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Theater
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
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Post-pandemic hiatus, 'The Lehman Trilogy,' like its audience, is more conscious of the ethical considerations that shape businesses past and present
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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
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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
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The Best Broadway Shows to Stream at Home
From buzzy box office phenomena to poignant and personal plays
By Annabel Gutterman
November 19, 2020
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
July 6, 2020
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
June 9, 2020
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
March 6, 2020
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
December 1, 2019
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
October 25, 2019
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
October 2, 2019
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
August 30, 2019
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
August 8, 2019
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
July 24, 2019
Here's What to Know About the 'Cats' Musical and New Movie
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By Raisa Bruner
July 18, 2019
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
May 22, 2019
Donald Trump Now Has His Own Chinese Opera
Hong Kong director Li Kui-ming hopes to lure new audiences with the comedic
Trump on Show
By Hillary Leung / Hong Kong , Abhishyant Kidangoor and Aria Chen
April 12, 2019
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on Engaging With Her Audience: ‘The Spoon-Feeding Times Are Over’
Her new play 'White Noise' explores power and privilege
By Andrew R. Chow
April 3, 2019
Be More Chill
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At first, it seemed as if the current Broadway phenomenon Be More Chill was going to be condemned to regional-theater status. "We only had a four-week limited engagement in New Jersey," says music and lyrics...
By Rob LeDonne
March 21, 2019
The 10 Best Plays and Musicals of 2018
From 'The Ferryman' to 'Oklahoma'
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November 20, 2018
Suzan-Lori Parks Remembers Ntozake Shange's "Range of Ferocity"
Playwright of power
By Suzan-Lori Parks
November 1, 2018
What Shakespeare’s Wife Could Tell Us
This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. A version of the article below was originally published at HNN. Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway could...
By Katherine West Scheil / History News Network
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Frozen
on Broadway Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands
"Not at our show!"
By Megan McCluskey
September 6, 2018
J.K. Simmons Remembers the Humanity of Neil Simon’s Humor
It remains one of the top memories of my career that at my audition for Laughter on the 23rd Floor, I elicited belly laughs from Neil Simon himself. And when I got the phone call...
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September 6, 2018
Privilege Takes Center Stage in Broadway’s
Straight White Men
Straight White Men is distinguished by several notable firsts. It's the first Broadway play written by an Asian-American woman. (What took so long?) It's heartthrob Armie Hammer's Broadway debut. (More please.) And it likely marks...
By Eben Shapiro
July 26, 2018
This Play Puts the Fight Against Extremism Onstage
"Culture is the only weapon," says Belgian playwright Ismael Saidi, author of "Jihad"
By Vivienne Walt/Paris
June 14, 2018
These Handwritten Notes Came From John Wilkes Booth. Here’s How They’re Helping a Modern Theater Company
"We almost certainly would not have this promptbook had its owner not been so morbidly interesting"
By Beth Burns / Harry Ransom Center
June 11, 2018
Everyone Had the Same Joke About 'Mean Girls' At the Tonys
"None for you, Mean Girls"
By Raisa Bruner
June 11, 2018
Meet the Parkland Teacher Behind That Emotional Performance at the Tony Awards
There was not a dry eye in the theater during the Parkland students' performance
By Jennifer Calfas
June 10, 2018
Jim Parsons Is So Much More Than Sheldon
Jim Parsons can’t catch a break. He’s made it to New York City, where he’s speaking in Gramercy Park, a small urban oasis near his apartment, and there’s not a cloud in the sky. (He...
By Daniel D'Addario
May 23, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage on Her New Play, the Browning of America and Animal Rights
The Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright on her new production, the browning of America and why she isn't a journalist You wrote your first play when you were 8 years old. What was it about? It probably...
By Eben Shapiro
May 17, 2018
Jeremy Irons on Eugene O'Neill, Forgetting Lines Onstage and His Favorite Villain to Play
Taking into account tone, speed and intonation, a 2008 British study found that the actor Jeremy Irons has close to the ideal voice. Apparently, he speaks at an optimally pleasing 200 words per minute and...
By Eben Shapiro
May 14, 2018
Inside the Art Studio That Brings Broadway Shows to Life
See how the set of Carousel was created
By Eben Shapiro and Julia Lull
May 10, 2018
The 2018 Tony Nominations Are Here. See the Complete List of Nominees
Mean Girls and Spongebob Squarepants, both powerhouses in film and television, are now forces to be reckoned with at the 2018 Tony Awards. The two new musicals led the pack for the 72nd Annual Tony...
By Jennifer Calfas
May 1, 2018
Actor and Former Parliamentarian Glenda Jackson on Theater and Women in Politics
The two-time Oscar winner and former British parliamentarian is back on Broadway in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women You acted for 35 years and won two Oscars, and then you spent 23 years in the...
By Belinda Luscombe
April 5, 2018
New Musical
Miss You Like Hell
Puts a Human Face on the Looming Specter of Deportation
As a little girl, Quiara Alegría Hudes would accompany her mother to a women's health clinic she ran in North Philly. There, she would watch her mother help women in the heavily Latinx community navigate...
By Eben Shapiro
March 29, 2018
The Surprising Broadway Musical That Provided the Soundtrack to a Real-Life Royal Romance
'People Will Say We're In Love' is still one of Queen Elizabeth's favorite songs
By Flora Carr
March 13, 2018
How 'Angels in America' First Reminded the World That 'Plays Can Matter'
Revisiting TIME's original reviews of the influential production
By Lily Rothman
February 23, 2018
Eve Ensler: Men Need to Join the Fight to End Violence Against Women
The Vagina Monologues playwright discusses fight for gender equality
By TIME Video
February 15, 2018
Domestic Helpers Are the Subject of a New Opera,
Mila
Conceived by award-winning playwright Candace Chong, with music by Eli Marshall, the Hong Kong production is a first of its kind
By Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong
January 23, 2018
Nathan Lane on Humanizing a Complicated Villain in
Angels in America
The Broadway revival opens March 25 and also stars Andrew Garfield
By Daniel D'Addario
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The Top 10 Plays and Musicals of 2017
A number of the best productions celebrate man’s shared humanity
By Eben Shapiro
December 6, 2017
Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers
'My voice is something special'
By Casey Quackenbush
October 24, 2017
Watch Country Star Jennifer Nettles Reinterpret
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The country star made an appearance on the musical's popular video series
By Dave Quinn / People
September 13, 2017
Ed Skrein Proved Actors Can Resist Whitewashing, Too
Daniel York writes on actors of color: 'We just want a level playing field'
By Daniel York
September 1, 2017
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Frozen
Musical in Costume
It arrives on Broadway in February 2018
By Mark Snetiker / Entertainment Weekly
August 17, 2017
Aging Fairies Take the Stage in Shakespeare in the Park's
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For all of the attempts to modernize Shakespeare – hail Trump as Caesar – some aspects of the Bard’s productions appear set in stone. Such is the case with the mischievous fairies of A Midsummer...
By Eben Shapiro
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