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Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to ‘The Lion King’

After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She’s Back on Broadway.

Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop

Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.

‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness

Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.

Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.

‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.

Adam Lambert Is Finding the Fun, and the Fear, in ‘Cabaret’

Making his Broadway debut as the show’s Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls “a thinking piece of musical theater.”

Elf on Broadway Review: Grey Henson Is on the Nice List

The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.

Time-Traveling, or Wishing to, in ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’

Adapted from the offbeat 2012 film, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.