Leave everything at home and tell that friend with the speakers to come through, because Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights is the glimmering rainbow under an open fire hydrant, and with just as much force.
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Animal Wisdom is a delightful two hours spent in the company of a woman who knows how to old-school entertain and serves as the year’s best highlight reel for Christian’s talent.
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NYT: A cadre of Yale drama graduates have followed up a first streaming hit with “This American Wife,” a reality-blurring look at the long-running reality TV franchise.
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You don’t walk into a play titled Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama expecting realism, and yet, in this staging, one longs for the flowery melodrama the name promises.
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With the rapid-fire announcement of (almost) every Broadway show’s return this week came the question: Who will actually be starring in these?
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Foster’s got the technique and charm, but her clean-cut style already points to this growing trend that makes me nervous for the state of musical comedy.
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The West Side Story teaser… It’s giving community theatre. It’s giving ‘80s sappiness.
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It came as a delightful shock (or with loving horror), to receive a text yesterday asking whether I knew that the Rich Man’s Frug was quickly becoming the latest TikTok dance trend.
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A conversation with self-described “theatre YouTube nerd” Billy Magnussen about his stage roots and his new role on HBO Max’s Made for Love.
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Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s' first installment of an epic 10-play ‘Katrina cycle’ for the Public signals the beginning of what promises to be a staggering achievement in theatre which concerns itself with race, ecology, queer feminism, and human displacement.
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No thoughts this week, just Gwen Verdon.
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While this column is usually a site of diva worship, “John Cullum: An Accidental Star” got me thinking about Broadway’s leading men and the curiously small place they occupy in our cultural awareness.
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