1,898 stories from The New Yorker
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…
Emily Nussbaum: "It would feel good to critique the new version [of the show] with a tolerant smile - to say simply that you shouldn't judge any sitcom too harshly, early on. ... I can't wri…
The new staging of the musical is an intimate extravaganza, packed with ideas about the body, gender roles, and fear of closeness.
Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell illustrates the humorous six-degree thought process that leads from dancing to Kevin Bacon.
The playwright's 1974 work defends the purpose of art as an activity that can grant a sliver of immortality.
"More than being Dominican, more than being an immigrant, more, even, than being of African descent, my rape defined me. I spent more energy running from it than I did living. ... And always…
Michael Schulman writes about Tina Fey's "Mean Girls," now a musical on Broadway.
This is a fine, nuanced, complex piece of writing. For example: "How are we meant to feel about art that we both love and oppose? What if we are in the unusual position of having helped crea…
"The canon is lousy with authors who yearn to be admired for their sensitivity to the full range of female personhood, be that personhood luscious, pert, or swelling coyly against a sheer ca…
Just as the advent of the commercial recording industry (and, later, the evolution of analog recording formats, from wax cylinders to 78-r.p.m. disks and long-playing vinyl records) changed …
Rebecca Mead writes about the conflicts and compromises of the musical adaptation of "Frozen" on Broadway, directed by Michael Grandage.
