Monday, May 26, 2025
The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.
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The inveterate character actor discusses Don Quixote, his time as George Clooney’s roommate, and his latest gig: m.c.ing John Mulaney’s absurdist talk show.
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The L.A. wildfires have resurfaced an old question: Are times too dark for a glitzy awards ceremony?
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The actor discusses the West Philly musicians that inspired his style; the rejection that nearly made him quit show business; and the experience of making “Sing Sing” with former members…
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Jamie Lloyd, the very inked director of the new Broadway revival of “Sunset Boulevard,” gets a new tattoo inspired by the show.
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The actor reflects on his journey in reverse: from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.
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Sister Margaret McEntee inspired the play “Doubt,” by her former pupil John Patrick Shanley. Her fellow Sisters of Charity went to see the Broadway revival.
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Essentially boom boxes on three wheels, the bicycle-drawn carriages are prompting theatre owners to push back.
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The actor Robert Shaw used to bring his son Ian to the “Jaws” set. Now Ian’s playing his dad in “The Shark Is Broken,” his play about the mechanical predator.
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It was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of “Kimberly Akimbo,” the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.
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Adrienne Warren stars in “Room,” Rachel Chavkin directs the satire “The Thanksgiving Play,” accident-prone Brits put on “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” and more.
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Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford in “Sweeney Todd,” Aaron Sorkin’s revised “Camelot,” Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat together onstage, and more.
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The Broadway transfer of “KPOP,” “1776” with a twist, Tom Stoppard’s personal new play, “Leopoldstadt,” and more.
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Houshang Touzie parked cars and got punched by Mr. T on “The A-Team” before being cast in the theatrical version of Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner.”
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Ariana DeBose shined as the host, Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” was deservedly awarded, and the night was high-spirited fun.
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Danai Gurira plays Richard III at Shakespeare in the Park, “The Kite Runner” opens on Broadway, Elevator Repair Service adapts Chekhov for “Seagull,” and more.
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Meet the parents who thought it was a good idea to have their kids audition to play young Michael Jackson.
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Michael R. Jackson’s salty musical “A Strange Loop,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in “Macbeth,” and more.
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I borrowed his cast albums from my school library so many times that the librarians finally let me keep them.
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The “Hamilton” creator’s directorial début, “Tick, Tick . . . Boom!,” channels the bohemian life and spirit of the theatre composer Jonathan Larson.
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Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster in “The Music Man,” Beanie Feldstein in “Funny Girl,” Lynn Nottage’s “MJ,” and more.
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To plug Keenan Scott II’s new play, “Thoughts of a Colored Man,” the producers sent a mobile barbershop around the city, in an attempt to diversify a Broadway audience that, Scott says…
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The awards ceremony was a pep rally and a processing of trauma, but it also raised questions about inclusivity.
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Last spring’s doomed Broadway season is revived, along with plays by Lynn Nottage, Alice Childress, Lucas Hnath, Annie Baker, and more.
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The actress, now eighty-nine, spent decades being typecast and belittled. In a new documentary, she tries to recover her story.
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Shakespeare in the Park returns with “Merry Wives,” Aleshea Harris’s “What to Send Up When It Goes Down” at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and more.
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After a rehearsal for a virtual production of the play, Hawke and his co-star John Leguizamo ponder how all dialogue now sounds like Beckett.
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Michael Schulman reviews the telecast of the Tony Awards, hosted by James Corden, in which Rachel Chavkin, Elaine May, and others gave winning speeches.
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Michael Schulman reviews Joe Mantello’s Broadway production of Lucas Hnath’s play “Hillary and Clinton,” about the life of the former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and the 2…
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Michael Schulman writes on “Oklahoma!” and “What the Constitution Means to Me,” two current theatre productions that have unsettling stories to tell about statehood.
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Shoved into a locker as a teen, the actor Will Roland vowed to transform himself—and made it to the nerd-heaven of Broadway, Michael Schulman writes.
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Revivals offer enticing actor pairings, including Adam Driver and Keri Russell, in “Burn This,” and Annette Bening and Tracy Letts, in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons.”
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Michael Schulman recaps his night at the 2019 Oscars ceremony, and at the Vanity Fair after-party.
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Michael Schulman writes on the fraught Oscars season—including controversy surrounding the film “Green Book” and Kevin Hart—and the broadcast, on Sunday night, of the Academy Awards.
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Michael Schulman interviews the actress Jane Curtin on her sitcom years, the early, turbulent days of “S.N.L.,” and the shifting sands of the present.
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The New Yorker writers Michael Schulman and Naomi Fry discuss the history of the red carpet, from Aeschylus to Joan Rivers, in anticipation of the Academy Awards.
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Michael Schulman on the playwright’s combination of memoir and civics lesson in a show for the Trump era.
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Michael Schulman on the star of the one-woman show, who learned, after a curtain-call tumble, that having two broken arms is not unlike being an astronaut.
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Michael Schulman and Rick Negron, who plays a Trumpish King George III in the hit musical “Hamilton,” stroll the plazas of Negron’s home town.
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Michael Schulman on Lin-Manuel Miranda’s return to “Hamilton” this month, bringing the play to the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and its significance…
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