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1,898 stories from The New Yorker

Willy Loman's Blues Get a Jazz Tuning by Vinson Cunningham

In a new Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," the actor Wendell Pierce makes the melody of a sentence carry meaning beyond its words.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 14, 2022

America: Pro or Con? by Helen Shaw

Debate and democracy in "1776" and "Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 7:40pm on October 7, 2022

Tom Stoppard Resurrects the Past in "Leopoldstadt" by Helen Shaw

A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright's own ghosts.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 6, 2022

Tom Stoppard Faces His Family's Past by Andrew Dickson

A conversation with the playwright about the long journey to "Leopoldstadt," which has just come to Broadway.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 2, 2022

An Actor's One-Man Apotheosis by Helen Shaw

David Greenspan turns Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" into a solo tour de force.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on September 22, 2022

The (Dinner-Theatre) Knight's Tale by Neima Jahromi

At Medieval Times, workers did uprise: squires and queens voted to unionize. So to Jersey's castle a scribe made a traverse, to deliver the scoop in Chaucerian verse.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on September 19, 2022

Everything Avant-Garde Is Old Again by Helen Shaw

Mad kings and shadow puppets feature in the experimental-theatre pieces "My Onliness" and "This and That."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:27pm on September 14, 2022

A Portrait of David Bowie as an Alienated Artist by Hilton Als

The musician was a consummate showman, but "Moonage Daydream," a new documentary, rarely shows him at play.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on September 12, 2022

Folly in the Park by Helen Shaw

"As You Like It" brings music, high jinks, and community to Shakespeare's sometimes resistant comedy.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:00am on September 1, 2022

Chelsea Manning's Wicked Beats by Nathan Heller

The WikiLeaks source preps for her first public d.j. set in fifteen years, at a club in Brooklyn, where she chats about electronic dance music ("how I survived prison") and being more than j…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on August 29, 2022

How Sara Bareilles Evolved Beyond Being a Pop Star by D. T. Max

The singer turned actress turned musical-theatre virtuoso discusses her role as the Baker's Wife in the Sondheim musical "Into the Woods."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:49pm on August 25, 2022

The Theatre

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Fall Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

The Broadway transfer of "KPOP," "1776" with a twist, Tom Stoppard's personal new play, "Leopoldstadt," and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on August 5, 2022

Daniel Fish's Latest Experiment, "Most Happy in Concert" by Vinson Cunningham

At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the director, whose radically reimagined "Oklahoma!" was an emphatic Broadway hit, turns to Frank Loesser's 1956 musical.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on July 25, 2022

An Iranian Actor's Journey to Broadway by Michael Schulman

Houshang Touzie parked cars and got punched by Mr. T on "The A-Team" before being cast in the theatrical version of Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on July 25, 2022

Chains | The New Yorker by Ken Marks

This welcome Mint production, the first back in the company's Forty-second Street home in nearly two and a half years, is a refined affair, though there's no lack of desperation seething jus…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:50am on June 24, 2022

The 2022 Tony Awards: How Broadway Got Its Groove Back by Michael Schulman

Ariana DeBose shined as the host, Michael R. Jackson's "A Strange Loop" was deservedly awarded, and the night was high-spirited fun.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:39pm on June 13, 2022

The Revelations of Thom Gunn's Letters by Hilton Als

The late poet's letters are a primer not only on literature but on the man himself.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on May 30, 2022

Austin Pendleton Is Still on Broadway, Still a Babe Magnet by Henry Alford

The actor and director hangs at the lounge of Studio 54, where he is performing in "The Minutes," to discuss sixty years in the theatre, casting a young Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich, an…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on May 16, 2022

Summer Dance Preview by Marina Harss

New ballets at American Ballet Theatre, the return of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the tap artist Dormeshia, and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on May 6, 2022

Summer Contemporary-Music Preview by Sheldon Pearce

HAIM plays Madison Square Garden, J Balvin hits Barclays Center, Beach House heads to Kings Theatre, and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on May 6, 2022

Summer Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Danai Gurira plays Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park, "The Kite Runner" opens on Broadway, Elevator Repair Service adapts Chekhov for "Seagull," and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on May 6, 2022

Sondheim's Wise "Into the Woods"

Encores! stages the Stephen Sondheim"James Lapine musical from 1987, with an all-star cast that includes Ann Harada, Denée Benton, Sara Bareilles, and Neil Patrick Harris.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on April 29, 2022

A "Hamilton" for the Suffrage Movement by Alexandra Schwartz

Shaina Taub's new musical follows Alice Paul's tireless quest to win American women the vote.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on April 11, 2022

"The Skin of Our Teeth," Reinterpreted

In Lincoln Center Theatre's revival of Thornton Wilder's allegorical comedy, which tells the story of human history through the Antrobuses of New Jersey, the Everyman family embodies the Bla…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on April 8, 2022
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