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Main-Character Energy: Cat Cohen’s Broad Strokes

 Her new show at the Lortel is informed by an intense medical experience. By Jackson McHenry
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New York City Has Javert Fever

 Eager superfans, a surprise Patti LuPone appearance, and questionable teddy bears: Les Misérables at Radio City has it all. By Fran Hoepfner
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Past As Prologue: The Whoopi Monologues and The Potluck

 A reinterpretation of Whoopi Goldberg’s astonishing 1984 breakthrough show and a meta-musical about turning awful history into good theater. By Jackson McHenry
  1. ai music
    Boy George Departs Jesus Christ Superstar After AI-Generated Pro-Israel SongHis manager, RHOBH’s Paul “PK” Kemsley, said “it was right to step aside, allowing the production to remain the focus.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. stage whisperer
    New York City Has Javert FeverEager superfans, a surprise Patti LuPone appearance, and questionable teddy bears: Les Misérables at Radio City has it all.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  3. announcements
    Introducing How to Watch, Read, and Love Shakespeare, by Sara HoldrenCritic-director Sara Holdren’s guide to the greatest English playwright, from line to stage.
    By Sara Holdren
  4. theater review
    Main-Character Energy: Cat Cohen’s Broad StrokesHer new show at the Lortel is informed by an intense medical experience.
    By Jackson McHenry
  5. give my regards to broadway
    Purple Rain Heads for the Great White WayThe stage adaptation has a new creative team after being ravaged out of town.
    By Jason P. Frank
  7. theater review
    Past As Prologue: The Whoopi Monologues and The PotluckA reinterpretation of Whoopi Goldberg’s astonishing 1984 breakthrough show and a meta-musical about turning awful history into good theater.
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. theater review
    Giulia: A Baroque-Era Poisoner’s Tale all’AmericanaJennifer Nettles writes and stars in a Sicilian pop-eretta.
    By Jackson McHenry
  9. theater review
    Taking the Long View, Brilliantly: Birthright and CampingTwo powerful new works trace the way we grow up and draw closer — or come apart.
    By Sara Holdren
  10. stage whisperer
    Jimmy Award Winner Samia Posadas Is Ready to WorkThe musical theater wunderkind is off to college, unless the right job comes along: “Of course I’m going to take it.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  11. new york new york
    Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis’s Warriors Musical Is Broadway BoundIt’s not about the cats.
    By Jason P. Frank
  12. stage whisperer
    The Best Play You Can Find in a One-Bedroom Greenpoint ApartmentThe buzzy Slanted Floors is being staged for six people per night — carrot stew included.
    By Jason P. Frank
  13. marmalade news
    Paddington Sails to AmericaThe long-rumored transfer of Paddington: The Musical will finally debut on Broadway.
    By Jason P. Frank
  14. theater review
    June’s Off Broadway Productions to SeeXhloe & Natasha and Todd Almond’s Fringe imports, plus a bracing dose of anti-McCarthyism at City Center.
    By Sara Holdren
  15. theater kids
    So Olivia Rodrigo Wrote a MusicalBroadway producers are probably salivating over You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love.
    By Jason P. Frank
  16. theater review
    A Romeo and Juliet That Ignores Its Own StrengthA production that rejects Shakespeare’s poetry puts itself at a disadvantage from the start.
    By Sara Holdren
  17. the t in egot
    ‘Gitchie Gitchie Laurie Metcalf Unlocked Everything’The maestros behind P!nk’s name-checking, Moulin Rouge!–inspired Tonys opening number reveal how they pulled it all off.
    By Devon Ivie
  18. tony awards 2026
    Bernadette Peters Has a Passion for That Cynthia Erivo RumorShe believes the Wicked star will revive Sondheim’s Passion.
    By Bethy Squires
  19. rachel zegler voice: tony!
    The 2026 Tony WinnersSchmigadoon! was the night’s big winner, taking home Best Musical.
    By Jason P. Frank
  20. the t in egot
    Every Single Thing That Happened at the 2026 Tony AwardsThe Cats: The Jellicle Ball website crashed after the musical’s Tonys performance.
    By Vulture Editors
  21. theater kids
    P!nk Should Probably Just Host the Tonys Every Year Now“Gitchie gitchie Lesley Manville.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. stage whisperer
    Qween Jean’s Broadway Reign Is Just BeginningThe Cats: The Jellicle Ball and Liberation costumer is nominated for two Tonys in her first year of eligibility.
    By Jason P. Frank
  23. stage whisperer
    Theater Stars, Awards Gossip, and at Least Two Knicks FansTo kick off Tonys weekend, New York’s theater elite partied with Vulture high above Times Square.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. stage whisperer
    Who Will Win the 2026 Tony Awards?It’s been a topsy-turvy Tony season, with new productions taking a backseat to revivals. But someone still has to win.
    By Jackson McHenry
  25. stage whisperer
    ‘Why Is There No Tony for Best Wigs?’Fallen Angels has one of the best jokes of the spring theater season. It’s on Rose Byrne’s head.
    By Jason P. Frank
  26. theater review
    Music in the Darkness: Girl, Interrupted Comes to the StageA new adaptation of the book incorporates music by Aimee Mann.
    By Jackson McHenry
  27. p!nk news
    How to Watch the 2026 Tony AwardsBecause New York doesn’t stop when the Knicks have a night off.
    By Jason P. Frank
  28. theater review
    The Loneliness of the Ghost-Town Throuple: JeromeIn John J. Caswell Jr.’s play, a gay couple living in the Arizona desert meet a stranger with a secret.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. stage whisperer
    Gina Gionfriddo Does Mean WellAfter leaving theater for nearly ten years, the playwright is nominated for her first Tony for Becky Shaw. She’s ready for it.
    By Jason P. Frank
  30. theater review
    Video Killed The MaidsIn the hands of Kip Williams, Genet’s dark drama somehow becomes a play about how you look at your phone too much.
    By Jackson McHenry
  31. profile
    Morgan Bassichis Talks to GhostsThe performer’s hit solo show, Can I Be Frank?, is part séance, part comedy routine, and unlike anything else in theater right now.
    By E. Alex Jung
  32. theater review
    Indian Princesses, at the Corner of Cringe and CompassionIn Eliana Theologides Rodriguez’s play, fathers who don’t really understand their daughters still try to do right by them.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. the t in egot
    ‘I Struggle With the Scott Rudin of It All’Two anonymous Tony Awards voters tell us who’s earning their votes this year.
    By Devon Ivie
  34. scenes
    My Week in the Los Angeles Clown SceneThis winter, Allison P. Davis traveled to L.A.’s Eastside to settle one of comedy’s most controversial debates: Is the art of clowning a joke?
    By Allison P. Davis
  35. theater review
    Heather Christian’s Animal Wisdom Returns, Its Magnetism IntactFirst performed a decade ago by the composer-playwright (and MacArthur Genius) herself, this spectacular piece is now embodied by Kenita Miller.
    By Sara Holdren
  36. the culture business
    Why the Metropolitan Opera Needed a Saudi Lifeline“In spite of repressive aspects of the Saudi regime,” accepting up to $200 million from the kingdom was not a difficult decision, says Peter Gelb.
    By Rachel Corbett
  37. profile
    Only John Lithgow Could Get Away With ThisHe’s terrific as Roald Dahl in Giant, a play at the center of the antisemitism vs. anti-Zionism debate.
    By Rebecca Alter
  38. stage whisperer
    ‘If Those Stockings Had a Sound, What Would It Be?’For her Tony-nominated Death of a Salesman score, Caroline Shaw knew she had to do something different.
    By Justin Davidson
  39. theater review
    Teen Angst, Online and IRL, in Dad Don’t Read ThisYoung people entangle with friends and Sims in Eliya Smith’s new play.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. in conversation
    Taraji P. Henson Tells It Like It IsThe actress is having a ball in her Broadway debut, but she still has some bones to pick with Hollywood.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  41. prettiest girl in america
    Meg Stalter’s Dream of Doing Oh, Mary Is Coming TrueThe prettiest girl in the America? More like … the prettiest First Lady in America.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  42. not a parody
    The New ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Musical Will Be Mandatory FunLet’s get him that EGOT.
    By Devon Ivie
  43. theater review
    Work Is Work: The Receptionist and The FeverAdam Bock’s play earns a middling performance review; Wallace Shawn’s is a unicorn.
    By Sara Holdren
  44. a long talk
    ‘I Want to Make Theater for the Millions’Fresh off a dozen Tony nominations, Michael Arden discusses The Lost Boys, the Maybe Happy Ending controversy, and his Queen of Versailles misfire.
    By Jason P. Frank
  45. broadway
    Book of Mormon Cancels Performances Through May 17 Due to Fire“The exact cause of the fire is unknown.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  46. theater review
    A Hamlet Without an Idea in Its SkullThe National Theatre’s production comes to BAM, cut and reshuffled for no apparent reason besides novelty.
    By Sara Holdren
  47. the t in egot
    The Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! Tie for Most Tony NominationsHere are the full list of nominees for the 2026 Tony Awards.
    By Jason P. Frank
  48. tomorrow is a latter day
    Book of Mormon Musical Cancels Two Shows After Electrical Fire“There’s been substantial damage on the fourth floor, in the electrical room.”
    By Alejandra Gularte
  49. pew-lit-ser
    Bess Wohl’s Liberation Wins the Pulitzer Prize for DramaDaniel Kraus’s one-sentence war novel Angel Down took the Fiction award.
    By Jason P. Frank
  50. stage whisperer
    It Turns Out Jeremy Jordan Can DanceThe Broadway star has the moves as Bobby Darin in Just in Time. It’s just hard for him to accept it.
    By Julia Edelstein
  51. theater review
    Robert Wilson’s Last Voyage: Moby DickIn this rock-musical Melville adaptation at BAM, the late avant-gardist braves forbidden seas and barbarous coasts.
    By Sara Holdren
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