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Fifteen new productions will open on Broadway in the month of April, that's one every other day.
His Oscar frontrunner status seems richly deserved.
The 90-minute drama charts Moy's journey in America from hopeful teen to jaded adult, a progression shadowed by American attitudes toward Chinese immigrants"ranging from Orientalist condesce…
I know I am really good at what I do, and now I can't wait to prove that I'm not just a pawn for the creative team, I deserve to be where I am.Â
Some associates were making less than minimum wage and had no healthcare, while others had benefits and made three thousand dollars a week.
Cross-cultural tension looms over Sanaz Toossi's English, an understated classroom dramedy about the things we lose in crossing linguistic borders.Â
This is the kind of corn that never grows stale.
In the revival of Sonheim's 'Company,' Doyle shines with his rendition of the complicated 'Getting Married Today.'
Wagner's message is a simple but deeply humanistic one: We're all specks in the universe, random, unknowable bio-containers, and who knows where my atoms end and yours begin?
Frey told Observer, "The labor movement was becoming hot, so to speak, and members were really getting activated and needed a way to organize and funnel that energy."
"It's a lesson in humanity and connection," Tom Kitt tells Observer. Kitt, a Tony, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer (Flying Over Sunset, Jagged Little Pill) credits Sondheim with i…
Broadway has been roiled by controversy following contentious remarks made by Charlotte St. Martin, President of The Broadway League.
Gooen describes the Omicron spike coming with a new set of restrictions for Broadway, with increased vigilance during "mask up shifts" and some theaters now requiring PCR testing and vaccine…
It's better than 'Mrs. Doubtfire', but you will not be singing these tunes as you walk home from the theater " unless you love to rhyme "penis" and "Venus" or "smelly" and "Botticelli."
One thing I am certain of: 'Company' is the most sophisticated fun I've had in a theater in ages.
It's a downbeat fable about escaping the toxic narcissists who created your body.
It's a patriarchal pangender fantasy that simultaneously de-centers and re-centers cishetero masculinity. Fancy lingo for: kinda outdated and icky.
He will continue to shape the future of musical theater because he trained our ears, set the bar high, and new composers and lyricists will study his work. For a hundred who try, misguidedly…
You absolutely must see it if you care about Black work on Broadway, American theater, and the evolving state of our "canon."
Who knows if musical fiascos such as 'Diana' exist solely for the bitter amusement of theater critics?
Old-fashioned in the best way, 'Morning's at Seven' is about the sense of isolation and failure that hides beneath the surface.
I can't be the only Sondheim nerd sick of respectful, minimalist approaches.
Embracing absurd and cringe humor while bringing it to theater, 'While You Were Partying' is for theater lovers who grew up online.
Its respectful treatment of the material may be the fallout of a theater troupe meeting their spiritual maker.
I'm not actually 100% sure we are worthy of this show, but we need its complexity and density.
