Rory realizing that maybe she isn't a particularly talented journalist, she is assigned a really interes…

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Thursday, December 22, 2016
Sunday, October 23, 2016

Lawsuit Filed Over 'Golden Girls' Puppet Parody by Joshua Barone and Andrew R. Chow

A playwright claims that the current Off Broadway show was stolen when a creative partnership turned sour.

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Monday, July 13, 2015

The Art of the Steal: director Ivo van Hove's methods to create plays out of film scripts by Josh

"In film," pronounced Ivo van Hove, director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the largest, and most culturally influential, theater in the Netherlands, "the director is the god of his creation." On…

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Monday, May 25, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

How to Live Faster: Interview with Dito van Reigersberg of Pig Iron by Josh

Pig Iron Theatre Company's latest wild theatrical creation opens this week at FringeArts. I Promised Myself to Live Faster is an absurdist sci-fi epic and wild allegory about gayness in 2015…

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Sebastian has a new show by Josh

Sebastian (aka Sebastian Cummings aka Sean Cummings) is debuting his new show Showbiz, May 21"23 at the Adobe Cafe (1919 East Passyunk Avenue), which he describes as "part theater, part conc…

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Thaddeus Phillips Brings the Drug Trade to FringeArts by Josh

"I was fascinated by the way TV is made: the way you shoot out of sequence and how it actually feels more fake, even with real planes, for example, than being on a theater set." The Incredib…

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Olive Prince Dance shows new work this weekend by Josh

Olive Prince, leader of Olive Prince Dance, is showing an in-progess version of her new full length dance, Of our remnants, Thursday April 30"Saturday May 2 this weekend at the Iron Factory …

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Call for Artists! 2015 Fringe Festival by Josh

2015 Neighborhood Fringe Registration begins has begun at myphillyfringe.com! Yes, my friends, it is that time of year again, that time of year to starting gearing up to the 2015 Fringe F…

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

WetLand crosses the Delaware by Josh

July 22, 2014, in the morning: The main structural component of WetLand by Mary Mattingly, a houseboat, turns towards its destination–the dock at the Independence Seaport Muse…

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2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off