Sunday, October 26, 2025

Mandy Moore Feels at Home Making Dances for Taylor Swift or the Met Opera by Margaret Fuhrer

The choreographer Mandy Moore feels at home everywhere. She even sees herself as a kind of dance therapist. “Teach them the love first and the steps later.”

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

Arian Moayed Would Rather Be Backstage by Sarah Bahr

It is “the actual reason all of us crazy folks go back to the theater,” said the actor, who has joined the Season 2 cast of “Nobody Wants This.”

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When Hollywood Tries to Depict Broadway Genius, the Results Rarely Sing by Jesse Green

The new Lorenz Hart biopic “Blue Moon” gets a lot right about the creation of musicals that a spate of 1940s films got wildly wrong.

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Friday, October 24, 2025

‘Slam Frank,’ a Daring Satire, and ‘Crooked Cross’ Demand Our Attention by Laura Collins-Hughes

A gleefully provocative new musical and a quiet 1930s domestic drama speak to each other across time, resounding quite loudly in our present.

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Review: In ‘Six Quiet Dogs,’ Ordinary Sound Gives Way to Poetry by Brian Seibert

Abigail Levine’s new work, at Target Margin Theater, is terrific as a kind of enhanced reading, but lags on the level of choreography.

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Tom Morello Brings Rage to an Unexpected Genre: the Musical by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This firebrand guitarist pulled songs from his lesser-known catalog for “Revolution(s),” about family of activists, now playing in Chicago.

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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Mark Morris Accused in Lawsuit of Mistreating Black Company Members by Julia Jacobs

A former dancer with the company accused Mr. Morris, the prominent choreographer, of discrimination. He denied the claims.

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Oprah, Gayle King and More Attend Misty Copeland’s Final Performance by Sarah Bahr and Nina Westervelt

The trailblazing ballerina returned to the stage after five years for one final performance at a gala for American Ballet Theater.

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Broadway Averts Strike as Musicians Reach Deal With Producers, Union Says by Michael Paulson

The tentative agreement, which still requires ratification by union members, comes five days after a similar agreement with actors and stage managers.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Samantha Eggar, Oscar-Nominated Star of ‘The Collector,’ Dies at 86 by Richard Sandomir

She also had leading roles in “Doctor Dolittle” with Rex Harrison, “Walk, Don’t Run” with Cary Grant and “The Molly Maguires” with Sean Connery.

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Misty Copeland’s Career in Photos by Aimee Ortiz

The famed ballerina retires from her career with the American Ballet Theater after one final performance on Wednesday night.

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Dance Review: Eiko Otake and Wen Hui’s Bodily Traces of War by Brian Seibert

In “What Is War,” two singular artists, Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, grapple with memories of China and Japan in World War II.

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‘Blue Cowboy’ Review: A Surprising Love Rides Into Town by Elisabeth Vincentelli

David Cale’s astonishing one-man show in Brooklyn erects some familiar signposts before swerving into the unexpected.

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‘Bull Durham’ Review: This Musical Version Is a Bunt by Laura Collins-Hughes

Adapted for the stage, the baseball rom-com is now less sexy and sophisticated than the ’80s classic.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

‘Paranormal Activity’ Wants to Scare You From the Stage by Elisabeth Vincentelli and Evan Jenkins

Like “Stranger Things” and “Harry Potter,” this horror film franchise is branching out with an original story that aims to pull the rug from under theatergoers.

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A Dance in a SoHo Loft With the Ghosts Who Haunt It by Gia Kourlas

The choreographer Wally Cardona revisits a David Gordon duet, “Times Four,” performed in the loft in which it was made and remade for today.

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Monday, October 20, 2025

Ari Emanuel Buys TodayTix, Gaining Footing on Broadway and West End by Michael Paulson

The ticketing company is already a significant player in the two big theater markets of New York and London.

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Debut of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ Musical in Minneapolis Draws Fans by Jeff Ernst

There was a flourish of purple at the State Theater for the debut of a new musical adaptation of the performer’s 1984 movie in his hometown in Minnesota.

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Charm La’Donna Is a Hip-Hop Choreographer to Stars Like Kendrick Lamar by Margaret Fuhrer and Michelle Groskopf

The hip-hop choreographer brings irrepressible enthusiasm to her work for Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé and Dua Lipa.

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Sunday, October 19, 2025

‘Larsen C’ Review: Grand, Dark and Inhumanly Cold by Brian Seibert

At the new Powerhouse: International festival in Brooklyn, Christos Papadopoulos debuted an oblique, glacially cool work with seven dancers.

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Broadway Actors Reach Deal, but Musicians Still Threaten Strike by Michael Paulson

The Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association reached a tentative agreement early Saturday. Union members must decide whether to ratify it.

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Review: At Ballet Theater, Tharp Comes to Push and Conquer by Brian Seibert

American Ballet Theater opened its season with an all-Twyla Tharp program, featuring her first dance for the company, “Push Comes to Shove,” and the for-the-ages “Bach Partita.”

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream by Laura Collins-Hughes

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.

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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark by Laura Collins-Hughes

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

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Her Play Pulls on the Fashion Industry’s Threads by Laura Cappelle

The French theater maker Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings unheard voices to the stage, like the real and imagined garment workers in her latest work, “Lacrima.”

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Aubrey Plaza Shines in Ethan Coen’s Retrograde ‘Let’s Love!’ by Juan A. Ramírez

It’s unusual for an Atlantic Theater Company production to feel so uninspired, but in this set of one-acts, committed actors are let down by juvenile language.

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The Limón Dance Company Tries to Shake Up Its Fusty Image by Brian Seibert

The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined “Emperor Jones.”

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In ‘Other,’ Ari’el Stachel Confronts His Identity Issues by Robin Pogrebin

In his solo Off Broadway show “Other,” Ari’el Stachel explores the anxiety that has exacerbated his struggles with being an Arab Jew.

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George Clooney in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ and More Theater to Stream by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This month’s picks include Clooney’s Broadway run as the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and an audio play starring Hugh Jackman.

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Fall at City Ballet: Promotions, Debuts and Transcendent Dancing by Gia Kourlas

The programs were all over the map, but the dancers held the season together. Six were promoted, including India Bradley, the first Black female to become a soloist.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Jen Tullock Multitasks in ‘Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The “Severance” actor portrays all the roles in a play she wrote with Frank Winters, inspired by her evangelical upbringing.

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