Special Reports

Is having created a hit enough of a reason to stand with someone who made lives miserable in the process?

You may be surprised at how well it holds up these days, compared with the more widely celebrated Tootsie.

If you're looking to make a donation, consider some of these theaters.

There's room to celebrate works like Soft Power without discarding South Pacific.

A flash concert in Times Square offers hope that the live theater will return in 2021.

The theater community discusses what it would take to reopen the industry, while discussing all the things they miss, in the last section of our oral history project.

Nearly a week after the theater industry shuts down, Covid cases start to rise, and two high-profile shows announce they've closed.

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With the industry shut down, theaters scramble to make archival recordings of several productions, while UK-based actors make a mad dash to get back home. And then people started getting sick.

The multicultural musical event was groundbreaking in 1997. Does it stand up in 2021?

Three decades after the original production closed, Assassins is more relevant than ever.

On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Six was scheduled to open. But everyone knew what was coming.

From James Baldwin to Lorraine Hansberry, here are the plays and musicals we'd like to see get their due in New York City.

As an usher tests positive for Covid-19, the theater community braces itself for the inevitable.

Actors stopped signing autographs at the stage door and audiences became more wary as March 2020 — and news of the coronavirus hitting New York — rolled in.

The theater community remembers the extraordinary period between January and March 2020, as the industry and world came to a screeching halt.

The Senator from Vermont becomes a delightful meme.

Watch Cynthia Erivo perform this number from Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner's 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

The four-time Oscar nominee and veteran stage actor/director tells us what she misses most during this period of extended closure.

Broadway said farewell to a great many legends this year.

From Burgess Meredith to William Shatner, these theater stars traveled from the Great White Way into the wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

We remember all of these shows, some of which won't return when Broadway reopens.

Live theater did exist this year. Here are my favorites.

From Dick Whittington and Meet Me in St. Louis to a virtual telethon for the West Bank Cafe, here are some things you should check out as you celebrate the holidays.