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  1. theater review
    What’ll It Be? At FOOD, the End of the World As We Know It.A farcical, funny, and haunting commentary on the industrialized, globalized diet.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. *cello playing intensifies*
    Grant Gustin to Warble in Water for ElephantsHeading to Broadway this spring.
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. theater review
    Sabbath’s Theater Can’t Get Out of Its HeadAn adaptation of Philip Roth ends up feeling uncharacteristically tame.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. theater review
    I Need That Does Not Spark JoyDanny and Lucy DeVito, as an almost-hoarder and his daughter, are trapped in a play full of junk.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. theater review
    Bring a Bucket and a Mop for This Snatch & TaintyA juicy, joyful, bodily-function-obsessed trip below the belt.
    By Sara Holdren
  7. theater review
    The ‘Yes, We Can’ Spirit of Poor Yella RednecksQui Nguyen’s optimistic, funny immigration tale.
    By Sara Holdren
  8. theater review
    The Box-Checking Work Begins: Merry MeA self-described lesbian sex comedy leans on its Angels in America references.
    By Sara Holdren
  9. theater
    Money, Love, and Music, All at Odds in I Can Get It for You WholesaleAn underseen musical revived, full of intriguing contradictions.
    By Jackson McHenry
  10. casting call
    The Gilded Age Summons Broadway to Fifth AvenueCasting directors Bernie Telsey and Adam Caldwell explain how they fill the show with oh so many Tony nominees.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. no place like broadway
    Superboy and Marian the Librarian Will Take Over Sweeney ToddSutton Foster and Aaron Tveit are stepping into Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban’s roles.
    By Jason P. Frank
  12. art deco
    Rachel Chavkin Is Still in Broadway Beast ModeLempicka, directed by Chavkin, is coming to Broadway just months before her new Gatsby musical premieres in Boston.
    By Jason P. Frank
  13. theater review
    Stereophonic Goes Its Own Way, and Finds Its GrooveA very Rumours rock saga immerses you in the act of creation.
    By Jackson McHenry
  14. theater review
    Covenant Is Best When It’s At Its PulpiestWhy aren’t there more plays that lean into being genre horror?
    By Sara Holdren
  15. stage whisperer
    Ari and Ethan and a Bowl of GuacWicked celebrates 20 years, and everyone’s painting the town green. Also, Sondheim delivers a compelling final message.
    By Vulture Staff
  16. theater
    Still Popular: Chenoweth and Menzel Talk ‘Wicked’For Wicked’s 20th anniversary on Broadway, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel reunite to talk about high notes, low rumors, and onstage emergencies.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. theater review
    Make Like a Tree: Renae Simone Jarrett’s DaphneOvid’s telling of the myth, reimagined.
    By Sara Holdren
  18. theater review
    The Last Midnight: Sondheim and Ives’s ‘Here We Are’A strange, dark, fragmented, and compelling final message from the master.
    By Sara Holdren
  19. stage whisperer
    A New Golden Age for Musicals About Two GuysPlus: Shucked nears the end, Merrily’s price tag, and echoes of Oh, Hello.
    By Vulture Staff
  20. theater review
    Language As Engine: Helen. and MahineratorA feminist Trojan War parable and a monologue that leaps right over the desk to grab you.
    By Sara Holdren
  21. the thee-ay-ter
    Broadway’s Getting AppropriateElle Fanning and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Broadway debut.
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. theater review
    How It Went Down, Revised: Salesman之死 and Room, Room, Room …Two plays that find power in strange historical corners.
    By Sara Holdren
  23. stage whisperer
    Kellyoke Broadway Week Would Change the WorldMerrily is off and rolling, a certain someone might be eyeing the stage, and Spongebob’s enduring mess. It’s a gala celebration!
    By Vulture Staff
  24. theater review
    A Full, Fierce Day in Sean O’Casey’s DublinA six-hour, three-play DruidO’Casey marathon where the ’20s rhyme with ours, unsettlingly.
    By Sara Holdren
  25. theater review
    Gutenberg! The Musical!’s Broadway Dreams Mostly Come TrueBook of Mormon dynamos Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad reunite on Broadway with a new mission: to elevate a delightful yet padded-out show.
    By Sara Holdren
  26. theater review
    A Long Hike in the Woods: The Refuge PlaysNathan Alan Davis’s three-part epic falls short of its big ambitions.
    By Jackson McHenry
  27. hey little songbird
    Jordan Fisher Will Look Back as the New Orpheus in HadestownReplacing Reeve Carney as Orpheus after his more than four-year run.
    By Jason P. Frank
  28. stage whisperer
    How Should Hadestown Handle Broadway’s Two-to-Five Year Itch?Plus, the hottest finds from the Broadway flea market, our gripes with revival tryouts, and gossip-worthy show promos.
    By Vulture Staff
  29. reunions
    The You Got Older Cast Is Getting Back TogetherThe Clare Barron play returns with a reading at the Shed.
    By Jason P. Frank
  30. books
    Jon Fosse Wins Nobel Prize in Literature“For his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.â€
    By Zoe Guy
  31. coming soon
    The Tonys Are Prepping to Tread the BoardsAt the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in June.
    By Jason P. Frank
  32. theater review
    Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Where the Stories Intertwine TooAnd the wigs deserve an award all their own.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. theater review
    Melissa Etheridge Takes the Aw-Shucks Road to BroadwayMy Window is a night of songs and personal biography, loosely hung together.
    By Jackson McHenry
  34. rip
    Sir Michael Gambon, Dumbledore in Harry Potter, Dead at 82Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, and more have paid tribute to their late co-star.
    By Jason P. Frank
  35. stage setting
    Stage Whisperer Returns, Just Like So Many Andrew Lloyd Webber ShowsBallroom Cats, Canceled Jesus, a merry start for Merrily, and a fight over Spamalot’s Taran Killam, all in one place.
    By Vulture Staff
  36. not dead yet
    Spamalot Will Not Succeed on Broadway, AgainHear ye, we have found out Sir Lancelot(s).
    By Jason P. Frank
  37. theater review
    Slapstick and Plague, in Mary Gets HersWacky fun with medieval horrors.
    By Sara Holdren
  38. announcements
    Stage Whisperer, Vulture’s Theater Newsletter, Extends Its RunWeekly theater news, delivered a little louder for the people in the back.
    By Jackson McHenry
  39. theater review
    Little Shop of Blah-Blah: Theresa Rebeck’s DigA redemption play that betrays its own premise.
    By Jackson McHenry
  40. theater review
    Did a Bot Write This Review of Prometheus Firebringer? No, and Here’s Why Not.A script written and performed by AI in real time has unexpected effects on an audience.
    By Sara Holdren
  41. improv
    The Second City Is Close to Opening Its Doors in New YorkThe legendary theater’s “first city†location will open November 16.
    By Hershal Pandya
  42. theater review
    Job Pays Off and Clocks Out“Like a good TV crime drama, it’s manipulative in a value-neutral sense: It knows the position it wants to put you in, and it puts you there.â€
    By Sara Holdren
  43. theater review
    In Swing State, Bleak Politics in the Tall GrassRebecca Gilman’s story is hemmed in on all sides.
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. theater review
    Rachel Bloom Sets Avoidance to Song in Death, Let Me Do My ShowA terrible March 2020, exposed but not too exposed.
    By Jackson McHenry
  45. theater review
    The Mortal Truths of Annie Baker’s Infinite Life“This is part of Baker’s brilliance: to ruffle feathers with the calmest of breezes.â€
    By Sara Holdren
  46. drama (no literally)
    What’s the Matter With Mary Jane?Rachel McAdams will make her Broadway debut in the Amy Herzog play.
    By Jason P. Frank
  47. theater review
    Shadows and Seams, Both Visible: No Good Things Dwell in the FleshIn Christina Masciotti’s play about a Queens tailor facing her career’s end, the principal characters are everything.
    By Sara Holdren
  48. exit interview
    ‘There’s No Cheating in These Plays’Marin Ireland on the embarrassing part of performing Uncle Vanya in an apartment.
    By Jason P. Frank
  49. theater review
    A Tempest in the Park That’s (Mostly) No Thoughts, Just VibesIn tone and temperament, this production owes much more to Disney than it does to Shakespeare.
    By Sara Holdren
  50. da-doo
    It’s Corbin Bleu, Constance Wu, and Audrey II, TooStarring in Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway.
    By Jason P. Frank
  51. fall preview 2023
    Leslie Odom Jr. Returns, in a Red-Hot American SatireThe actor is back on Broadway for Purlie Victorious, a show more skeptical than the one that made him famous.
    By Jackson McHenry
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