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Jan 31

The 92nd Street Y Throws John Guare A Star-Studded 85th Birthday Bash

The author of such landmarks as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "The House of Blue Leaves" recalls his long career, which started with two plays written at age 11.
By Harry Haun
Jan 31

How Playwright Sharr White Built A Broadway Domestic Dramedy From Family Photos

White created 'Pictures from Home' from photographer Larry Sultan's 1992 memoir of the same name. "It’s heartbreaking and also very funny."
By Harry Haun
Jan 18

Off-Broadway’s Bathrooms: A Ranked Love Letter

We freshen up in them, overhear theater gossip in them, and wash our hands before leaving them. Now we rank them.
By Billy McEntee
Jan 17

Eduardo Machado’s ‘Not About Me’ Is A Memory Journey Through Parallel Plagues

By Harry Haun
Dec 30

Stephen McKinley Henderson Is Center Stage As Pulitzer Prize Winner ‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ Comes to Broadway

By Harry Haun
Dec 12

Review: Sondheim’s Brilliant Flop ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Is Smartly Revived

By David Cote
Dec 9

‘Ohio State Murders’: 75 Minutes of Waiting for Something To Happen

By Rex Reed
Dec 8

For Cameron Crowe and Neal Preston, the ‘Almost Famous’ Musical is Full Circle

By Rachel Millman
Dec 5

Audra McDonald Is Broadway’s Busiest (And Most Awarded) Star

By Harry Haun
Dec 5

Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Is A Portrait of The Rock Star As Depressed Senior Citizen 

By David Cote
Nov 30

Three-Time Tony Winner Jack O’Brien Explains “How to Goddamn Direct” In New Memoir

By Harry Haun
Nov 22

Bruce Norris On The Moral Complexities of ‘Downstate’

By Harry Haun
Nov 9

The Directors of ‘1776’ Explain How The Revival Represents America Today

By Harry Haun
Nov 2

Father and Son Reed and Ephraim Birney Bring ‘Chester Bailey’ to Life at the Irish Rep

By Harry Haun
Oct 18

She Screams, They Scream, We All Scream For Lea Michelle In ‘Funny Girl’

By Rex Reed
Oct 10

‘Leopoldstadt’: Tom Stoppard’s Epic Five-Act Tour of His Family Tree

By Harry Haun
Sep 21

Dominic Fumusa Takes the Stage In a Play That Scares Him With ‘Jasper’

By Harry Haun
Sep 16

Samuel L. Jackson Was Once an Understudy in “The Piano Lesson.” Now He’s A Star.

By Harry Haun
Sep 6

Daniel K. Isaac Brings A Korean Epic, Full of Fairy Tales and History, To The La MaMa Stage

By Harry Haun
Aug 31

David Rockwell Has Designed Three Broadway shows and One Broadway Hotel This Year

By Harry Haun
Aug 22

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton Talk About Taking Their Children’s Book Empire to the Stage

By Harry Haun
Aug 8

Mary Rodgers, Jesse Green and the Making of a No-Holds-Barred Memoir

By Harry Haun
Aug 5

Sara Bareilles Makes a Home on Broadway With ‘Into the Woods’

By Harry Haun
Jul 25

Alison Fraser Is a Different Kind of Big Mama In An Innovative ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’

By Harry Haun
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