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Transness Gets Metaphorical in Torrey Peters’s Stag Dance

She examines the messy underbelly of DIY trans culture, diving into the cringier aspects of queer growing pains. By Grace Byron

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How Do You Measure a Career? The Jonathan Larson Project.

A revue of the Rent creator’s trunk songs and offcuts isn’t profound, but it’s moving all the same. By Jackson McHenry

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A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go Mad

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The Severance actress got some college admission advice from her co-star. By Alejandra Gularte

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Druski, Odell Beckham Jr. Deny Involvement in Diddy Case

A woman accused the influencer and NFL star of gang-raping her with Diddy, who also denied the claims. By Justin Curto

got that dog in him Finally, SNL Gives Marcello Hernandez a Dog to Hold Even though the dog didn’t get to ride on the scooter-suitcase with Lady Gaga. By Alejandra Gularte
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cultural pharmacopeia ‘This Show Really Faced an Uphill Battle’ Deli Boys creator Abdullah Saeed talks about putting the jokes first while examining survivor’s guilt and dodging representation discourse. By Hershal Pandya

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Launching Into Adulthood, With Frenemies and Hummus: All Nighter

Senior year is almost over, guys. By Jackson McHenry

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works in progress Not Your High School Crucible Sadie Sink stars in John Proctor is the Villain, a Broadway comedy that upends the classic drama. By Devon Ivie
backstories Toni Morrison’s Lost Play Why did the novelist’s only staged drama disappear for so long? By Elon Green

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here we (literally) go again Mamma Mia! Is Coming Back to Broadway This Summer My, my, how can you resist this? By Jennifer Zhan
chat room Wicked’s Jenna Bainbridge on Reframing Nessarose’s “Tragic” Disability Twenty-one years in, she’s the first disabled actor to play Elphaba’s sister, who uses a wheelchair, on Broadway. By Esme Mazzeo
theater review Dakar 2000 Is a Tense and Unstable Thriller It falls short of wild combustible invention but also stops shy of absolute historical fidelity. By Jackson McHenry
theater review Overexposition: On the Evolutionary Function of Shame A script that tries to do a lot of explaining. By Sara Holdren

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book review The Minority Report Gets a Trump-Era Update Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel is an alarming dystopian approximation of what we might be headed toward. By Sam Worley
book review Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Frustrating Return Her new novel Dream Count suffers from the retrograde gender politics and bad writing that has defined her career of late. By Sanjena Sathian
vulture lists 28 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2025 Reading List Robert Pattinson (and some clones) are heading to space. By Emily Maskell
vulture lists 5 Great Audiobooks to Listen to This Month Including a new novel that will sneak up on you. By Marshall Heyman

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the work of art Lisa Yuskavage Becomes the Protagonist After 35 years of painting her signature girls, the artist has turned to a new subject: herself. By Adam Moss
art review The Exhilarating Anger of Christine Sun Kim Her new show at the Whitney reveals that language is a social currency that constantly places the deaf at a disadvantage. By Jerry Saltz
remembrances Walter Robinson, Rogue Pirate of the Art World The longtime man-about-downtown died this week at age 74. By Jerry Saltz
art review Caspar David Friedrich’s Lonely Islands A retrospective at the Met captures the German romanticist’s epic melancholy. By Jerry Saltz
extremely online The Hyperpigmentation Drawing Meme Is a Work of Art Call it TikTok’s modern-day Mona Lisa. By Jennifer Zhan