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"Dear Evan Hansen" has changed now that it's on Broadway, in ways that make it an even more affecting musical. Ben Platt's performance, impressive from the get-go, is even better. But what's…
Four shows are opening on Broadway this month, three of them new musicals: “A Bronx Tale” marks the Broadway debut of Robert De Niro as a “co-director,” although Jerr…
Live from the Hamilton stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, some of the recording artists in the Hamilton Mixtape — songs directly from, or related to, the Hamilton m…
"Ride the Cyclone" begins with six teenagers from the high school choir of a small Canadian town dying on a roller coaster called the Cyclone. Then, one by one, we hear their stories " or, m…
Here is a 2 1/2 minute excerpt from tonight’s episode of the Comedy Central series, Drunk History, in which Lin-Manuel Miranda recounts Alexander Hamilton’s adulterous affair wit…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in November? Take this 13-question quiz and see.
Yes, they say interval what we say intermission, they call stalls what we call orchestra seats, they eat ice cream in the theater and we certainly do not. Â But audiences on Broadway and i…
It might seem as if the creative team behind "Homos, or Everyone in America," a fabulous and fragmented look at six years of a gay relationship, has put up barriers between the audience and …
Denzel Washington's movie adaptation of "Fences," August Wilson's 1987 play, will be in movie theaters nationwide on December 25, 2016. Below is a first movie trailer from Paramount Picures …
The cast of The Humans posed for this photograph, which pays homage to Norman Rockwell’s painting Freedom From Want: The Humans takes place on Thanksgiving. I don’t think it̵…
My fifth annual Broadway gift guide below includes info on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, play scripts, cast recordings and new and cherished books about the theater, a…
In Nicky Silver's new play at the Vineyard Theater, "This Day Forward," we're back again in Silverland — a gay man who has trouble with relationships must deal with his selfish, acerbi…
Leigh Silverman, director of the 50th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, recently spoke about art being "a tool for education, revolution, and resistan…
Leigh Silverman, the director of the 50th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, recently spoke about art being "a tool for education, and revolution, and …
When President-elect Donald Trump Tweeted this week "The Theater must always be a safe and special place," it was part of his eruption against the cast of Hamilton for directly addressing Vi…
Vice President-elect Mike Pence saw Hamilton tonight on Broadway, where he was both jeered and cheered by a disruptive audience at times. At the curtain call, Brandon V. Dixon, who plays Aar…
African American types and stereotypes crowd the stage in the striking revival of Suzan-Lori Parks surreal and cryptic 1990 play at the Signature " a man in sharecropper overalls holding a w…
The question hanging over Othello The Remix, 80 minutes of often entertaining and inventive raps written, composed, directed by and co-starring the Q Brothers, is how much it has to do with …
"Party People," a look at the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, is powerful and intelligent documentary theater — although the documentary theater part struggles for attention a…
The 90th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature (as it traditionally does) numbers from Broadway musicals — on CBS, The Color Purple, Â On Your Feet, and School of …
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton performs the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, who died at age 82 on the day before Election Day. The terribly apt lyrics include…
After seeing the current revival of "Falsettos," New York Times critic Charles Isherwood deemed it perfect, while the New Yorker's Hilton Als considered it perfectly awful. "There's hardly a…
On this Veteran’s Day, watch Adam Driver — Star Wars villain, Girls beefcake, Broadway veteran and military veteran — talk about his journey from Marine to actor. Dr…
