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The real-life spouses Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick play three different couples in a new Broadway production of Neil Simon's trio of one-act plays, from 1968, at the Hudson The…
Meet the parents who thought it was a good idea to have their kids audition to play young Michael Jackson.
From the magazine's archive: a selection of pieces about the theatrical experience.
Michael R. Jackson's salty musical "A Strange Loop," Beanie Feldstein in "Funny Girl," Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in "Macbeth," and more.
Blake Lively and Seth Meyers came out to salute the première of "The Music Man"; so did forty-five New York teen-agers armed with clarinets and sousaphones.
The playwright explores the myths of community, love, and violence.
As he worked on his final musical, the legendary composer discussed the ideas he'd abandoned, the minutiae of his technique, and the lesson that any artist must learn.
The legendary rapper of the Roots turns to musical theatre with "Black No More," which is based on a novel from the Harlem Renaissance.
The legendary rapper of the Roots turns to musical theatre with "Black No More," based on a novel from the Harlem Renaissance. Plus, Lee Child on Jack Reacher.
Bill Bradley, a staid member of the rarefied (the Rhodes Scholarship), the very rarefied (the U.S. Senate), and the super-rarefied (the Knicks' two championship teams), premières his …
The Thai director knows how to find the visually uncanny in the mundane.
When COVID sidelined cast and crew of "American Utopia," Byrne offered ticket-holders a refund or the option to attend a reimagined performance with whatever cast members could cook up in a …
She knew that her country was built on exclusion and shame.
The cast of "Skeleton Crew," Dominique Morisseau's play about Black auto-plant workers facing rumors of a shutdown, takes a field trip to check out the set.
Performing in the new revival of "Assassins," I've become acquainted with the particular nerves that singing Stephen Sondheim's complex songs can inspire.
In a splashy new Broadway revival of Meredith Willson's 1957 musical, "The Music Man," the actress stars opposite Hugh Jackman, who plays the smooth-talking con artist Harold Hil…
The composer and lyricist never felt that women become obsolete in the theatre"not if you write them the songs.
His legacy is one that will be debated and argued over as long as people care about musical theatre.
I borrowed his cast albums from my school library so many times that the librarians finally let me keep them.
In Lynn Nottage's new play, characters' life stories come between slapstick riffs on sandwich-making; Alice Childress's 1955 play makes its much belated Broadway début.
In "The Interview," directed by Jon Miller and Zach Russo, formerly incarcerated people describe what it's like trying to convince a group of strangers that they are more than the worst thi…
The "Succession" star discusses her chemistry with Kieran Culkin, her life in the theatre, and why bantering with the Roy family really is a bit like doing Shakespeare.
The "Hamilton" creator's directorial début, "Tick, Tick . . . Boom!," channels the bohemian life and spirit of the theatre composer Jonathan Larson.
The formative era of Nigeria's film industry, in the nineteen-nineties, is the setting for this new play by Jocelyn Bioh, opening on Nov. 11, at MCC Theatre.
Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in "The Music Man," Beanie Feldstein in "Funny Girl," Lynn Nottage's "MJ," and more.
