1,898 stories from The New Yorker
Some actresses prefer to meet a journalist for the first time with a press agent in tow; some opt for the neutrality of a restaurant; some suggest the distracting hubbub of the sound stage. …
In seventh grade, I became completely obsessed with the 1981 musical "Merrily We Roll Along," by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. It was my introduction to cynicism, set to a brassy Broadw…
In an era of binge-watching, live-tweeting, and the Oculus Rift, how can theatre compete as all-consuming entertainment? Perhaps it's our desire to be more than spectators"to be sucked headl…
Anna Deavere Smith has carved out a singular niche straddling performance art, academia, and public-interest journalism. Her documentary solo works, in which she plays a panoply of interview…
It's become a cliché of this election season that, if you were to present the current Presidential race as fiction, no one would believe it. So what better time to hear from a group of fict…
The thirty-eight-year-old actor Andrew Rannells is part of a new crop of gay stars"like Chris Colfer and Tituss Burgess"who never had to bother to be closeted in the public eye. Lean and boy…
There's something unnervingly wholesome about Olmsted, the new garden-to-table eatery in Prospect Heights. Enter it and you find an alternate reality: bathrooms smell like lemon verbena, bea…
In four days, we saw every show ever produced on or off Broadway except "Hamilton"; sadly, none of us was willing step up and perform the necessary sex work. We devoured upward of three dinn…
What were you up to on Friday, September 16th? Did you think about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton? Did you talk about the election with the people you encountered? Chances are that you did,…
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon are two Upper West Side alter kakers who are partial to turtlenecks, cultural programs at the Y, and the oeuvre of Alan Alda. For a time, they hosted a …
A few days before graduating from Columbia University, in May, 2015, the actress and model Hari Nef showed up at a Flatiron office building to meet Ivan Bart, the president of IMG, the agenc…
Writing that gets under your skin, in your bones, will play in your head and memory like nothing else. While painting, photography, and movies can come at you with a very particular force"an…
Growing up in Manhattan in the eighties, I loved the TV commercials for the electronics chain "Crazy Eddie." What kid wouldn't? The pitchman, an unholy mashup of Pee-wee Herman and Donald Tr…
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, who bear a curious resemblance to the comedians John Mulaney and Nick Kroll, are two Upper West Side alter kakers partial to turtlenecks, bra-sniffing, an…
On the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, I went to see two classical Greek tragedies about the toll of war on the human psyche. General Joseph Dunford, Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
Part of my job as the director of The New Yorker Festival is keeping a short list in my back pocket of dream "gets": those singular men and women I long to include in our annual Festival pro…
If you live in New York City long enough and appear to be successfully employed in an industry that Bernie Sanders dislikes, you will be asked at some point to do three things: sponsor a tab…
The photographer Brian Rose was in Amsterdam on September 11, 2001, when he learned, over the phone, that a plane had just flown into one of the Twin Towers. Rose, who had gone to college in…
In the future, when we look back on this first Wednesday of September, we might be bewildered that one of the biggest news stories of the day was Apple's announcement that iPhones will no lo…
On a Friday night in June at Joe's Pub, at the Public Theatre, as the writer and performer Isaac Oliver's show began, an announcement came over the P.A. system: "Isaac Oliver will be perform…
"What, lost in the labyrinth of thy fury?" The question, which might be asked of a host of current political actors, is posed by a character almost three thousand years old; Thersites, one o…
Several years ago, during a routine game of Trivial Pursuit, I was asked who had written the book on which the musical "Cats" is based. I reached for the dice to roll again before I fi…
Most theatregoers I know have an almost physical aversion to audience participation. That's probably because audience members are often cast in the role of patsy"set up to look awkward, outs…
CLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)"The 2016 Republican National Convention became embroiled in another controversy on Tuesday, as Biblical experts accused Republicans of plagiarizing the entire…
Michael Crawford was a cartoonist and a painter, a wry and sensitive artist who woke each day with his head full of dreams. Straight from bed he reached for his pencils and pad, the better t…
