Theater
Vox’s coverage of stage shows, from massive Broadway productions to tiny shows at local theaters.
The president has always loved theater. It’s never loved him back.
The hit Broadway musical turns 10 this year. Does anyone think it’s cool anymore?
The theater world powerfully criticized the president’s first term. Now, he’s striking back.
The Great Gatsby is more than cocktail parties and color symbolism.
Updates and analysis on one of the most anticipated movies of the year.
What does Broadway look like after Sondheim? A lot like how it looked before.
Why concertgoers keep throwing things at celebrities and no one can shut up at the movies.
Once Upon a One More Time is a lumpy slurry of Britney Spears, Cinderella, and Betty Friedan. For some reason, it’s part of a bigger trend.
The HBO drama was at its best when its episodes acted like plays.
Parade deconstructs the multi-layered tragedy of the lynching of Leo Frank.
Samuel D. Hunter goes deeper with his vulnerable, personal play.
There are 3 things you need to be a great Fanny Brice. Lea Michele has 2 of them.
Your guide to the endlessly convoluted Broadway musical drama.
Anne Washburn, the playwright behind Mr. Burns, explains herself: “It’s about the comfort of looking again.”
With Suffs and Paradise Square, this season’s new musicals are reexamining the history books.
One of Sondheim’s most beloved shows appears on Broadway, now gender-swapped, just weeks after his death.
From Sweeney Todd to Company to Sunday in the Park with George, here’s what Stephen Sondheim meant to us.
A new revival from John Doyle lays bare the country’s dark fairground heart.
Jonathan Larson did Lin-Manuel Miranda the favor of making him fall in love with musicals. With Tick, Tick … Boom!, Miranda repays his debt.
The pandemic shut down the Great White Way for 19 months. Now it’s waking back up.
From Spencer to The Crown to Diana: The Musical, Princess Diana is all over our screens once more.
Six was supposed to open on Broadway in March 2020. On Sunday, it finally did.
The Public’s all-Black staging of Merry Wives is a giddy triumph.
The new film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway show relegated its Black Latinx community to the background and sparked a debate about colorism.
New film adaptations of the two hit musicals from very different eras are 2021’s fascinating cinematic call-and-response.
The tortured 22-year backstory of In the Heights, explained.
A mysterious, immersive theater show provides a fresh way to connect with far-flung friends.
What I learned from spending 2020 working, learning, and entertaining on the same screen.
Hamilton is an impossibly slippery text. The arguments over the show are part of what make it great.
The movie underlines what makes the musical radical.
The cult hit documentary for the cult hit musical is finally on a cult hit streaming platform.
How one song from Avenue Q kind of explains the tumult of the 21st century.
The Hamilton movie was slated to premiere in 2021. It just got moved up by 15 months.
Sondheim is the great bard of loneliness. These 12 songs from Sunday night’s concert show why.
The news comes 2 weeks after Broadway shut down its theaters in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
We can’t go to the theater together right now, so the 24 Hour Play Festival is going live on social instead.
The Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, and the New York Philharmonic also announced closures.
The new West Side Story is led by a brilliant cast. But its reinventions don’t always work.
Almost 300 years after the first woman played Hamlet, Ruth Negga takes on the melancholy Dane.