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Center: Roy Haylock (better known as Bianca Del Rio) played 'Hugo/Loco Chanelle' and Layton Williams played 'Jamie New' in the West End production of <em>Everybody’s Talking About Jamie</em>. They will reprise their roles for the U.S. debut at the Ahmanson Theatre.
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Center Theatre Group's Season Gets Underway, Slowly, Following Covid Shutdowns
Theater returns to LA's Music Center with two shows about identity.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appears before a crowd at the National Mall.
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Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy Has Endured Onstage for Decades
In 1976, Billy Dee Williams embodied Dr. King on Broadway.
Peter Dinklage leads the cast of the feature film <em>Cyrano</em>, directed by Joe Wright, for MGM.
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Dinklage's Cyrano, New Songs in a Musical Tradition
Edmond Rostand's classic play has been turned into a tuner several times before.
Clare Luce Booth (Carmen Cusack) sees her mother (Michele Ragusa) in heaven, which is depicted as a giant moving palm tree.
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Designing an Acid Trip Onstage: The Hallucinogenic Set of Flying Over Sunset
Beowulf Boritt reveals some of the secrets hiding onstage at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.
In Memoriam: Remembering the Theater Icons We Lost in 2021
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In Memoriam: Remembering the Theater Icons We Lost in 2021
Broadway said farewell to a great many legends this year.
The Shows We're Looking Forward to in 2022
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The Shows We're Looking Forward to in 2022
We can't wait to see these plays and musicals on and off-Broadway.
Our 5 Favorite Broadway Debuts of 2021
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Our 5 Favorite Broadway Debuts of 2021
These are the ones we will remember.
Our 5 Favorite Theatrical Performances of 2021
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Our 5 Favorite Theatrical Performances of 2021
Find out who made our list, and why we're happy to remember them.
Our 6 Favorite Theater Productions of 2021
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Our 6 Favorite Theater Productions of 2021
There were a lot of shows on offer this year, both in-person and online.
Garth Drabinsky is the lead producer of <em>Paradise Square</em> on Broadway.
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Broadway Shockers 2021: Convicted Fraudster Garth Drabinsky Returns as Broadway Producer
The Ragtime producer makes his comeback with Paradise Square.
Scott Rudin was the most powerful producer on Broadway until this year.
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Broadway Shockers 2021: The Fall of Mega-Producer Scott Rudin
2021 was the year Rudin's notorious reputation finally caught up with him.
The El Capitan Theatre marquee
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Inside the West Side Story Experience at Disney's El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood
If you're in LA, you have the chance to see this new movie the way it's meant to be seen. And heard.
(image via Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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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.
Times Square
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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.