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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.
To plug Keenan Scott II's new play, "Thoughts of a Colored Man," the producers sent a mobile barbershop around the city, in an attempt to diversify a Broadway audience that, Scott says, ofte…
A thrilling dramatization of the interrogation of the whistle-blower Reality Winner and a crowd-pleasing family comedy both rise above their pre-Broadway origins.
From the magazine's archive: a selection of pieces about the art we've missed so much.
In his new comedy, which he directs at Greenwich House Theatre, the playwright borrows from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as well as bits of "Cinderella" and "Pinocchio."
The "To Kill a Mockingbird" star returns to Broadway and discusses his protest music and how his new series, "American Rust," offers a window onto white, working-class towns like his own.
Martyna Majok's play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in America.
The novelist on his deliberate evolution away from literary formalism and "po-mo hijinks"; plus, two critics on a record-breaking season for Black playwrights on Broadway.
The awards ceremony was a pep rally and a processing of trauma, but it also raised questions about inclusivity.
In the author's work, colonization and racial hatred turn mother against child, Black against white, man against woman.
The first play to open on Broadway since the shutdown, about two down-and-out young Black men on a barren block, is a strange fit for the moment at hand.
For a nude production of "Antigonick," a translation of the Greek play "Antigone," performers for Torn Out Theatre dodged the crazies and the lookie-loos during rehearsals in Prospect …
Ngozi Anyanwu stars opposite Daniel J. Watts in her play "The Last of the Love Letters," which follows a pair of lovers grappling with their relationship, at the Atlantic Theatre Company.
David Byrne and Ruben Santiago-Hudson shared their visions for a post-lockdown, post-George Floyd Broadway in the latest edition of our subscriber-only event series.
After more than a year of abandoned stages and empty theatres, the minds behind the Broadway shows "American Utopia" and "Lackawanna Blues" speak with the New Yorker staff writer and critic …
New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre return to Lincoln Center, the Joyce hosts Ragamala Dance and Caleb Teicher, and more.
