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Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the Broadway hit is the latest iteration of a quintessentially American form. Why has the musical endured"and where might it go next?
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven't seen since.
The actress stars as Rose in a Broadway revival of "Gypsy." She shares that, throughout her career, some people have been upset when she plays characters conceived for white actors.
Also: A trio of new book bars, Mariah Carey rings in the season, an Avett Brothers musical on Broadway, and more.
Also: A fresh "Elf" on Broadway, Michael Shannon and Tilda Swinton navigate "The End," the French hip-hop dance of Bintou Dembélé, and more.
"Shall we do a Frenemiesgiving?"
The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.
With a musical return to Oz and a bloody epic of ancient Rome, Hollywood studios double down on blockbuster spectacle.
George C. Wolfe finds inspiration for his production"starring Audra McDonald as Broadway's first Black Mama Rose"watching the pasties twirl at a burlesque show.
The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the performance artist Alina Troyano summon downtown's wild spirit, and Elevator Repair Service revives its signature hit.
Gold, a celebrated Shakespeare director, designed his theatre production for a young audience. "It's loud. I'm willing to hear the complaints, because I have risk tolerance," he said.
What's happening this season in art, music, theatre, dance, movies, and television.
In two piercing works, the National Bunraku Theatre's puppets"floating, airy creatures weighted by earthly human spirits"explore the clash between duty and passion.
Jamie Lloyd casts Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, and Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler play a Gen Z version of Shakespeare's famous lovers.
The artist's poignant paintings reproduce the photographs of strangers.
Kenneth Lonergan explores the emptiness of celebrity in "Hold On to Me Darling," while Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" proves as moving as ever.
In "Revelations" and other works, the choreographer created a home for Black dancers.
Jamie Lloyd, the very inked director of the new Broadway revival of "Sunset Boulevard," gets a new tattoo inspired by the show.
Also: Elizabeth Marvel and Amber Iman star in "The Ford/Hill Project," American Ballet Theatre dances Dostoyevsky, Hilton Als picks Lower East Side galleries, and more.
In Jez Butterworth's melancholy drama and David Henry Hwang's mischievously postmodern play, stardom is both a lure and a lie.
The artist captures the ephemeral and transformative power of light.
A Midwestern empty nester opens her home to a tough-talking New Yorker in Jen Silverman's sputtering star vehicle.
Jim Parsons, Katie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and the rest of the Broadway-revival cast meet up in Peterborough, New Hampshire, where Thornton Wilder wrote the original play.
The author reads his story from the September 23, 2024, issue of the magazine.
The author discusses his story "Autobahn."
