1,898 stories from The New Yorker
Mark Mulcahy is the kind of musician that people proselytize about; several years ago, I started doing it myself. He's has had a long and varied career"with his band Miracle Legion, begin…
"A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society," Henrik Ibsen wrote in 1878, proving himself, in 2017 parlance, to be a woke bae. He …
When the Yiddish writer Sholem Asch presented his play "God of Vengeance" at a Warsaw salon in 1906, his mentor, I. L. Peretz, told him to burn it. It's a shtetl tragedy: a Jewish brothel ow…
Among the signifiers of a New York summer"the Mister Softee jingle, air-conditioner droplets messing up your hair"is the sound of blank verse. Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-August a…
This is a good time to take Florine Stettheimer seriously. The occasion is a retrospective of the New York artist, poet, designer, and Jazz Age saloniste, at the Jewish Museum, titled "Flori…
Imagine writing yourself the role of a lifetime, only to be replaced by a photogenic, puppy-eyed celebrity version of yourself. Such was the fate of Dave Malloy, the writer, composer, and or…
"Twenty years ago, Brooklyn was the Wild West. Now if you want grimy you come here," a bar-side patron explained. He was talking about Monroe, the latest offering in the area, south of Manha…
It seems like a lifetime ago that "Hamilton" swept the 2016 Tony nominations and pointed us toward a bright, progressive future. This year's nominations, which were announced Tuesday morn…
What's sweeter than a rags-to-riches story? Cinderella, Little Orphan Annie, Eliza Doolittle"all made the journey from poverty to the palace, and all have been the subjects of Broadway music…
Bette Midler is such an incredible self-creation"an artist like no other"that finding roles that can harness her enormous energy while allowing room for her wit and her extraordinary skill a…
It's not easy to describe what Randy Weiner does for a living. Some people call him an "impresario," but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum. With h…
What did you do this morning? Perhaps you woke up at your regular time, made coffee in the same machine that you did yesterday, took the same commute to work that you do every day. In adult …
Golden tickets, Oompa Loompas, the great glass elevator: the world that Roald Dahl conjured in his 1964 children's novel, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," was as fanciful as it was menac…
Allison Janney spiralled, cranelike, up the ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. She stopped in front of a Kandinsky""Black Lines" (1913), a jumble of Technicolor splotches"and gasped. "My gosh, t…
"Beauty and the Beast"
The heroine of "Amélie," the new musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre, is a dreamy Parisian café waitress who channels her childlike wonder into staging anonymous good deeds on the streets o…
"Firstly, I would like to apologize to those of you involved in our little box-office mixup," a tuxedoed man with a posh accent tells us. "I do hope the six hundred and seventeen of you affe…
"Let's start the tour at Frank Campbell," Lindy Woodhead suggested, from the back seat of a limo. Woodhead"blond, vivacious, and ample"is the author of "War Paint," a joint biography of the …
The attention paid to movie scores"particularly in concert halls, where they're often played live to accompany screenings"doesn't, for the most part, serve movies any better than music. It's…
Classical-music presenters are placing big bets on new venues, such as Williamsburg's dynamic National Sawdust. But some of the most evocative spaces may be hiding in plain sight"take the Ch…
On a Monday night this winter, at a gala in a Beaux-Arts former bank downtown, the young playwright Rachel Bonds, whose luminous "Sundown, Yellow Moon" is currently onstage uptown, made a sh…
"I was operated on when I was five or six . . . I vividly remember the counting down from ten"I don't think I made it much past eight," Malika Favre says, about her inspiration for the cover…
For centuries, Joan of Arc has been used for political purposes, and that makes sense. Born in 1412, in the middle of the Hundred Years' War, Joan saw her country overrun"fields scorched, ca…
The singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles has one of those silvery voices that can bring intimacy to a large stage. Born in Eureka, California, Bareilles played in bars in Los Angeles before brea…
A new musical opened on Broadway last week, "Come from Away," about Gander, a small town in Newfoundland that rallied to care for some seven thousand travellers stuck there after their plane…
