Theater about current events — both literally and abstractly — is changing the conversation between playwrights, directors and their audiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMThese performers are creating a new template for the artist-as-activist, challenging their industry — and their audiences — to reconsider what inclusion really means.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PMIn 1991, on his tenth try, and after a theater career that had spanned thirty years and almost as many Broadway productions, Neil Simon finally won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was rewar…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:06PMYou have to give Edward Albee credit: Fifty-five years after its Broadway debut, and less than a year after its author’s death, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has once again become the …
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AMOf course the home of Hamilton would turn out to be the room where it happened. The reignition of the culture wars, with the arts as the battlefield — a form of jousting so antiq…
SOURCE: Vulture at 06:52PMLast week, when Warner Brothers green-lit a new version of the movie A Star Is Born that will pair Bradley Cooper with Lady Gaga, it was as if a roulette wheel that had been spinni…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:33AMOn Sunday night’s Tony Awards, history was made. Unfortunately, it was made during the commercial breaks. Early in the three-hour show, while viewers at home watched commercials for the wi…
SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 07:33PMGlen Berger’s new book looks at the making of the Spider-Man musical that seemed to be doomed on several fronts.
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