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A Righteous Fury and a Capacious Heart: Remembering Larry Kramer

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Why the ‘Brilliant and Improbable’ Musical, A Strange Loop, Deserved Its Pulitzer

Vogue.com’s theater critic is a Contributing Editor at the magazine. He also writes for and is working on a memoir for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. So there you have it.

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ONE OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE and sustained laughs I’ve ever witnessed in a theater came during the first act of Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical memory play , starring a then-unknown Matthew Broderick as Simon’s teenage alter ego Eugene Morris Jerome.…

Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick Finally Partner Up in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite

WHEN WEST SIDE STORY opened on Broadway more than 60 years ago, it shocked critics with its savage depiction of racially motivated teenage gang violence on the streets of New York City—even as Leonard Bernstein’s ravishing jazz- and Latin-inflected…

How Ivo Van Hove Remixed West Side Story for the 21st Century

A FEW YEARS AGO I was sitting in the dimness of the Music Box Theatre on West 45th Street watching a rehearsal of the soon-to-open musical Shuffle Along when Adrienne Warren, a slight young woman with delicate features, walked onstage and,…

Simply the Best! Meet the Electrifying Star Bringing Tina Turner to Broadway

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In 2005, when I was visiting London, a magician friend told me that I had to see the English mentalist Derren Brown, who was appearing in the West End, in his one-man show “Something Wicked This Way Comes.” Brown had become famous for an astonishing…

How Derren Brown Remade Mind Reading for Skeptics

Every once in a while, the hubris and pretension of undergraduate student theater leads to something great. Such was the case at Wesleyan University in 1998, when a junior named Thomas Kail got bitten by the theater bug after his friend Anthony…

Hamilton’s Thomas Kail Returns to His Improv Roots with Freestyle Love Supreme

BAZ LUHRMANN WAS BORN to reinvent the movie musical for a new generation—which is exactly what he did in 2001 with Moulin Rouge!, his deliriously romantic mash-up, set in 1890s Paris, of La Bohème, La Traviata, and the Orpheus myth, with a…

Moulin Rouge! Is Reinvented for the Stage—And a New Generation

For the liner notes to the peerless comedy duo Nichols and May’s 1959 album Improvisations to Music, Elaine May famously provided the following terse bio: “Miss May does not exist.” At the time, May and her partner, Mike Nichols, were beginning their…

Elaine May Gave the Most Thrilling Theater Performance of the Year in The Waverly Gallery

If someone were to give you a free-association test and say, “Broadway,” the first word that would probably spring to mind would be “musicals.” If you thought about it a little longer, you might come up with “prestige London transfers” or…

Meet the Playwrights, Actors, and Directors Radically Reshaping Broadway

One of the takeaways from the 2019 Tony Awards nominations, which were announced this morning, is that the membrane between the commercial world of Broadway and the more experimental world of downtown theater is becoming increasingly porous. Leading…

Takeaways from the 2019 Tony Nominations: Downtown Comes to Broadway

The theater director Sam Gold has become the go-to guy for powerfully spare productions that forgo showy stage tricks to put the focus on the writing and the acting: Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-winning The Flick; a radically stripped-down The Glass…

Glenda Jackson and Ruth Wilson on Bringing a Modern King Lear to Broadway

At their best, one-person plays have the intimacy and urgency of an encounter with someone who needs to get something off his or her chest, ideally portrayed by an actor who compels us to listen. Two such plays—Simon Stephens’s Sea Wall and Nick…

Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal Return to the New York Stage in Sea Wall/A Life

Aaron Sorkin has never met a stirringly idealistic speech that he didn’t like. He made a name for himself before he was 30 with the 1989 Broadway production of his courtroom drama A Few Good Men (and the subsequent Hollywood adaptation). And he…

Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird Arrives on Broadway

One night in 2012, the English playwright Jez Butterworth and his partner, the actress Laura Donnelly, were watching a television documentary about the “Disappeared”—the people in Northern Ireland who had been abducted, killed, and buried, their…

Jez Butterworth’s Irish Family Epic The Ferryman Comes to Broadway

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For Lucas Hedges, acting is a kind of ongoing education in how to live in the world. Take his performance as a troubled and mordant young man who’s just lost his father in Kenneth Lonergan’s gorgeously melancholy 2016 film Manchester by the…

With a Bushel of New Film Roles—And a Broadway Debut—Lucas Hedges Is Learning to Love the Spotlight

Armie Hammer is a straight white man who made a name for himself playing such big-screen paragons of straight white manhood as The Social Network’s Winklevoss twins and the Lone Ranger. He went on, of course, to grow as an actor and cement his…