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John Lithgow on the Controversial Authors Roald Dahl and J. K. Rowling
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Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson Will Make Their Broadway Debuts in ‘The Fear of 13’ This Spring
Last March, Adrien Brody took the stage of the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to claim the best-actor Oscar for his performance in The…
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The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi…
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Checkmate! Chess Returned to Broadway with a Starry Opening Night and After-Party
The curtain soon rose to unveil masterful production elements, including a live feed broadcast (à la Sunset Boulevard), a band flanking…
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The Broadway Allure of Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon
Linklater, who never makes the same movie twice—except when he does it three times, as in Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before…
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Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large,…
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Rachel Zegler, Audra McDonald, Hillary Clinton, and More Celebrate the Broadway Revival of ‘Ragtime’
On Thursday evening, all of Manhattan seemed to hum with a new music as Lincoln Center Theater’s splendid revival of Ragtime celebrated…
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CAA’s Women on Broadway Toasts the Season’s Leading Ladies (and Their Leading Roles)
On a rainy Monday afternoon, as New York’s theatermakers braced for the eye of their own season’s storm, a select few found refuge at…
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Sarah Paulson, Goldie Hawn, Jodie Foster, Rose Byrne, and More Gather to Celebrate the Opening of ‘Art’ on Broadway
Art can divide as easily as it connects. This is one of the quandaries at the heart of Art, Yasmina Reza’s smash-hit 1994 play about three…
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Jonathan Groff Toast the Start of the Broadway Season—and the Undersung Work of New 42 Studios
New 42 Studios is also a meaningful place for Groff. From his 2005 Broadway debut, in the musical In My Life, and his breakout role in the…
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An Eerily Prescient New ‘Ragtime’ Heads to Broadway
Lear deBessonet’s debut production as artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater offers a gripping and complex vision of the American…
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Summer Is the Time for Off Broadway Comedy
When the political activist, comedian, and performance artist Morgan Bassichis premièred their exquisitely funny show “Can I Be Frank?” in…
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Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight
In the late days of June, as the old theatre season was ebbing away and new-season announcements were rolling in, a shock hit New York.…
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'Real Women Have Curves' on Broadway: A Review | TCF
As someone with several curvy dancer friends whose dreams of performing on big stages were crushed by teachers and casting directors…
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Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off
This has been the season of the star. For months now, possibly because the film and television industries spent 2024 in disarray, New York…
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Sadie Sink on the Magic of Broadway, the Music That Soundtracked Her Coming of Age, and Her Tony-Nominated Role in ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’
One thing I was thinking a lot about in rehearsals was what my high school experience looked like. People would tell stories from school…
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How the Broadway Musical “Maybe Happy Ending” Creates Visual Magic
The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set…
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Bill Burr Does Not Want to Talk About Politics
Journalism is not standup comedy. We’re not in the same world. So what do you think your responsibility is? My responsibility is to make…
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As Broadway Ticket Prices Soar, Hugh Jackman and Sonia Friedman Are Piloting a Different Kind of Theater Experience
The Creditors team would head down to Minetta Lane later that evening to see Jackman and Beatty run through their piece—exactly the kind…
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How Jinkx Monsoon Made Her Way to Broadway in ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’
Monsoon shares the Pirates! marquee with a pair of Broadway icons: David Hyde Pierce and Ramin Karimloo, with whom she shares a close…
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As Off Broadway Crews Unionize, Workers See Hope, Producers Peril
A unionization wave sweeping across Off Broadway is poised to reshape the economics of theater-making in New York — for workers as well as…
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Idina Menzel makes rare comment about 15-year-old son
Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors Idina Menzel shared some rare insight into her relationship with her…
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Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
Sanaz Toossi began writing “English,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, now at the Roundabout’s Todd Haimes Theatre, as her…
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The Liberated Life of Colman Domingo
The last time I talked to Colman Domingo, in 2021, his life was completely different. At fifty-one, he was a successful character actor,…