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Thursday, January 23, 2025

How the Academy Awards Have Adapted to Catastrophe by Michael Schulman

The L.A. wildfires have resurfaced an old question: Are times too dark for a glitzy awards ceremony?

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Sunday, January 12, 2025

The Liberated Life of Colman Domingo by Michael Schulman

The actor discusses the West Philly musicians that inspired his style; the rejection that nearly made him quit show business; and the experience of making “Sing Sing” with former members…

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Monday, October 14, 2024

A Tattoo Homage to Norma Desmond by Michael Schulman

Jamie Lloyd, the very inked director of the new Broadway revival of “Sunset Boulevard,” gets a new tattoo inspired by the show.

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Sunday, June 2, 2024

Jonathan Groff Rolls Merrily Back by Michael Schulman

The actor reflects on his journey in reverse: from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.

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Friday, March 15, 2024

Recalling Meryl Streep’s “Half-Assed Genuflection” by Michael Schulman

Sister Margaret McEntee inspired the play “Doubt,” by her former pupil John Patrick Shanley. Her fellow Sisters of Charity went to see the Broadway revival.

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Monday, January 8, 2024

Broadway vs. the Pedicabs by Michael Schulman

Essentially boom boxes on three wheels, the bicycle-drawn carriages are prompting theatre owners to push back.

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Monday, July 24, 2023

An Oedipal Fish Story on Broadway by Michael Schulman

The actor Robert Shaw used to bring his son Ian to the “Jaws” set. Now Ian’s playing his dad in “The Shark Is Broken,” his play about the mechanical predator.

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Monday, June 12, 2023

Recap: The Unscripted 2023 Tony Awards by Michael Schulman

It was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.

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Friday, March 3, 2023

Spring Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Adrienne Warren stars in “Room,” Rachel Chavkin directs the satire “The Thanksgiving Play,” accident-prone Brits put on “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” and more.

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Friday, November 4, 2022

Winter Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in “Sweeney Todd,” Aaron Sorkin’s revised “Camelot,” Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat together onstage, and more.

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Friday, August 5, 2022

Fall Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

The Broadway transfer of “KPOP,” “1776” with a twist, Tom Stoppard’s personal new play, “Leopoldstadt,” and more.

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Monday, July 25, 2022

An Iranian Actor’s Journey to Broadway by Michael Schulman

Houshang Touzie parked cars and got punched by Mr. T on “The A-Team” before being cast in the theatrical version of Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.”

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Monday, June 13, 2022

The 2022 Tony Awards: How Broadway Got Its Groove Back by Michael Schulman

Ariana DeBose shined as the host, Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” was deservedly awarded, and the night was high-spirited fun.

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Summer Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Danai Gurira plays Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park, “The Kite Runner” opens on Broadway, Elevator Repair Service adapts Chekhov for “Seagull,” and more.

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Neverland Comes to Broadway by Michael Schulman

Meet the parents who thought it was a good idea to have their kids audition to play young Michael Jackson.

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Friday, March 4, 2022

Spring Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Michael R. Jackson’s salty musical “A Strange Loop,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in “Macbeth,” and more.

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Saturday, November 27, 2021

Stephen Sondheim Taught Me How to Be a Person by Michael Schulman

I borrowed his cast albums from my school library so many times that the librarians finally let me keep them.

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Sunday, November 14, 2021

Lin-Manuel Miranda Goes in Search of Lost Time by Michael Schulman

The “Hamilton” creator’s directorial début, “Tick, Tick . . . Boom!,” channels the bohemian life and spirit of the theatre composer Jonathan Larson.

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Friday, November 5, 2021

Winter Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in “The Music Man,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Lynn Nottage’s “MJ,” and more.

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Monday, October 18, 2021

Bringing Barbershop Talk to the Stage by Michael Schulman

To plug Keenan Scott II’s new play, “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” the producers sent a mobile barbershop around the city, in an attempt to diversify a Broadway audience that, Scott says…

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Monday, September 27, 2021

The Tony Awards Are Telling You Broadway’s Not Going by Michael Schulman

The awards ceremony was a pep rally and a processing of trauma, but it also raised questions about inclusivity.

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Friday, August 6, 2021

Fall Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Last spring’s doomed Broadway season is revived, along with plays by Lynn Nottage, Alice Childress, Lucas Hnath, Annie Baker, and more.

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Friday, June 18, 2021

Rita Moreno Has Time Only for the Truth by Michael Schulman

The actress, now eighty-nine, spent decades being typecast and belittled. In a new documentary, she tries to recover her story.

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Friday, May 7, 2021

Summer Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Shakespeare in the Park returns with “Merry Wives,” Aleshea Harris’s “What to Send Up When It Goes Down” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and more.

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Monday, May 3, 2021

Ethan Hawke Waits for Godot, or for the Zoom Screen to Unfreeze by Michael Schulman

After a rehearsal for a virtual production of the play, Hawke and his co-star John Leguizamo ponder how all dialogue now sounds like Beckett.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The 2019 Tony Awards: “Hadestown” Triumphs, Elaine May Sparkles, and Billy Porter Wins the Red Carpet by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman reviews the telecast of the Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden, in which Rachel Chavkin, Elaine May, and others gave winning speeches.

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Thursday, April 25, 2019

The Broadway Life of Hillary Clinton by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman reviews Joe Mantello’s Broadway production of Lucas Hnath’s play “Hillary and Clinton,” about the life of the former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the 2…

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Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman writes on “Oklahoma!” and “What the Constitution Means to Me,” two current theatre productions that have unsettling stories to tell about statehood.

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Monday, April 1, 2019

A Nerd Learns to “Be More Chill” by Michael Schulman

Shoved into a locker as a teen, the actor Will Roland vowed to transform himself—and made it to the nerd-heaven of Broadway, Michael Schulman writes. 

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Friday, March 1, 2019

Spring Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Revivals offer enticing actor pairings, including Adam Driver and Keri Russell, in “Burn This,” and Annette Bening and Tracy Letts, in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”

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Monday, February 25, 2019

An Oscars-Night Diary by Michael Schulman

Michael Schulman recaps his night at the 2019 Oscars ceremony, and at the Vanity Fair after-party.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Nov 17, 2024: Elf - Marquis Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre