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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.

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.

The Queer Kids Are All Right. And Now They’re Making Me Better.

How watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past — and still scarred by a less welcoming world.

Chita Rivera, Finding Her Voice

Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

Chita Rivera Found Her Emotional Voice for Shows Like ‘West Side Story’

Her dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.

Leave the Poor Princess Alone

Less than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.

‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Review: Bringing a Classic Record to Life

A new Off Broadway musical adds the thrill of intimacy and the weight of history to the Cuban songs popularized on a 1997 album.

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ Review: Alicia Keys’s Musical Is Ambitious

A promising Off Broadway jukebox musical features hits by the R&B star (including “Fallin’,” “If I Ain’t Got You” and “No One”) and a story...

‘Harmony’ Review: Barry Manilow Writes the (Broadway) Songs

The pop star of the 1970s and ’80s crosses over to musical theater with a dark story about pop stars of the 1920s and ’30s.

‘Pal Joey’ Review: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildering

Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he’s now a Black artist trying to find his true...