66 stories by "Steven Zeitchik"
The effects of slashing arts funding would ripple far beyond grantees.
This Christmas, Hollywood's major film releases are competing for Americans' entertainment time with a slew of new shows on Netflix - and all those television series that slipped t…
The nearly 9 million people who tuned in to watch the Tony Awards last year saw the coronation of a pop-culture king: "Hamilton" won 11 prizes and creator Lin-Manuel Miranda gave an impassio…
In February, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul fell just short of Hollywood's highest honor when "La La Land," the Southland-set musical they penned the lyrics for, failed to win best picture at th…
The first post-"Hamilton" Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and the nominees in the marquee best musical category were "Come From Away," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Natasha, Pi…
A roundtable conversation with some of the creative minds behind "Bandstand," "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and other new musicals navigating the post-"Hamilton" Broadway landscape.
On Saturday night, just 48 hours before the splashy musical adaptation "Groundhog Day" was set to open on Broadway, composer Tim Minchin unexpectedly stepped onstage to address a preview-per…
Broadway last year yielded one show everyone talked about, "Hamilton," and a lot of other shows people saw when they were sold out of "Hamilton." This year has no Lin-Manuel Miranda musical …
Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" has made history in numerous ways, injecting energy into the musical, populating the stage with people of color and bringing young audiences to a middle-aged …
An air of both celebration and sobriety hung over the Tony Awards on Sunday, as one of the biggest hits in Broadway history was honored hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history…
During rehearsal sessions for the Tony Awards, theater seats are adorned with cardboard images of nominees' names and faces. Broadway's biggest night, Sunday at the Beacon Theatre, is an ela…
Shortly after the news broke that "Hamilton" had landed 16 Tony Award nominations, the musical's director, Thomas Kail, sent a text to choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler and others on the sho…
Springtime on Broadway is usually racked with strategy, stress and speculation. New shows vie for any possible edge to capture the Tony Awards' brass ring of best musical, on the (often corr…
"Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop musical about America's founding fathers wrote its own bit of Tony Award history Tuesday morning by picking up 16 nominations, breaking the record he…
Springtime on Broadway is usually racked with strategy, stress and speculation. New shows vie for any edge possible to capture the Tony Awards' brass ring of best musical, believing the awar…
If history is any indication, bringing a small, sweet movie from the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to Broadway is a pretty good idea.That was the path taken by John Carney's "Once," which, whe…
As Will Ferrell's longtime creative partner, Adam McKay has a history in screen comedy, with directing credits on movies such as "Anchorman" and "Talladega Nights" and a founding role in "Fu…
More than a few students over the years have wished they were listening to hip-hop instead of learning about American history.
The musical "Fun Home" follows the graphic novelist Alison Bechdel as she goes from an uncertain childhood in a small-town funeral home to a career as a highly successful lesbian author and …
When the Tony Awards presentation gets underway Sunday night from Radio City Music Hall, it'll feature a bevy of stars with deep ties to the theater (Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster, Judith…
For years, theater pundits have complained that Broadway and the Tony Awards have become staid and spineless, filled with unnecessary revivals and musicals adapted from old movies.
Sure, "An American in Paris" and "Wolf Hall Parts 1
The nominations for the 2015 Tony awards will be announced Tuesday morning in New York by Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis.
For the first hour of the Tudor stage epic "Wolf Hall," Anne Boleyn makes exactly one appearance. "Do you not know me?" she says, bitingly, to a key member of Henry VIII's court, then quickl…
A week from opening night, what might charitably be called a charge of creative tension ripples through a rehearsal for the new Broadway musical "Finding Neverland."
