Category: Theater

By Day, He’s a Recruiter at LVMH. At Night, He Portrays Anna Wintour.

In a trio of shows about prominent women in media, Ryan Raftery portrays the Vogue editor, as well as Martha Stewart and Kris Jenner.
How Ingrid Michaelson Made ‘The Notebook’ Into a Musical

Family history is “wrapped up in these songs,” said the singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson, who is making the leap to Broadway with an adaptation of the popular romance novel.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to Lead Broadway ‘Othello’

Kenny Leon will direct a starry revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the spring of 2025.
Bringing ‘Teeth,’ a Feminist Awakening With a Lethal Bite, to the Stage

Michael R. Jackson is helping adapt the darkly comic horror film into a musical. But can a show about a teenager with vagina dentata sing?
Cast Album Roundup: ‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Parade,’ ‘Camelot’ and More

Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Set for Broadway

“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It

This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.
Parents Outraged After Willy Wonka Event in Glasgow

Families traveled to Glasgow for an event that claimed to channel the magic of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” They got a couple of jelly beans.
In ‘The Effect,’ Investigating Love and Other Drugs

Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play, starring Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell, heads to the Shed after a celebrated run at the National Theater, in London.
‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway

Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
Reviving ‘The Wiz’ Through ‘the Blackest of Black Lenses’

The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.
‘A Sign of the Times’ Review: A Confused 1960s New York

A jukebox musical about a Midwesterner’s big dreams is heavy on the Petula Clark.