How Lin-Manuel Miranda Weathered the Storm
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over "Hamilton" and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over "Hamilton" and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
Rauch has been called the "nicest man in show business." Now he's trying to bring the spirit of community theatre to a building that cost half a billion dollars.
A play based on Charles W. Chesnutt's "Marrow of Tradition" shows the writer of "A Raisin in the Sun" attuned to the history of white violence.
Luis Alfaro, whose latest play is an adaptation of "Medea," appreciates such "primal" points of origin: "They get to the essence: why we hurt each other, this inability to forgive."
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner writes about the opening of the musical "Hamilton" in London in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump.
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner writes about how Lin-Manuel Miranda's American Revolution musical "Hamilton" will be received in London for its West End début.
When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play "God of Vengeance" at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. L. Peretz, told him to burn it. It's a shtetl tragedy: a Jewish brothel ow…
A rap musical based on Shakespeare provides an unexpected look into the ideals of Donald Trump's chief strategist.
In October, the publisher Hogarth rolled out the first in its ambitious new line of Shakespeare plays retold by contemporary novelists. The pairings are promising: Margaret Atwood, a master …