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J. Harrison Ghee and Alex Newell on the Tonys

By Laura Zornosa

How K-pop Star Luna Came to Broadway

By Kat Moon

Julie Benko on Embracing the 'Funny Girl' Spotlight

By Annabel Gutterman

'Whatever You Survive Becomes a Triumph, Right?' Harvey Fierstein Looks Back—Even Though He Prefers Not To

By Alex Rees
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The 10 Best Theater Performances of 2021

From Caroline, or Change to Trouble in Mind, these plays and musicals marked a tentative but triumphant return to the stage

By Eben Shapiro

Lessons for This Moment in Business From a Hit Broadway Show

Post-pandemic hiatus, 'The Lehman Trilogy,' like its audience, is more conscious of the ethical considerations that shape businesses past and present

By S. Mitra Kalita

See Photos From Broadway's Jubilant Homecoming

A photographer goes backstage at Moulin Rouge: The Musical as everyone from engineers to actors prepare to return to live performances following a long pandemic pause

By Stephanie Zacharek

The Reopening Springsteen on Broadway Brings Broadway Back

On June 26, the intimate performance by the Boss became the first show to launch after some 470 days of silence in New York’s theater district

By Stephanie Zacharek

The Best Broadway Shows to Stream at Home

From buzzy box office phenomena to poignant and personal plays

By Annabel Gutterman

Nick Cordero, Broadway Star, Dead at 41 After Coronavirus Complications

Broadway actor Nick Cordero, who starred in the plays "Bullets over Broadway" and "Waitress," died Sunday after a three month battle with COVID-19. He was 41. The actor, who according to his wife had no...

By Billy Perrigo

An Open Letter Slams Racism in the Theater

Viola Davis, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sandra Oh and some 300 other creators of color are calling out systemic racism in the theater world and demanding change

By Andrew R. Chow

Claudia Rankine Wants to Talk About White Privilege

The poet and playwright grapples with whiteness in the Trump era in a new play at The Shed in New York City

By Andrew R. Chow

The 10 Best Theater Performances of 2019

From 'Slave Play' to 'True West,' these are TIME's picks for the best theater performances of the year

By Eben Shapiro

Playwright David Henry Hwang on Flipping a Flawed Musical on Its Head in Soft Power

The Tony-winning playwright on his new play, what to do with problematic classics and Asian-American representation

By Andrew R. Chow

Freestyle Love Supreme Is Lin-Manuel Miranda's Love Letter to Spontaneity

When Lin-Manuel Miranda was in rehearsals for his breakout theatrical production In the Heights, he—along with his cast and crew—would break up the grueling schedule by sneaking off and improvising, spitting bits of rhymes and...

By Rob LeDonne

The Most Anticipated Plays and Musicals of Fall 2019

From 'Jagged Little Pill' to 'The Rose Tattoo,' here are the most anticipated productions coming to Broadway this fall

By Eben Shapiro

In a New Broadway Play, Jake Gyllenhaal Attempts Something Radical: Normalcy

Jake Gyllenhaal is no stranger to playing strangers. He's Hollywood's go-to guy for delivering loners, slippery souls who aren't quite what they seem, dudes who are hiding something behind those hedgerow eyebrows, from the tortured...

By Belinda Luscombe

Backstage With the 'Moulin Rouge!' Musical's Costume Designer

Tony Award-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber took TIME behind the scenes

By Raisa Bruner , Anne Most and Lauren Bogholtz

Here's What to Know About the 'Cats' Musical and New Movie

Taylor Swift is Bombalurina

By Raisa Bruner

Jeff Daniels Plays a Hero on Broadway. He’s Still Waiting for One in the Real World

Nominated for a Tony for his performance of Atticus Finch, the actor talks 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in the age of Trump

By Karl Vick
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