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1,908 stories from The New Yorker

Who's Afraid of Going to the Theatre? by Jesse Eisenberg

Shouts & Murmurs by Jesse Eisenberg: This production contains strobe lights, nude people whom you don't want to see nude, and a didactic speech about Lenin.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on November 7, 2022

Winter Dance Preview by Marina Harss

The return of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the tap wiz Michelle Dorrance, an unusual ballet by Alexei Ratmansky, and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on November 4, 2022

Winter Theatre Preview by Michael Schulman

Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in "Sweeney Todd," Aaron Sorkin's revised "Camelot," Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat together onstage, and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on November 4, 2022

A "Hamlet" That Isn't a Bummer by Helen Shaw

In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 1:09pm on October 31, 2022

Two Views of New York, from Edward Hopper and a Historic Black Gallery by Hilton Als

Museum shows capture the great realist painter's vision of the city and, at Just Above Midtown, the work of artists of color from the seventies and eighties.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 24, 2022

Curtain Call, with Zamboni by Zach Helfand

Victoria Clark and the cast of "Kimberly Akimbo" turned into rink rats to prepare for their Broadway opening.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 24, 2022

How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution by Adam Gopnik

A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 24, 2022

"A Little Life" Is a Little Much by Helen Shaw

A stage adaptation, at BAM, crams Hanya Yanagihara's sprawling novel into a single evening"not without some violence.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 7:01pm on October 22, 2022

"Topdog/Underdog," Back on Broadway, Still Has Its Eye on the American Long Con by Helen Shaw

The director Kenny Leon puts a realistic spin on Suzan-Lori Parks's allegorical tour de force.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 21, 2022

A "Piano Lesson" with No False Notes by Helen Shaw

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs a stunning encore of August Wilson's most enigmatic work.

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

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

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 7:19pm on August 24, 2022

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
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