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75 stories by "Sopan Deb"

Outside Kennedy Center, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez Raise Voices in Protest by Sopan Deb

The pair joined in a gathering of artists and others who denounced censorship and faulted President Trump's growing influence over the nation's cultural life.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 4:58pm on March 27, 2026

'Things Have Not Changed': What 'Heated Rivalry' Gets Right About Men's Sports by Sopan Deb

The show, about a romance between two closeted pro hockey players, is a surprise hit. But its popularity underscores how little has changed in the hypermasculine world of men's professional …

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:02am on February 4, 2026

Move Aside, Snowflake: 'Theater Kid' Is the New Go-To Political Insult by Sopan Deb

Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:18am on December 21, 2025

'Mexodus' Tells an Underground Railroad Story You've Probably Never Heard by Sopan Deb

In this new hip-hop musical from Nygel D. Robinson and Brian Quijada, audiences hear a tale of reverse migration: Slaves leaving the United States for Mexico.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24pm on September 22, 2025

A Retelling of the Mahabharata, Set to Modern-Day Struggles by Sopan Deb

At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:12am on June 21, 2025

It Is Not Dead Yet! 'Spamalot' Returns to Broadway. (Cue the Coconuts.) by Sopan Deb

The Monty Python-inspired show wants to give audiences a reason "to laugh and enjoy and be taken away by this lunacy, in the best way possible."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:32am on November 6, 2023

Why Basketball Is So Popular Off Broadway by Sopan Deb

Basketball is central to the plot in new shows, including "Flex" and "The Half-God of Rainfall."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49am on July 17, 2023

For the 'Soldier's Play' Star Blair Underwood, the Uniform Fits by Sopan Deb

His father served for three decades but had never seen the military drama. So they had a lot to talk about after its opening night on Broadway.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:36am on January 28, 2020

Gary Busey Is Playing God. Seriously. by Sopan Deb

At 75, the actor is trying his hand at musical theater in an Off Broadway show called "Only Human." It kind of makes sense.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:42pm on October 7, 2019

How Can 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' Upstage the Movie? With 70 Songs by Sopan Deb

Finding spots for the pop songs, credited to 161 writers, and getting the rights, was no cancan.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 8:06am on July 17, 2019

Big-League Baseball's First Woman, on a Stage of Her Own by Sopan Deb

A new Off Broadway play aims to make sure Toni Stone, who played for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953, is no longer a footnote to history.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 1:03pm on June 11, 2019

Making a Haunted Home for 'Beetlejuice' by Sopan Deb

Two families, one house, plus demons: The complicated set of the new Broadway musical is a shape-shifter all its own.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00am on April 11, 2019

Tickling Worms in the Lab, Tickling Funny Bones Onstage by Sopan Deb

Matt Walker just got his big acting break in the farce "The Play That Goes Wrong." But he's not giving up his day job in a Nobel winner's biology lab.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00am on March 21, 2019

Morrissey to Stage Seven-Night Broadway Residency in May by Sopan Deb

The former frontman of the Smiths, Morrissey will become the latest high-profile musician to take to a Broadway stage when he performs a career retrospective.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:39am on March 4, 2019

'S.N.L.' Brings Back Ben Stiller and Bill Hader to Skewer Michael Cohen Congressional Hearings by Sopan Deb

Some old friends showed up at "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, including the host John Mulaney, who turned in another strong performance as host.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:37am on March 3, 2019

Play About LeBron James to Highlight New Steppenwolf Season by Sopan Deb

Sure, LeBron is doing another "Space Jam" movie. But a play about LeBron is also heading to Chicago.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:35pm on February 28, 2019

'Stomp' Turns 25. Here Are 10 Things You Didn't Know About It. by Sopan Deb

There's more to the show than banging on a can. Ask George Lucas, Hillary Clinton " and the performer who's been doing it for 20 years.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 3:18pm on February 14, 2019

Glenn Close Upsets Lady Gaga, Takes Best Actress at the Golden Globes by Sopan Deb

Even the winner seemed to be caught off guard when she, and not Lady Gaga, won for a movie drama, "The Wife."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05am on January 7, 2019

A Play Challenging 'Hamilton' to Have a Reading by Sopan Deb

The play, "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," will be read this weekend at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:48pm on January 4, 2019

In 'Network,' a Stage Manager Comes Out of the Shadows by Sopan Deb

For the Broadway adaptation of the blistering satire of business, Timothy Semon calls sound and lighting cues while onstage.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:54pm on December 24, 2018

'The Play That Goes Wrong' to Move Off Broadway to New World Stages by Sopan Deb

The Monty Python-esque murder mystery farce, which was a hit on Broadway, will close in January. But the show will go on.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48pm on December 20, 2018

Everything in Life Is Only for Now: 'Avenue Q' to Close in April by Sopan Deb

The puppet-filled musical that became an unexpected hit on Broadway in 2003 will be ending its Off Broadway run on April 28.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18pm on December 10, 2018

Apollo Theater to Build New Performance Spaces by Sopan Deb

The storied Harlem institution will create spaces intended to incubate works by up-and-coming artists.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 2:48pm on December 4, 2018

A Neighbor's Shh! Could Silence a Village Theater for Good by Sopan Deb

Quad Cinema is going to court to fend off eviction proceedings after an upstairs tenant complained that noise from its screens keeps seeping into his home.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 9:37am on November 21, 2018

Baltimore 'Fiddler' Disrupted by 'Heil Hitler, Heil Trump' by Sopan Deb

A man was removed from the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore after he loudly yelled pro-Hitler slogans during intermission.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:42pm on November 15, 2018
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