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Monday, May 26, 2025

Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else by Michael Schulman

The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince, her non-friendship with Audra McDonald, and sexy but dumb New York Rangers.

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests by Helen Shaw

The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch’s “Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes” and Jen Silverman’s adaptation of “Creditors.”

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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Richard Kind Is the Perfect Second Banana by Michael Schulman

The inveterate character actor discusses Don Quixote, his time as George Clooney’s roommate, and his latest gig: m.c.ing John Mulaney’s absurdist talk show.

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Monday, May 5, 2025

Lena Dunham on Why She Broke Up with New York by Lena Dunham

Most people accept the city’s chaos as a toll for an expansive life. It took me several decades to realize that I could go my own way.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School by Alexander Manshel

The classroom staple turns a hundred.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Jeremy Jordan Mines “Floyd Collins” for Its Sonic Gems by Helen Shaw

Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.

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Friday, April 25, 2025

The Show Can’t Go On by Helen Shaw

Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.

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Thursday, April 17, 2025

London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory by Helen Shaw

New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie,” and more.

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Sunday, April 13, 2025

Steve Martin on Marshall Brickman’s “Who’s Who in the Cast” by Steve Martin

From Brickman, I learned that satire can be friendly, even cheerful, and that anything was a suitable target.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

The Trump Show Comes to the Kennedy Center by Katy Waldman

Can the fifty-four-year-old arts hub weather the next four years?

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Friday, April 4, 2025

The Play Where Everyone Keeps Fainting by Anna Russell

Dozens of audience members have lost consciousness watching Eline Arbo’s adaptation of “The Years.” The internet has come to believe that a conspiracy is afoot.

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Retro Masculinity on Broadway, in “Glengarry Glen Ross” and “Good Night, and Good Luck” by Helen Shaw

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk try to close the deal in David Mamet’s classic, and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage.

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The Evolution of Dance Theatre of Harlem by Marina Harss, Sheldon Pearce, Jane Bua, Vince Aletti, Helen Shaw, Richard Brody, Inkoo Kang, Taran Dugal, Rachel Syme

Also: Rachel Syme on the latest in charms, the Chicago rapper Saba, turtle races in Bed-Stuy, Caspar David Friedrich paired with Schumann, and more.

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The “Snow White” Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister by Jessica Winter

Placing the failure of the live-action remake largely at Rachel Zegler’s feet is almost perversely flattering to her.

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Friday, March 28, 2025

When Marvel Meets “Much Ado About Nothing” by Anthony Lane

A splashy new production of the play may give a sense of where Shakespeare productions are heading.

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An Overpriced “Othello” Goes Splat on Broadway by Helen Shaw

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and “The Trojans,” a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Critics at Large Live: The Right to Get It Wrong

The hundred-year history of The New Yorker includes reviews that anointed now classic works—as well as some that feel wildly out of step today. But is going against the grain such a bad th…

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“Purpose” on Broadway and “Vanya” Downtown by Helen Shaw

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

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Monday, March 17, 2025

Updated Kennedy Center 2025 Schedule by Eddie Feldmann, Bill Scheft

​Big Balls: The TED Talk; Gay-Conversion Band Camp; an all-Nordic version of “TheWiz”—and more!

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Sunday, March 16, 2025

Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure by Helen Shaw

The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025

David Johansen’s Debauched, Preening Brilliance by Amanda Petrusich

As the frontman of the New York Dolls, Johansen was instrumental in the genesis of punk in the nineteen-seventies. His solo work was equally audacious.

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Friday, February 28, 2025

Alan Cumming on “The Traitors” and His Brush with Reality Television

The actor talks with Emily Nussbaum about his role on “The Traitors,” why he had always been “judgy” toward reality shows, and the perils of fame.

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2025 Spring Culture Preview by Shauna Lyon, Sheldon Pearce, Helen Shaw, Jackson Arn, Marina Harss, Fergus McIntosh, Inkoo Kang, Richard Brody

What’s happening this season in music, theatre, art, dance, movies, and television.

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The playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard Try to Go Home Again by Helen Shaw

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

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Monday, February 24, 2025

An 1887 Opera by a Black Composer Finally Surfaces by Alex Ross

Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane” shows how diversity initiatives can promote works of real cultural value.

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Before He Formed Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page Played a Prom in Ohio by David Owen

A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.

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Thursday, February 20, 2025

The Theatrical Release of “Compensation” Is Cause for Celebration by Richard Brody

Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 feature, a century-spanning vision of two deaf Black women in Chicago, is among the greatest independent films but has rarely been screened.

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Monday, February 10, 2025

Kendrick Lamar and the Messy Art of Meta-Performance by Doreen St. Félix

The best word to describe the rapper’s Super Bowl halftime show is “existential.”

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Sunday, February 2, 2025

“My Friend Pinocchio,” by David Rabe by David Rabe

It was hard not to feel that Kenny and I were making our way together, that with his help I’d arrived at a special place in the hierarchy of worldly things.

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David Rabe on the Mystery of Friendship by Deborah Treisman

The author discusses his story “My Friend Pinocchio.”

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David Rabe Reads “My Friend Pinocchio”

The author reads his story from the February 10, 2025, issue of the magazine.

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