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1,502 stories from The New Yorker

Patrick Ball’s Path to Broadway and “Becky Shaw” by Rachel Syme

Before “The Pitt,” the actor waited tables, made lattes, and schlepped Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe around town.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on April 27, 2026[SHARE]

"Dog Day Afternoon" on Broadway, Reviewed by Emily Nussbaum

Sidney Lumet's kinetic, emotionally complex film has been transformed into a hokey sitcom with gunshots.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on April 2, 2026[SHARE]

Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off by Helen Shaw

"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on June 13, 2025[SHARE]

How the Broadway Musical "Maybe Happy Ending" Creates Visual Magic

The scenic designer Dane Laffrey on the inspiration he found while travelling in Tokyo and the ideas that led to the groundbreaking set design of the Broadway musical, which stars Darren Cri…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on June 3, 2025[SHARE]

Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway - and Almost Everything Else by Michael Schulman

The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 2:33pm on May 26, 2025[SHARE]

Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests by Helen Shaw

The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch's "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes" and Jen Silverman's adaptation of "Creditors."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 3:23pm on May 25, 2025[SHARE]

Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana by Michael Schulman

The inveterate character actor discusses Don Quixote, his time as George Clooney's roommate, and his latest gig: m.c.ing John Mulaney's absurdist talk show.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:56am on May 11, 2025[SHARE]

Lena Dunham on Why She Broke Up with New York by Lena Dunham

Most people accept the city's chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 1:13pm on May 5, 2025[SHARE]

How "The Great Gatsby" Took Over High School by Alexander Manshel

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:44am on April 29, 2025[SHARE]

Jeremy Jordan Mines "Floyd Collins" for Its Sonic Gems by Helen Shaw

Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 1:54pm on April 28, 2025[SHARE]

The Show Can't Go On by Helen Shaw

Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 2:30pm on April 25, 2025[SHARE]

London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory by Helen Shaw

New productions of Shakespeare's "Richard II," Annie Ernaux's "The Years," Robert Icke's "Manhunt," Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie," and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:32am on April 17, 2025[SHARE]

Steve Martin on Marshall Brickman's "Who's Who in the Cast" by Steve Martin

From Brickman, I learned that satire can be friendly, even cheerful, and that anything was a suitable target.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:49am on April 13, 2025[SHARE]

The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center by Katy Waldman

Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 7:36am on April 8, 2025[SHARE]

The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting by Anna Russell

Dozens of audience members have lost consciousness watching Eline Arbo's adaptation of "The Years." The internet has come to believe that a conspiracy is afoot.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:05am on April 4, 2025[SHARE]

Retro Masculinity on Broadway, in "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" by Helen Shaw

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk try to close the deal in David Mamet's classic, and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:05am on April 4, 2025[SHARE]

The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem by Marina Harss, Sheldon Pearce, Jane Bua, Vince Aletti, Helen Shaw, Richard Brody, Inkoo Kang, Taran Dugal, Rachel Syme

Also: Rachel Syme on the latest in charms, the Chicago rapper Saba, turtle races in Bed-Stuy, Caspar David Friedrich paired with Schumann, and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:05am on April 4, 2025[SHARE]

The "Snow White" Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister by Jessica Winter

Placing the failure of the live-action remake largely at Rachel Zegler's feet is almost perversely flattering to her.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 7:13pm on April 1, 2025[SHARE]

When Marvel Meets "Much Ado About Nothing" by Anthony Lane

A splashy new production of the play may give a sense of where Shakespeare productions are heading.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:21pm on March 28, 2025[SHARE]

An Overpriced "Othello" Goes Splat on Broadway by Helen Shaw

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and "The Trojans," a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:32am on March 28, 2025[SHARE]

Critics at Large Live: The Right to Get It Wrong

The hundred-year history of The New Yorker includes reviews that anointed now classic works"as well as some that feel wildly out of step today. But is going against the grain such a bad thin…

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 9:43am on March 20, 2025[SHARE]

"Purpose" on Broadway and "Vanya" Downtown by Helen Shaw

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 9:42am on March 20, 2025[SHARE]

Updated Kennedy Center 2025 Schedule by Eddie Feldmann, Bill Scheft

​Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of "TheWiz""and more!

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 4:22pm on March 17, 2025[SHARE]

Sarah Snook's Wilde Adventure by Helen Shaw

The Australian actress, best known for her work on "Succession," brings all twenty-six characters in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to Broadway.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:20am on March 16, 2025[SHARE]

David Johansen's Debauched, Preening Brilliance by Amanda Petrusich

As the frontman of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:18am on March 4, 2025[SHARE]
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