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Do you love Hamilton? No, no; do you love it? Sure, some people have tattoos inspired by the show, and some people have devoted huge swaths of their lives to winning the ticket lottery, but …
The key thing about farce isn't the slamming of doors but the solidity of walls; without rigid order there can be no liberating chaos. The carpentry is crucial, and I doubt there's ever been…
Brian Bedford, the British stage veteran whose masterly performances and interpretations of classical roles captivated Canadian and American audiences for decades, died Wednesday in Santa Ba…
The big-deal musical of the current Broadway season (and likely many more to come) moved its preshow lottery online last week. For any other show, this news might go unnoticed, but for Hamil…
Beloved movie and theater actor Alan Rickman, 69, died in London last night "surrounded by family and friends," according to a spokesperson. He had been suffering from cancer. ... Mo…
In what might seem like run of the mill entertainment news, a talented comedic actress has taken the role of the wife in a comedy centered on a competition between two men. The film in quest…
How does a Berklee hotshot halfway to an EGOT end up playing keyboards on a tribute to a melting pot, spend half a decade working to eliminate its weak spots, and find himself sitting at the…
NBC can't stop the beat, even if it wanted to: Fresh off the widespread acclaim for its version of The Wiz, the network announced at the TCA tour on Wednesday that its next prime-time theate…
Should I listen to the cast recording before I see the show? It's a question one wonders before seeing any musical, and just like everything else in this world, it depends. Some people alway…
Two. Two-two two thousand. Two-two two thousand " 2016. A cast of wildly talented singers/rappers/actors, seemingly born to play the Founding Fathers and Mothers, in an unlikely Broadwa…
When Hamilton opened Off Broadway at the Public Theater last February, and then transferred to Broadway in August, many of the reviews, including mine, used words like historic, groundbreaki…
The opera Dog Days opens with a family, "not unlike your own, sit[ting] in a house, watching a TV that isn't on." Now, I don't know your family " mine does not include two perpetually stoned…
Denzel Washington was presented with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award by Tom Hanks during this evening's Golden Globes " and with a little help from his wife and children (and the ever…
"'Here in these hands I hold the planet, bigger than the stars and stranger than the moon ... when my mama is out looking for a boy/girl to beat, I play basketball ...' words I still k…
At HBO's TCA session for its much-anticipated 1970s rock-and-roll drama, Vinyl, the show's executive producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese beamed in via satellite. Afterwards, Vultu…
At a time when college campuses are roiled by fights over insensitive Halloween costumes, ersatz sushi, and the cultural plunder of yoga, it's almost a relief to come across an example of ho…
New York City recently decided to embrace winter, and to keep crowds of people from shivering outside on 46th Street (and, come on, let's give Lin-Manuel Miranda a break), Hamilton decided t…
Last night, at a concert at Hollywood's Catalina Bar and Grill, the audience arrived expecting a performance by Jason Robert Brown (and, according to their website, maybe some drinks and Ita…
SNL's Taran Killam stopped by the best thing on Broadway, the Hamilton ticket-lottery preshow Ham4Ham, with Lin-Manuel Miranda this weekend to drop a little knowledge all wrapped up in a Chr…
[Blows into pitch pipe] Okay, we're about here. You, go up a third. You, over there, hold the fifth. You, reach for that seventh... And a one, two, three: Mazel tov! Pitch Perfect…
Tonya Pinkins has left the Off Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, currently in previews, saying the production had "neutered" her character "…
Patricia Elliott, the Tony winner who became a fixture on ABC's One Life to Live, died of cancer Sunday in Manhattan. Playbill confirmed the 77-year-old actress's death with her niece. Ellio…
On Sunday, we learned that Hermione will be played by a black woman, Noma Dumezweni, in the London stage production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child next year. Many have applauded the lo…
It's hard enough to revive a musical that didn't work the first time; that's why John Doyle's new version of The Color Purple is rightfully such a sensation. But it may be an even harder job…
You couldn't write an argument for optimism about New York theater without invoking Annie Baker, who, at 34, is practically a metonym for the best of her Off Broadway generation: creators ma…
