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Our Favorite Things: Holiday Gifts for the Theater Fan In Your Life
Stick these presents under your tree and you'll make the theater geek in your life very happy.
Taraji P. Henson as Miss Hannigan, Tituss Burgess as Rooster Hannigan, Nicole Scherzinger as Grace Farrell, Celina Smith as Annie, Harry Connick, Jr. as Daddy Warbucks
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5 Things to Look Out for During NBC's Annie Live
Here's what to expect from the broadcast, which airs tonight at 8pm.
Stephen Sondheim with the Encores! cast of <em>Merrily We Roll Along</em>
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Remembering Stephen Sondheim, the Man
Sondheim, dead at 91, lived long enough to see his own legacy form, for better or for worse.
Roasting Pilgrims for Thanksgiving With <em>Addams Family Values</em>
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Roasting Pilgrims for Thanksgiving With Addams Family Values
Screenwriter Paul Rudnick discusses his wild Thanksgiving pageant from the beloved 1993 film.
Emmanuel Elpenord, Chris Palmieri, Jake Bazel, and Kirsty Moon appear in <em>Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation</em> at Theatre Row.
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All the Shows in New York With Black Friday Matinees
Why shop when you can see a show?
Andrew Garfield and Alexandra Shipp in <em>Tick, Tick...Boom!</em>
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How the Tick...Tick...Boom! Film Guides Us Through Our Own Struggle With the Ticking Clock
Lin-Manuel Miranda deepens and improves upon Jonathan Larson's musical and helps us relate even more.
Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
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Twenty-Five Years Later, a Post-Mort on Boublil and Schönberg's Martin Guerre
It could have been the next Les Mis — but times and styles had changed before this show took the stage.
Chris Giarmo, David Byrne, and Tendayi Kuumba appear in David Byrne's <em>American Utopia</em> at Broadway's St. James Theatre.
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5 Easy Broadway-Inspired Halloween Costumes
Here's how to look like you had your costume fashioned by a Broadway designer — on the cheap!
Vincent Price in a screenshot from <em>Theatre of Blood</em>
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Vincent Price and Diana Rigg Cut Down Critics in Theatre of Blood
In this little-known horror movie, Price plays an aging actor who dispatches his detractors in ways created by Shakespeare.
The Broadway <em>Phantom of the Opera</em> cast takes its first curtain call on reopening night
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Were You at Phantom for Its Reopening? Our Resident Phan Gives Us All the Pheels
The Phantom of the Opera officially returned to Broadway on Friday, October 22.
Tony nominee Amber Gray in <em>Hadestown</em> on Broadway
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Opinion: Is It Time for Performers to Renegotiate the Eight-Show Week?
Broadway is beginning to see more of its talent eager to embrace alternates in their shows.
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The Art of the Pivot: How Theater-Industry Workers Navigated the Pandemic
In March 2020, theater workers across the world were forced to scramble when their industry shut down. Here are some of the things they figured out.
Celia Rose Gooding, Derek Klena, Elizabeth Stanley, Sean Allan Krill star in <em>Jagged Little Pill</em>, one of the three musicals nominated for the 2020 Best Musical Tony Award.
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Who Will Win a 2020 Tony Award (in 2021)? Our Critics Make Their Predictions
Two critics discuss the strangest Tony Awards of their lives.
Rob McClure stars in <em>Mrs. Doubtfire</em> on Broadway.
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The 9 Shows You Need to See in New York This Fall
These are the shows on and off-Broadway I am most looking forward to seeing.
Rick McKay is the creator of <em>Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age</em>.
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Rick McKay's Final Film, 18 Years in the Making, Goes Beyond Broadway's Golden Age
The sequel to McKay's Broadway: The Golden Age airs on PBS this month, more than three years since his untimely passing.
Inside the premiere of <em>The Show Must Go On</em>
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New Documentary Explores How South Korean Theaters Kept Running Through Covid
The Show Must Go On made its premiere at Broadway's Majestic Theater.
Jon Michael Hill, Namir Smallwood, and Gabriel Ebert star in Antionette Chinonye Nwandu's <em>Pass Over</em>, directed by Danya Taymor, at Broadway's August Wilson Theatre.
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Broadway Celebrates the First Night of Pass Over
A new American play by Antionette Chinonye Nwandu is the first out of the gate for the fall season on Broadway.
American swimmers Ryan Murphy and Caeleb Dressel celebrate a first-place finish in the Men's 4 x 100m Medley Relay.
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The 5 Most Dramatic Stories of the 2021 Olympics
Jonesing for high drama? The Olympics provide.
Old Broadway sugar packets galore
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The Weird and Wonderful World of Broadway Merchandise
T-shirts and mugs aren't the only Broadway souvenirs you can get these days - make room for the tchotchkes.
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa
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On the Scene at Broadway's First Night Back, as Bruce Springsteen Shows Us Who's Boss
The St. James Theatre reopens for a summertime run of Springsteen's stirring concert performance.
Paul Walter Hauser, Emma Stone, and Joel Fry star in Disney’s <em>Cruella</em>.
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5 Broadway Villains That Deserve a Cruella-Style Prequel
Broadway audiences want to know how they got to be so bad.
Corey Cott and Laura Osnes lead the cast of <em>Bandstand</em> on Broadway.
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5 Musicals to Watch on Memorial Day
These shows honor America's fallen heroes.
Ibinado Jack, Liisi LaFontaine, and Amber Riley starred in the West End production of <em>Dreamgirls</em> at the Savoy Theatre.
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7 Shows That Should Be Revived on Broadway
Broadway is coming back and we hope some of our favorite shows will come with it.
These are some of the contestants in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest.
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The 5 Best Songs From Eurovision 2021
No Broadway? No problem! Eurovision's got you covered.