Michael Schulman reviews the musical "Head Over Heels,"at the Hudson Theatre, which features the first openly transgender woman to originate a major role on Broadway.
Michael Schulman on "Whitney," a new documentary about the singer Whitney Houston, directed by Kevin Macdonald.
Joan Acocella reviews the Broadway revival of "Carousel," at the Imperial Theatre, directed by Jack O'Brien and starring Renée Fleming, Jessie Mueller, Lindsay Mendez, Amar Ramasar, and Jos…
Michael Schulman writes about the film "Eighth Grade," in which the former YouTube star turns on the medium that made him famous.
David Remnick writes about Bruce Springsteen's heartfelt statement, in the middle of a performance of his Broadway show, about the scenes at the Texas-Mexico border.
Michael Schulman on the in-demand character actress Ann Dowd, and her adventures with cattle prods, nuns, and hoarders.
Michael Shulman reviews the 2018 Tony Awards, which he writes did not stint on weird juxtapositions, tuneful numbers, or memorable speeches.
On The New Yorker Radio Hour, the actress turned politician turned actress returns to Broadway, and the senator struggles to be a Republican in the age of Trump.
Michael Schulman reviews "House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row," a new book by Lance Richardson about the brothers Tommy and David Nutter.
At a performance of "The Band's Visit," on Broadway, New York's police band jammed with the show's Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra.
Michael Schulman writes about the folding of Interview Magazine, which was created in 1969 by the artist Andy Warhol.
Marina Harss writes about Michelle Dorrance, a tap innovator working with the American Ballet Theatre who wants to bring a little noise to ballet.
Telling stories punctuated by standards, Turner recalls falling in love with the theatre.
Now that the kids who grew up on "The Carol Burnett Show" are middle-aged, the actress is finding new fans on Netflix, Michael Schulman writes.
"Pretty Woman" comes to Broadway, Armie Hammer stars in "Straight White Men," and Chukwudi Iwuji plays Othello in Central Park.
Michael Schulman writes about the 2018 Tony Award nominees, including "Mean Girls," "Three Tall Women," "The Iceman Cometh," "SpongeBob SquarePants," and others.
Michael Schulman reviews two new projects about Grace Jones and Donna Summer"the bio-musical "Summer," and the documentary "Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami."
In Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," the director Rachel Chavkin sees a play for the resistance.
"On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, New Yorker writers" - Elif Batuman, Richard Brody, Larissa MacFarquhar, Vinson Cunningham, Rebecca Mead, Ph…
Elif Batuman meets some of the actors who play fake family members, the clients who hire them, and the agency entrepreneurs who bring client and erstwhile family together.
Even though the technologies are new, the horror and despair of the current informational carnage are not unprecedented. Since the beginning of the Internet, the unintended consequences of i…
Hilton Als looks at class, colonialism, and self-creation in Bartlett Sher's production of "My Fair Lady," starring Lauren Ambrose and Harry Hadden-Paton.
After showing poise and fortitude opposite Romeo and in "A Doll's House, Part 2," the Broadway actress takes on the titular martyr-troublemaker of "Saint Joan."
Cynthia Zarin writes that the work of the English playwright Tom Stoppard, whose 1974 play "Travesties" opens on Broadway on April 24th, explores shifting identities.
"Lamar's historic win figures in the grander, affected consecration of blackness within élite spaces"exemplified, I think, by the "thousand flowers of expectation" blooming in Kehinde Wiley…