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Broadway's biggest winners—and their famous friends—celebrated long after the final bow.
Friends, colleagues and fans share their memories of Rex Reed—the reviews that changed their lives, the letters he sent back, and the man who made a generation of young gay men feel seen. …
"I joked for years that I was going to write a book that I was saved by lemon meringue pie," Rex Reed told me in 2022, recounting the night he skipped dinner at Sharon Tate's house. "I'm tel…
The legendary film critic who mentored writers, championed outsiders and never wavered in his advice: "Tell the truth, and your work will find an audience."
Where to book the tickets, land the table and enjoy it all, all within a few blocks of London’s busiest stages.
Connections forged over five decades gave him insider access to everyone from Jessica Chastain and Harvey Fierstein to the late Broadway publicist Susan Schulman and the legendary Lynne Mead…
In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and emotional experiences.
Performance art has a distinct urgency in Los Angeles, a city that in a perpetual state of rehearsal.
What a misguided affair from such an accomplished team.
This production leans heavily on Williams to humanize a century-old script whose language can feel insistently blunt.
The piece's enculturation rests on a certainty in its own semiotics"a stalwart belief that no matter the audience, grieving should be collective, not singular.
As humans are periodically replaced by eager and curious Primes, the audience tumbles headlong into the uncanny valley.
"We love reactions from children. I mean, children just say things. In the times when you can actually hear a pin drop, some kid will scream out, 'No, don't do it!' It's the greatest thing i…
Heather A. Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, examines why the recurring narrative that "the Broadway musical is in trouble" misses the larger transformation underway.…
Marvel stars as a lawyer navigating a justice system stripped of mercy, nuance and human judgment.
The experiment works best when we hear the titular character not foregrounded but embedded in the specificities of his place and time.
Diane Paulus is an old pro at taking theatrical IP and infusing wild, contemporary life into it. If only she'd done so here.
Fans of Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure registered delight throughout the Hudson Theatre. Bogus? Not a jot.
The musical's social commentary lands with renewed force amid contemporary headlines.
Yasmina Reza's 1998 comedy abounds in witty chuckles and elegant structure, but it remains a slight boulevard comedy: three self-obsessed Frenchmen bickering over a pricey painting.
Right off, Tarell Alvin McCraney draws the ancient distinction between the vita activa and the vita contemplativa: the active versus contemplative life.
We're not just short-listing major Broadway shows, daring plays and musicals Off but also work by women artists we're excited to see.Â
The actor's career has been shaped as much by chance encounters with icons as by his roles on stage.
There's not a dud in the ensemble, from Sandra Oh's flushed and impulsive Olivia to a scene-stealing turn by initialized performer "b" as Antonio, the sailor who rescues Sebastian from drown…
Twenty-four years later, this show still has the emotional depth of a sugared-up fourteen-year-old.
