"Throughout my years in Alaska, I dreamed of a new music drawn from the light, the air, the landscapes, and the weather of the North. Now as I've begun to learn the landforms, the light, the…
"Being smart meant you knew about things that you didn't experience. If you were a student of history, it meant that you understood the expanse of history. Anyone can know what's going on ri…
Another excerpt from the Dan Kois-Isaac Butler oral history The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of 'Angels in America': here, "actors, administrators, and journalists tell the story of …
Slate's Aisha Harris: "Last summer, I made my way from Yankee territory and into the land of cotton to review Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. ... a kitschy dinner theate…
"Across America, on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, the races were kept separate at the theater. Black people sat apart in the upper galleries or were excluded entirely, by custom and, i…
The dissembling liar at the center of Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen. The hit Broadway musical is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to obscure moral concerns.
David Levesley follows the development of Paul Lucas's play "Trans Scripts" on its journey from workshop to Edinburgh Fringe to American Repertory Theater. Special focus on the importance o…
How Tony Kushner's play became the defining work of American art of the past 25 years.
If, like me, you work in theater and spend a lot of time procrastinating on social media, you've probably seen many of your friends ranting about small minded academic quislings fact-checkin…
"It's still white history. And no amount of casting people of color disguises the fact that they're erasing people of color from the actual narrative."
Earlier this week, the cast of Hamilton gave a student workshop and a performance at the White House, and Barack and Michelle Obama gave the musical's creator and star, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a…
In my mind (if you're reading, Mr. Miranda), the silver screen Hamilton adaptation plants the soul of the show into the body of Paul Schrader's florid and flowing Mishima: A Life in Four Cha…
#Ham4Ham, the joyous, free sidewalk performances outside Hamilton that are stoking the passions of a new generation of theater lovers.
The glorious, entertaining, phony, doomed reign of Broadway reporter Michael Riedel.
The long, fruitful, and tortured relationships Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and MGM.
Bernie Telsey has been casting hit musicals, films, and TV shows for more than 20 years. In this week's episode of Working, Telsey talks about what he's looking for in an audition, how diver…
The iconic pop star reflects on life as a teenage sensation and the years she's spent since getting to know herself.
At 39, Jordan Roth is one of the most powerful men in the New York theater world. As president and majority shareholder in Jujamcyn Theaters, he controls five Broadway houses, making him the…
Reportedly a fine stage actor, Butler is a less-than-agreeable vocalist. During his high notes, I covered my ears and then checked my hands for blood.
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In praise of Denis O'Hare.
Al Pacino makes it safe to hate Shylock again.
The fine art of the musical episode.