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Oh God, A Show About Abortion Could Not Be More Relevant

 Alison Leiby’s one-woman show doesn’t have the spark it needs — so it’s handy that its audience is already on fire.By Helen Shaw
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for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant Revival

 The dance-theater gem still glows.By Helen Shaw
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American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author Issue

 It’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite.By Helen Shaw
  1. theater review
    A Cherry Orchard That Chops Down Most of the TreesChucking out the familiar in search of the truth.
    ByHelen Shaw
  2. walk off
    Jesse Williams Is ‘Not Really Worrying’ About Leaked Take Me Out VideoThe Broadway show is upping security after nude footage of Jesse Williams went viral.
    ByAlejandra Gularte
  3. a doctor in the house
    Doctor From TV Surprises Girl From the North Country With Special PerformancesAnthony Edwards made his Broadway debut as Dr. Walker.
    ByAlejandra Gularte
  4. rip
    Bruce MacVittie, New York Theater Mainstay, Dead at 65MacVittie got his big break playing opposite Al Pacino in American Buffalo.
    ByBethy Squires
  5. it’s quiet ain’t no back talk
    Who Dares Talk Back to Patti LuPone at a Patti LuPone Talk-back?“Chris Harper pays my salary!”
    ByRebecca Alter
  7. stage whisperer
    The Winners and Rained-on Parades of This Year’s Tony NomineesCongrats to A Strange Loop!
    ByJackson McHenry
  8. theater review
    Straight Line Crazy Gives Us Robert Moses Without the FireA very talky, very static play.
    ByChristopher Bonanos
  9. theater review
    Which Way to the Stage Takes a Superfan’s View of the WorldEmbodied by two characters on the far fringes of theatrical success.
    ByHelen Shaw
  10. theater review
    Oh God, A Show About Abortion Could Not Be More RelevantAlison Leiby’s one-woman show doesn’t have the spark it needs — so it’s handy that its audience is already on fire.
    ByHelen Shaw
  11. live! más
    Taco Bell Wrangles Dolly Parton and Doja Cat Into Doing a TikTok MusicalNo more spon-con. Comes the day you say, “What for?” Please, no more.
    ByRebecca Alter
  12. tonys 2022
    A Strange Loop Leads 2022 Tony Awards Nominations With 11MJ, Paradise Square, Company, and The Lehman Trilogy are among the top nominees.
    ByJustin Curto
  13. theater review
    Alice Childress’s Wedding Band Returns, Well-BurnishedChildress’s bitter play, now married to a modern sensibility, returns on a wave of acclaim.
    ByHelen Shaw
  14. monarchism
    Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lin-Manuel Miranda Are CollabingTheir latest controversial muse? Queen Elizabeth II.
    ByBethy Squires
  15. tony awards 2022
    West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose Will Host the 2022 Tony AwardsGive us dance numbers!
    ByJackson McHenry
  16. dinosaurs
    Paleontology! at the Vivian BeaumontPuppet designer James Ortiz on The Skin of Our Teeth’s big creatures.
    ByJackson McHenry
  17. theater review
    Two Men, Twin Falls: Samuel Hunter’s A Case for the Existence of GodSamuel D. Hunter’s play about male friendship, latter-day American desperation, and the passage of time.
    ByHelen Shaw
  18. are u coming?
    Michael R. Jackson Doesn’t Really Care How You React to A Strange LoopBut he’d love Tucker Carlson to come see it.
    ByBrock Colyar
  19. theater review
    Something Distanced This Way Comes: Craig and Negga in MacbethCelebrity squares off against experiment, from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane.
    ByHelen Shaw
  20. theater review
    POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night Mine Laughs From Behind the ScenesTwo comedies about the business of image-making.
    ByHelen Shaw
  21. the word of her body
    Lea Michele Is the Guilty One (of Oversharing About Jonathan Groff)On occasion of HBO’s Spring Awakening doc, Those You’ve Known.
    ByJustin Curto
  22. theater review
    A Strange Loop Moves to Broadway, Its Furious Energy Changed But IntactMichael R. Jackson’s metamusical masterpiece spins forward.
    ByHelen Shaw
  23. eleka namen namen
    After Years of Not Making a Wicked Movie, They Now Want TwoWhy couldn’t they stay calm for once instead of flying off the handle?
    ByJackson McHenry
  24. theater review
    The Skin of Our Teeth Is No DinosaurSure, some of the humor is dated. But that third act is anything but.
    ByHelen Shaw
  25. theater review
    If Someone Takes a Spill: Funny Girl ReturnsBeanie Feldstein takes the titular role.
    ByHelen Shaw
  26. tony awards
    The Tonys Delay Nomination Announcements Due to Broadway ‘Challenges’Could this be the curse of M*cbeth?
    ByAshley Shannon Wu
  27. theater review
    In Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, Cruelty Provides the MuseIn this tale of an executioner in 1960s England, a master of the mean joke turns laughs against the viewer.
    ByHelen Shaw
  28. rip
    Robert Morse, Mad Men and Broadway Star, Dead at 90“The moon belongs to everyone.”
    ByAshley Shannon Wu
  29. theater review
    for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant RevivalThe dance-theater gem still glows.
    ByHelen Shaw
  30. theater review
    The Predatory Dance of How I Learned to DrivePaula Vogel’s play still manages to make the unbearable watchable — thanks in part to Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse.
    ByHelen Shaw
  31. theater review
    The Minutes on Broadway Feels a Few Years Too LateThere was a time when Tracy Letts’s play, about a city council with a secret, felt prescient. But real life has outstripped its satire.
    ByHelen Shaw
  32. castings
    Grammy Winner Jon Batiste Makes Acting Debut in Color Purple FilmThe Album of the Year winner joins Ciara, H.E.R. , and Halle Bailey.
    ByJustin Curto
  33. understudies
    All Right, Which One of You Said ‘Macbeth’ in This Theater?Broadway director Sam Gold filled in onstage with a hand mic for actors out with the ’rona.
    ByRebecca Alter
  34. theater review
    American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author IssueIt’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite.
    ByHelen Shaw
  35. theater review
    No Nose, Yes Delts: James McAvoy Is Our Generation’s Great CyranoYou will not (and I cannot) get over this performance.
    ByHelen Shaw
  36. life in pictures
    Sexy CyranoBehind the scenes at BAM with James McAvoy as he brings a smoldering version of de Bergerac Stateside.
    Photographs byPari Dukovic
  37. theater review
    The Little Prince Crash-lands on This PlanetNon.
    ByHelen Shaw
  38. last night on late night
    We Almost Got a Version of Funny Girl Starring Sandra BernhardIt would have been the titular role.
    ByBethy Squires
  39. theater review
    Birthday Candles, With Debra Messing, Is Not Much of a PartyThere’s too much sugar in that cake she bakes.
    ByHelen Shaw
  40. announcements
    Introducing Stage Whisperer, a New Theater NewsletterWeekly theater news, delivered a little louder for the people in the back.
    ByJackson McHenry
  41. theater review
    Suffs Casts a Complicated Vote for a Complicated HistoryVotes for women, soberly musicalized.
    ByHelen Shaw
  42. theater review
    Does Take Me Out Still Hit the Strike Zone?Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about a gay baseball superstar returns.
    ByHelen Shaw
  43. theater review
    The Multiple Original Sins of Paradise SquareOver-workshopped and yet still under-theatricalized.
    ByHelen Shaw
  44. theater review
    Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things Sings the Universe ElectricA hymn to the elemental life cycle.
    ByHelen Shaw
  45. theater review
    Plaza Suite Contains the Bleakest Comedy I’ve Seen in YearsParker and Broderick drown the pangs of middle age in room-service Champagne.
    ByHelen Shaw
  46. oral history
    How Blue Man Group Blew UpAn oral history of the wildly successful show, starring strange bald men painted in Yves Klein blue.
    ByMolly Langmuir
  47. theater review
    Confederates Does Battle With Two Peculiar InstitutionsToggling between the antebellum south and the academy today.
    ByHelen Shaw
  48. theater review
    Help Is an Essay Dressed Up As a PlayProfessor Claudia Rankine looks for America’s soul in its airports.
    ByHelen Shaw
  49. from the screen to the stage
    CODA Is Being Adapted Into a Stage MusicalIt’s theater’s illusions I recall.
    ByBethy Squires
  50. rip
    Ukrainian Actress Oksana Shvets Killed in Russian Rocket AttackThe highly honored stage and screen performer was 67.
    ByJennifer Zhan
  51. theater review
    What’s Off-Off: From William F. Buckley to Unmarked GravesReviewed: A Song of Songs,Man Cave,Hart Island, and Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley.
    ByHelen Shaw
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