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It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions. The day of the Tony Award nominations is like college acceptance day a bit earlier [...]

It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions. The day of the Tony Award nominations is like college acceptance day a bit earlier [...]

Redesign? Relaunch? Regret? Take a look at the ways publishers aimed to seduce new audiences by changing up the covers of notable books. ''You never get a second chance to [...]

Many of the plays and musicals that resonated this year deftly married elements of drama and comedy. Jesse Green's Best Theater | Unforgettable Experiences Year of the Dramedy If 2023 [...]

Many of the plays and musicals that resonated this year deftly married elements of drama and comedy. Jesse Green’s Best Theater | Unforgettable Experiences Year of the Dramedy If 2023 [...]

Molly Bolt may not be as renowned as Holden Caulfield, but to those who know her name, she is as much (if not more) of a literary hero. The precocious [...]

Molly Bolt may not be as renowned as Holden Caulfield, but to those who know her name, she is as much (if not more) of a literary hero. The precocious [...]

In its June 26, 1948, issue, The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson's unsettling story ''The Lottery,'' and it's not an overstatement to say that readers freaked out. They wrote letters [...]

In its June 26, 1948, issue, The New Yorker published Shirley Jackson’s unsettling story “The Lottery,” and it’s not an overstatement to say that readers freaked out. They wrote letters [...]

Tony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough. Not everyone can wake up to good news on [...]

Tony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough. Not everyone can wake up to good news on [...]

In a time of renewed awakening, a surprising number of shows smartly reflected those changes in song. Best Theater of 2022 | Unforgettable Experiences A Year That Kept on Singing, [...]

For his eerie installation, ''A Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco,'' the artist looked to Maggie Nelson, Hollywood glamour and upstate New York. Exiled, like many an artist, [...]

We spoke to three actors and a playwright -- Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz -- who are taking big shots this season. Gregg Mozgala, 'Cost of [...]

Byline: Scott Heller In a 34-year run at New York Theater Workshop, James C. Nicola held that directors and writers are equal partners - and helped send 'Rent' and 'Hadestown' [...]

In a 34-year run at New York Theater Workshop, James C. Nicola held that directors and writers are equal partners -- and helped send ''Rent'' and ''Hadestown'' to Broadway. The [...]

Nearly 20 years after opening on Broadway, plans for a movie version of ''Wicked'' are finally accelerating. And last month, the film's director, Jon M. Chu gave fans a peek [...]

Michael Mayer had one eye on his ''Funny Girl'' cast and one eye on his phone. The cast was rehearsing ''His Love Makes Me Beautiful,'' a comic song from the [...]

Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child's first fireworks. Best Theater of 2021 | Unforgettable [...]

Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91. Passionate tributes to Stephen Sondheim came quickly as the [...]

Listening to the album. Singing along at the show. And wearing a loincloth to play the title role. All fresh in our readers' minds in the 50 years since. Fifty [...]

Scott Heller, who oversees Arts & Leisure, hasn't seen ''Squid Game,'' has read the Franzen novel and is excited to contemplate Frances McDormand, Saiorse Ronan and Ruth Negga all playing [...]

Byline: Scott Heller The pandemic pause has prompted a prizewinning cohort to ask hard questions about salaries, working in other media and choosing collaboration over 'scarcity.' By most measures, they're [...]

The pandemic pause has prompted a prizewinning cohort to ask hard questions about salaries, working in other media and choosing collaboration over ''scarcity.'' By most measures, they're doing great. Four [...]

After a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum's reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events. The Williamstown Theater [...]

In the 50 years since the musical's debut, revivals and concerts have served its great songs to great stars. Who'd be our Broadway babies 25 years from now? ''Follies'' is [...]

With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups -- some notable, some new -- stepped into the breach. Andrew Lloyd Webber There are producers serving [...]

It wasn't the year for celebration. But watching innovation flourish inspired our chief critic, while other writers found the joys of the stage in other media. Best Theater of 2020 [...]

Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals -- all for your streaming pleasure. ''Cabaret'' and ''Cats'' are pretty [...]

The fall After criticism over gender parity, Pearl Cleage, Larissa FastHorse, Adrienne Kennedy and Sarah Ruhl will be featured in the spring. In the wake of complaints that ''Spotlight on [...]

Scott Heller, the theater editor, has been happily diverted in other directions while on the hunt for satisfying Zoom plays. SPRING FORWARD One of the all-time great walk-and-talk movies (now [...]

End unpaid internships. Set term limits for leaders. Get real about inclusion. Take performances to the streets. Say yes to joy, and no to couch plays. Whoopi Goldberg had a [...]

In any year but this one, outdoor theater is part of the rhythm of summertime. We base our migrations on it, making pilgrimages to favorite seasonal spots. As ancient as [...]

Miranda's rap. Rylance's poems. Jackman's pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for ''Turkey Lurkey Time.'' The 500 guests at the American [...]

Harvey Fierstein, Betty Buckley and more on the sunny songwriter behind ''Hello, Dolly!'' and ''Mame,'' who hoped that even a flop would find a second life. Everyone described Jerry Herman [...]