13 stories by "Adam Gopnik"
Adoration, exploitation, and the strange afterlife of being celebrated too soon.
Mitchell captured New York's oddballs and renegades with an understated lyricism that transformed fact into literature.
The late songwriter's targets are mostly forgotten"so why do new generations keep discovering him?
What appalled and obsessed Victor Hugo most was the seemingly "normal nature" of the French regime, even as it committed acts of unprecedented authoritarian menace and cruelty.
In the summer of his death, Peter Foley and I talked about the shape of an artist's life made under the special pressures of the modern musical theatre.
A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.
His legacy is one that will be debated and argued over as long as people care about musical theatre.
Adam Gopnik on a new memoir that shows how the composer brought back the masses by returning the musical to an earlier form. Â
There was much talk recently about the evening that Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump spent side by side, sitting together at the Schoenfeld Theatre to watch the Canadian musical "Come from Aw…
With the confrontation between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton working its way toward its latest incarnation, what with Lin-Manuel Miranda (as Hamilton) and Leslie Odom, Jr. (as Burr), fac…
On a recent Saturday morning at the Pearl Studios, on Eighth Avenue, the most labyrinthine of all Broadway rehearsal halls, one of the most beautiful and endangered of all New York sounds su…
The Broadway musical, to the distress of those of us who think of it as America's own fine form, the thing we made first and still, Andrew Lloyd Webber be damned, make best, isn't really pop…
One of the strangest things to observe in recent weeks has been the hold on what used to be called the popular imagination of Robert Durst's final monologue in Andrew Jarecki's documentary s…
