In Shakespeare, music is an integral part of the action. But the First Folio, which turns 400 this year, failed to transmit how it should sound.
Category: Theater
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‘The Who’s Tommy’ Will Return to Broadway This Spring
An acclaimed revival of the musical plans to open in March at the Nederlander Theater.
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‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic
This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
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Steven Lutvak, Whose Darkly Comic Show Won a Tony, Dies at 64
He wrote several musicals without attracting much notice. Then he struck Broadway gold with “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder.”
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‘Stereophonic’ Finds Drama in a ’70s Rock Recording Booth
The playwright David Adjmi explores the in-studio creation process in a play with new songs by the former Arcade Fire member Will Butler.
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Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ and Its Insight Into Grief, Family and Gender
For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.
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Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond? Yes, There’s a Connection.
It’s been cathartic to “create art from places of torment,” the singer-actor said ahead of the opening of “Sunset Boulevard” in London.
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Introducing Nathan Lane, the Hip New Face of A24
With roles in “Dicks: The Musical” and “Beau Is Afraid,” the stage star is now a repertory player for the hot film company. “Who would have guessed?” he says.
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Alicia Keys Steps Into a New Spotlight
“Hell’s Kitchen,” a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter’s teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
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‘Melissa Etheridge: My Window’ Review: Musings on Life and Music
On Broadway, this rock concert spliced with memoir has gained a striking intimacy.
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Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken
The actor conveyed the gravitational force of mortality, tugging the men he played so commandingly toward a void beyond meaning, our critic writes.
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Michael Gambon, Dumbledore in the ‘Harry Potter’ Films, Dies at 82
After he made his mark in London in the 1970s, he went on to play a wide range of roles, including Edward VII, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.