It's only fitting that Atlantic Records is releasing its recording of Hamilton in a variety of formats that, like the hit musical itself, rewind history. The download went on sale September …
Keira Knightley was making her Broadway debut in the first preview performance of Thérèse Raquin when she was interrupted by a man who began screaming at her in the middle of the s…
Harold Pinter wrote Old Times (which opens tonight at the Roundabout) in 1971, only eight years before Caryl Churchill wrote Cloud Nine (which opened last night at the Atlantic). Though both…
As long as there have been wars, there have been dramatic stories about returning soldiers, wounded in body or spirit. From The Odyssey to Quiara Alegría Hudes's Elliot trilogy, with Th…
The drug-addict mother, the fictional son, the defective airplane parts: Secrets are at the core of many great American plays. Sometimes they are secrets kept by one character from the other…
Theater composers seem to have a thing for "beloved" novels about ambitious girls, usually orphaned, making their way in an unwelcoming world. There's a good reason for it, too: Such novels …
Look around, look around, at how lucky we are to be alive right now: Last night at the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda, Renée-Elise Goldsberry, and Daveed Diggs did a …
The voice of Marlo Thomas, so cavernously amplified it sounds as if it's coming from a secret vault at an undisclosed location outside of Marlo Thomas, expertly sets up a joke: "If you had t…
The first American production of Cloud Nine opened off Broadway on May 18, 1981, a few weeks before the Times ran its first account of what would later be known as AIDS. That's pure coincide…
We're all kicking ourselves for not seeing Broadway's latest darling Hamilton while it was still in previews at the Public Theater " since the move, tickets are almost impossible to get. But…
The fall Broadway season unofficially begins tonight with the opening of Spring Awakening, the first of six revivals in a row. It's not surprising that with so many déjà vus, and m…
The Belgian director Ivo van Hove almost always has the term avant-garde attached to his name, but with four major New York productions this season, including two on Broadway, he probably ne…
Never before have hip-hop and American history been so perfectly fused as Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway triumph, Hamilton. After months of clamoring from fans who've managed to see the …
Most plays about religion are really about politics or psychopathology. In Saint Joan, Agnes of God, and Doubt, for instance, it's not dogma that gets dramatized " how could it be? Theology …
Richard Maxwell's Isolde, opening the season at the Theatre for a New Audience, belongs to the Mad Libs school of dramaturgy, in which various more or less random elements are fitted togethe…
Art for art's sake is sometimes a diet too rich to maintain, yet art that sets out single-mindedly to feed a political agenda almost always fails to satisfy. The Public Theater, whose missio…
While we got a name for Neil Patrick Harris's upcoming NBC variety show, Best Time Ever, we still weren't sure what, exactly, would constitute such a good time. Turns out: lots of pranks! Ju…
After refusing to allow films about gay couples to open in theaters for years, Chinese censors this week approved the release of Wang Chao's Seek McCartney, a romance about a secret interrac…
In the confusing parlance of trailer language, the new Macbeth preview that debuted today is the "official U.S. trailer," even though Americans were perfectly capable of watching the…
For his new film Dirty Weekend, Neil LaBute found the title first " a British term for a weekend spent away in secret " and went from there. "I think life is that way for a lot of people, wh…
Get ready to see Bikini Bottom reimagined for a real-life stage, because a SpongeBob SquarePants musical is gunning for a Broadway debut next summer. Appropriately dubbed The SpongeBob Music…
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first black actor (as well as the youngest actor) to portray Jean Valjean in the iconic Broadway musical Les Miserables, has died at 21. Police said he fell accidenta…
If you fished Whorl Inside a Loop out of a slush pile and read only its précis, you'd probably cringe: A Broadway actress, described as the whitest person at her own Whitey Mc…
Macklemore cemented his return to radio ubiquity this morning with his latest single, "Downtown," featuring hip-hop veterans Grandmaster Caz, Kool Moe Dee, and Melle Mel, along with …
Since the earliest days of television, narrative shows have drawn from the frenetic, over-the-top energy of Broadway and vaudeville for episodes in which characters sing, dance, and chew sce…