He’s also still working through his childhood trauma. Considering his musical’s legacy, he sees a story about how “we prevail ultimately, by turning toward the light.”
Category: Theater
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The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
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Why ‘Uncle Vanya’ Is the Play for Our Anxious Era
Despite debuting 125 years ago, Anton Chekhov’s drama of claustrophobia, resentment and despair feels perfectly suited to present day America.
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Review: An Affair to Dismember, in the Gory Musical ‘Teeth’
A cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
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‘Illinoise,’ a Sufjan Stevens Dance Musical, Is Moving to Broadway
The production will make its transfer unusually fast, with an opening set for April 24, just 29 days after it wraps up a sold-out run at the Park Avenue Armory.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.