1,908 stories from The New Yorker
Patricia Marx on why Jo Ann Veneziano, an accountant from New Jersey, has seen "Sweeney Todd" a hundred and thirty-seven times.
New York City Ballet and New York Theatre Ballet honor the choreographer's centenary.
Michael Schulman writes about Frances McDormand's Best Actress Oscar, and her speech demanding that more women tell their stories in the movies.
Adam Gopnik on a new memoir that shows how the composer brought back the masses by returning the musical to an earlier form. Â
Alex Ross on the company's tacky "Semiramide" and glorious "Parsifal."
Hilton Als on "Jerry Springer: The Opera" and "Black Light."
Revisiting an imperfect but useful litmus test in light of #MeToo
The latest staging, by Phelim McDermott, evokes Coney Island in the nineteen-fifties.
The two big New York-based ballet companies perform at Lincoln Center, and Dance Theatre of Harlem returns.
Most of the theatre season deals with the lives of mere Muggles.
Michael Schulman on how the Tony Award-winning rock musical "Spring Awakening" relates to the experience of the student survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.
Hilton Als writes that in the playwright's latest work, his slick cynicism threatens to overtake his real gifts.Â
Cynthia Zarin writes about "Returning to Reims," a stage play from the German troupe the Schaubühne, based on the French philosopher Didier Eribon's memoir.
Ian Buruma writes about his time visiting Japanese theatres in the nineteen-seventies.
Rebecca Mead on a new Broadway production of Tony Kushner's play, in which puppeteers conjure a heavenly being from feathers and feelings.
In "The Leisure Seeker," they play a couple on a Winnebago odyssey. In New York, they did a morning-show blitz. Michael Schulman writes.
Amanda Petrusich reviews "May It Last," a documentary, directed by Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio, about the folk-rock band the Avett Brothers.
Michael Schulman on the six sisters' fashion line, which rebrands their father's message for the pussy-hat era.
In "Stories by Heart," his one-man show, the actor plays a neighborhood barber. He took a field trip to meet one in Manhattan. Anna Russell reports.Â
Michael Schulman on the diversity of the 2018 Academy Award nominations and whether the Academy has moved past its #OscarsSoWhite controversy from years past.
Michael Schulman writes about GrowNYC, which teaches students"largely from immigrant populations"how to make a living in agriculture.Â
Rebecca Mead talks with the distinguished British director, who is adapting the animated musical for Broadway.
Michael Schulman writes about Oprah Winfrey and the women of the 2018 Golden Globe ceremony.
Daniel Pollack-Pelzner writes about the opening of the musical "Hamilton" in London in the era of Brexit and Donald Trump.
The director and playwright is back, with "Paradiso," a work that explores his interest in myth and the mundane.
