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Theater
Audra McDonald, Billy Porter and More Reunite for Shuffle Along
The 2016 Broadway cast reunites at Rose Theater Sept. 27 and 28 as part of Lincoln Center’s San Juan Hill festival.
Inside the Night Egg, Colette Gets to Tell the Story
The most intriguing new theater spaces often announce themselves by asking the audience to forget, briefly, what a theater is supposed to…
Cat Cohen Turns a Medical Crisis Into a Spotlight
Cat Cohen has built a comic persona around the conviction that the spotlight is not merely desirable but morally correct. That makes…
Jacob Ming-Trent Makes Shakespeare Personal
The title How Shakespeare Saved My Life sounds grand until Jacob Ming-Trent begins to make the claim literal. The actor and writer’s…
Stranger Things Keeps Its Monsters on Broadway
The most persuasive reason to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow has little to do with catching up on a franchise. It…
Rocky Horror Returns to the Room That Invented Reinvention
There may be no Broadway address better suited to The Rocky Horror Show than Studio 54. Richard O’Brien’s musical is a celebration…
Schmigadoon! Escapes Television and Lands on Broadway
The joke at the center of Schmigadoon! was always a theatrical joke. Two contemporary people wandered into a town governed by the…
The Lost Boys Finds a New Home Under the Palace Marquee
Few New York buildings understand reinvention as thoroughly as the Palace Theatre. The vaudeville shrine has survived movies, musicals, redevelopment and, most…
Broadway Turns Out the Lights for Paranormal Activity
Horror has always had a useful problem in the theater: the audience can see the edges. A movie can cut away, hide…
A Ghanaian Boarding School Comes to Broadway
The beauty pageant in Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play is ostensibly a competition, but the more consequential…
