Derrick Hamilton never went to law school, but prisoners across New York State have heard about his formidable legal skills, which he acquired while he was wrongly imprisoned for murder for …
Ask any young female ballet dancer what role she'd most like to dance one day, and the answer is almost always the same: Juliet. "Swan Lake" may be the Mount Everest of the profession, but "…
Two weeks ago, members of the Lebanese indie-pop band Mashrou' Leila took the stage in front of a packed crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, wearing a flamboyant yet minimal uniform of …
Making video operas you could watch on your phone occurred to Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch a few years ago in a bar in Brooklyn, at a meeting of Experiments in Opera, the comp…
Not many verbal artifacts are cooler than the first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses," which was published, in Paris, on February 2, 1922, the author's fortieth birthday. As is standard for…
"And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love," Lin-Manuel Miranda said in his moving acceptance sonnet at Sunday night’s Tony Awards ceremony"which …
For more than a year now, any half-conscious prognosticator could have told you that the 2016 Antoinette Perry Awards would unofficially be the "Hamilton" Tonys. Mostly, it was. Nominated fo…
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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…
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The Metropolitan Opera last named a new music director in May of 1975. Gerald Ford had been President for less than a year; Saigon had fallen a few weeks earlier; Barack Obama was thirteen. …
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…
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While it's always a treat to see amazing ensembles working together as they tear a play apart, the better to expose its meaning, it's thrilling in a different way to watch performers who sta…
On a sunny day in April, I visited the offices of the Sesame Workshop, across the street from Lincoln Center. At first, the space looks almost disappointingly normal, until you notice the he…
The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently staged a rare production of the entire Henriad""Richard II," "Henry IV" Parts I and II, and "Henry V""by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Henriad is …
On April 5, 1895, Oscar Wilde was holed up at the Cadogan Hotel, in London, torn between fleeing the country and facing a parlous fate. Spurred by his sometime paramour Lord Alfred Douglas, …
Yesterday, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition released its annual report of "Ethnic Representation on New York Stages." On Broadway and Off, thirty per cent of available roles we…
Here we go again, back to that terrible summer house in New England, which is yet another depressed character in Eugene O'Neill's unsurpassable "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (now in a Roun…
When Gregory Doran, the artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, first decided to direct Shakespeare's cycle of English-history plays, he met with Sir Ian McKellen and asked him i…
Shakespeare's influence is so vast that it's hard to choose a selection of New Yorker pieces about him"he comes up everywhere! Still, in honor of the four-hundredth anniversary of his dea…
On the occasion of the four-hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, New Yorker writers share their experiences of reading, watching, studying, performing, memorizing, and fa…
Susan Ades Stone, one of the women behind a campaign to put Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, is a big fan of the musical "Hamilton."Â Like Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator, …
Not long ago, a resident of the Financial District named Evan Miles settled in for a theatrical production on Forty-second Street. He was not an experienced playgoer"actually, this was his f…
In 1962, Lillian and Helen Ross published "The Player," a wonderful collection of interviews with actors, ranging from Maureen Stapleton to Sidney Poitier, many of which originated in this m…