Theater
Vox’s coverage of stage shows, from massive Broadway productions to tiny shows at local theaters.
The new Alanis Morissette show is the most ambitious jukebox musical yet, for better or for worse.
The Pulitzer-winning playwright’s latest, Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, returns to his themes of grace, fear, and the possibility of redemption.
Cats is a case study in how not to adapt a musical.
These days, we roll our eyes at Cats. But from the moment it opened, it was a smash.
Slave Play is a challenging theatergoing experience, no matter your race.
Jack Thorne explains what it’s like to adapt Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, and The Secret Garden.
The new song Swift wrote with Andrew Lloyd Webber has a lot to teach us about cats, “Memory,” and fangirls.
When the dawn comes, the new Cats trailer will be a memory, too, and a new day will begin.
Playwright Will Arbery says he isn’t interested in “diagnosing” his characters.
Hal Prince’s Broadway legacy includes Cabaret, Phantom, and an iconic partnership with Sondheim.
Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, and Idris Elba play anthropomorphic felines in this bizarre, straight-faced adaptation of the iconic ’80s musical.
Dido and Aeneas at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is one of a flood of operas staged in non-traditional locations.
This isn’t like your high school production. It’s much darker.
How Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre ballet spotlights Jane’s love affair with herself.
At least representation was a big winner.
The hit Broadway musical is up for 4 major acting awards, among 10 other nominations.
Hell is a factory town in Broadway’s terrific new Hadestown.
Heidi Schreck’s new Broadway play makes the personal political — and makes government fun again.
The new Broadway production gambles on a turbulent Trump allegory. It doesn’t always work.
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s drama is brilliant — and unsettling.
Rosdely Ciprian and Thursday Williams talk about the Broadway hit What the Constitution Means to Me, and what Congress could learn from them.
More than a dozen women accused Trump of sexual misconduct. A new production shows the aftermath.
A group of scientists studied the mind-blowing effects of Cirque du Soleil shows. Here’s what they learned.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Christopher Jackson reprise their roles, along with the original Schuyler Sisters.
The antebellum South gets drawn painfully into the present in this daring and ferocious look at how racism warps intimacy.
The Olivier-winning play from Jez Butterworth juggles 21 actors, a baby, and a goose — with a dark strain of Irish nationalism.
The original Glinda shows us why she is the eternal HBIC of Shiz University.
“This thing is not designed for you to win”: Heidi Schreck talks about turning personal history into a play about the founding documents.
The universal teen angst of Joe Iconis’s Be More Chill, in one song.
Gettin’ the Band Back Together is a giant musical comedy dad joke. To hate it is to hate joy.
Neil Simon’s humor made him endearing; his warmth made him enduring.
Leonard Bernstein gave American music so much more than West Side Story.
This Pretty Woman is best when it stops painstakingly recreating its predecessor and lets the magic of theater take over. Alas, it doesn’t do that enough.
It’s Broadway’s biggest night
The theater kids of Parkland performed Rent’s “Seasons of Love” at the 2018 Tonys.
At this year’s Tonys, winners included angels and Stephen Sondheim. Losers included baby goats.
From Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to Angels in America.
See the full list of 2018 Tony Awards winners.
The ghost of Trump is always next to Roy Cohn in the new production of Angels in America.
The biggest night in Broadway airs this Sunday on CBS.