With the annual announcement of the Tony nominations comes the yearly list of snubs and surprises, as this season's shows see their dreams realized " or their hopes dashed " and prognosticat…
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Sufjan Stevens's indie folk concept album "Illinois" (2005) is whimsical, earnest, and sorrowful; it weaves together events and figures from Illinois history (including UFO sightings, Pullma…
Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a "theater rat." So it's natural she'd be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner …
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby," which captured the roaring twenties with shocking clarity, is a staple of high school curricula and has been immortalized in two famous f…
Director Lila Neugebauer sets Lincoln Center Theater's starry, breathtaking new Broadway production of Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in current-day America rather than Russia around 1898, th…
When a character in the new musical "The Heart of Rock and Roll" tries to convince his ex to leave her job at a factory that makes shipping materials, he is stunned: "Oh, my god. It's cardbo…
In Peter Morgan's tantalizing but disappointing new play "Patriots," Boris Berezovsky is presented as a larger-than-life oligarch in a post-Soviet Russia who transforms Vladimir Putin from a…
When Eddie Redmayne's slithering Emcee assures the audience at "Cabaret" that "here, life is beautiful," he's telling a half-truth. The August Wilson Theater, done up like the Kit Kat Club f…
"Hell's Kitchen" opened on Broadway on April 20, 2024. The following is Aramide Tinubu's review of the show's Off Broadway premiere published on Nov. 19, 2023. The credits and copy have been…
There's a moment in David Adjmi's play "Stereophonic" when a discordant, mid-'70s band-on-the rise hears one of its songs played back to them in the recording studio for the first time, with…
A musical that captures the sweep of history in all its complexities without sacrifice of character or credibility is no easy feat. Â But "Suffs," which tells the story of the final push …
A flight of imagination born of the trippy 1970s, "The Wiz" can shoulder a lot of interpretation. Sidney Lumet's shadowy film, starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, sets the Black spin on…
Grant Gustin, the former CW superhero now making his Broadway debut in the musical "Water for Elephants," has been headlining his current, critically praised stage gig since it began preview…
To the list of larger-than-life, survivalist women in musical theater, add Tamara de Lempicka " but with an asterisk. The name of the Polish-born portraitist who died in 1980 might not be fa…
According to theater lore, it was Elizabeth I who demanded Shakespeare write another play about Falstaff, which, allegedly, is why he wrote "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Queen might have…
Tough guys with a soft side have long held a firm grip on the American imagination. S.E. Hinton's novel "The Outsiders," about a cadre of down-and-out boys, has been read by millions of rest…
No one, wisely, has turned "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" into an opera " not least because, arguably, Eugene O'Neill's most famous play already is one. It features extended solo arias mi…
The Tony-winning Broadway icon Bernadette Peters has long been considered one of the foremost performers of composer Stephen Sondheim's work. But as Peters revealed in the latest episode of …
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that love bone-shaking, ear-splitting spectacles, like fireworks and arena-sized heavy metal concerts, and those who want nothing more than…
At the start of the second half of Ivo Van Hove's production of his own musical version of John Cassavetes' ultra-Seventies backstager "Opening Night" " with music and lyrics by Rufus Wainwr…
Ever feel like running away from home to join a musical? Then "Water for Elephants" would be the show of choice that offers escapism, enchantment and heart " and thrills, too. Based on Sa…
Juliana Canfield didn't mean to lie when she was auditioning for the play "Stereophonic" " it just accidentally happened. Listen to this week's "Stagecraft" podcast below: The actor, w…
Musical theater can be a sucker for a romantic tale, whether it's about obsessive devotion, idealized passion, or lost loves. "The Notebook," based on Nicholas Sparks' bestselling, 1996 debu…
Even if you don't know "The Notebook," you know there's a romantic couple at the heart of the story. But in the new Broadway musical adaptation of "The Notebook," there's not just one couple…