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The Best Theatre of 2025
In September, the playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney returned to his career-making breakthrough from 2007, a mythopoeic tale about Oshoosi…
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Strictly Come Dancing: Stars gear up for Musicals week as final looms
It's just two weeks to go until the final of Strictly Come Dancing 2025, and things are heating up on the ballroom floor. Saturday night…
Style
The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank
A few years ago, Andrew Fox was struck by a transcendently bad idea. He would turn the story of Anne Frank into a satirical hip-hop…
Culture
Stephen Sondheim’s creative secret weapon had nothing to do with Broadway musicals
Lots of research shows that doing mental exercises can ward off dementia and the effects of aging, but can it actually make you better at…
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What We Learned From ‘Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl’: Her Love for Shakespeare, MGM Musicals, Sabrina Carpenter as a Fellow Survivor, and More
“Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” has begun unspooling in cinemas nationwide for its limited three-day engagement,…
Culture
Why New Musicals Are Idina Menzel’s Proudest Accomplishments
Idina Menzel is back on Broadway in a new musical — and for the Tony-winning actor, now starring in “Redwood,” it’s exactly the kind of…
Culture
Sara Bareilles Talks with Rachel Syme
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“Emilia Pérez” Is an Incurious Musical About a Trans Drug Lord
The artifice of musicals and the exaggeration of melodrama derive their importance not as escapes from reality but as illuminations of it.…