19 stories by "Mara Reinstein"
Back when Joshua Boone was a drama student at Virginia Commonwealth University, he took a class called Intro to Drama. “We read 15 plays in all and there was no acting,” he explains. Tha…
Step back to the sweltering summer of 1972 in New York City. John Lindsay was the mayor. The Yankees and Mets were muddling through so-so seasons. Theatergoers lined up to see the thriller D…
Anna Zavelson thought she was giving herself a break when she signed on to Chinese Republicans. After all, the actress had just performed every night in Masquerade"the guided and immersive t…
Simu Liu is the kind of actor who prefers to step outside his comfort zone. For his breakout role in Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings in 2021, he trained extensively in mar…
Never mind that Halloween is long gone. Thanks to Bug, you can still scratch your itch for a deeply creepy psychological thriller that preys on paranoia. Set in a shabby motel room in Oklaho…
Here is Austin Colby's daily ritual: Roll out of bed, play with his dog, take a long walk, wake up his body, eat a good meal, ride the subway down to the Broadway Theatre...and then go on st…
There's a solid chance that the last time you had to think deeply about Oedipus Rex, you were sitting in 11th grade English class and trying to understand the symbolism behind the titular ch…
F. Murray Abraham is used to portraying real-life figures"after all, he won an Oscar for his performance as classical musician Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. Yet he says it's a unique experienc…
At the start of every performance of Liberation, Susannah Flood walks on stage with the house lights still up and delivers a funny monologue about the audience's phones (all locked in pouche…
Heads up: The new musical The Queen of Versailles is not about Marie Antoinette living it up in her opulent palace amid the French Revolution. It's actually a royally fascinating true tale"i…
Sure, the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown has been a hit ever since it opened in 2019. But Rebecca Naomi Jones, who just took over the role of Persephone earlier this month, has already…
How were your summer nights? Did you have a blast? Did it happen so fast? Tell me more, tell me more. But first, a dose of reality: Back-to-school season is here, which means you're either n…
Jinkx Monsoon had big plans to do absolutely nothing for the second half of the summer. After all, the talented two-time winner of RuPaul's Drag Race had already spent 2025 performing in her…
Life can be strange. Consider: Less than a decade after Burke Swanson first binged Netflix's sci-fi smash Stranger Things on the couch with his sister, he's on stage at the Marquis Theatre e…
Wait, can this be true? It's been a full decade since Taye Diggs last appeared on Broadway?! For what it's worth, he can't believe it either. "I spent so much time being excited to come back…
It's a game. It's a battlefield. It's a musical with, ahem, a checkered past. Yes, it's Chess"and it's coming to Broadway for the first time since 1988.
The revival, starring Aaron Tveit, L…
Some people collect baseball cards and stamps. Playwright Jamie Wax boasts that he collects people.
People's stories, that is.
"Ever since I was a little boy, odd and interesting people wo…
It's perfectly OK if you didn't line up in the bitter cold outside the Helen Hayes Theater this past winter to catch some of those early performances of Purpose. But now that the play has be…
"Splish Splash." "Mack the Knife." "Dream Lover." No doubt Bobby Darin's songs have been part of our cultural fabric for almost 70 years. But beyond the hits, Darin was a charismatic and ver…
