1,908 stories from The New Yorker
Lin-Manuel Miranda's rightfully lauded hip-hop musical "Hamilton," which has just opened on Broadway after a smash run at the Public, is about many things, among them men: how they fight, wr…
E. L. Doctorow died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was eighty-four. Widely celebrated for his often formally adventurous historical novels""The Book of Daniel," "Ragtime,"Â "Billy Bathgate,"�…
"A Dynamic Home for Artists and New Music of All Kinds," the home page says on the Web site for National Sawdust, a cutting-edge venue in Williamsburg that opens, after much anticipation,…
I want to say a special word about Dave Malloy's "Preludes," because it is the work of an artist who is not afraid to try things, or to create worlds that haven't necessarily been seen befor…
In 1727, a writer and editor named Lewis Theobald was preparing to unveil "Double Falsehood," a tragicomedy that he said was based on manuscripts of a lost play by Shakespeare. "The good old…
Movies change over the years. Decades ago, I saw "Grey Gardens" as a story of a festering delusion of the American aristocracy and the closed circles of high society decaying into inanition …
Broadway loves a messy, washed-up diva who cleans up (only so much) for a comeback, and on Monday night that diva was "Smash." It's been two years since NBC cancelled the series, a musical d…
The Tony Awards broadcast is an act of contortion, in which one medium (live theatre) simultaneously puffs itself up and scrunches itself down to fit into another (television). Every once in…
In the late nineteen-nineties, Elise Engler asked an upstairs neighbor a vexing philosophical question: Is a safety pin a thing? Engler is an artist, and she was working on a sequence of dra…
Telling it like it was and wasn't.
"Woman Before a Glass"; "Primo"; "Orson's Shadow."
Trials and tribulations on Broadway and Off.
Romance; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Donald Margulies and David Rabe on the not-so-sweet smell of success.
“K.I. from ‘Crime’ ” and “Belize.”
Neil LaBute’s “Fat Pig.”
Dame Edna, Woody Allen, and the selfish gene.
Rage takes the stage.
"Whoopi," "The God of Hell."
THE HITMAKER by ROBERT GOTTLIEB
George S. Kaufman.
RESONATING
Lillian Ross visits Randy Quaid on the set of Sam Shepard’s new play.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY DEPT.
Michael Specter on the activist Larry Kramer’s latest speech.
Should a charge of plagiarism ruin your life?
"Frozen."
Tennessee Williams’s unknown one-acts.
CINDERELLA STORY by Nancy Franklin
Women, and men, make themselves heard.
“Richard III” and “Reckless.”
