Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner A Rough Way To Go by Sam Garonzik Once Upon a Time by Elizabeth Beller The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon by Heath Hardage Lee Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan Magic Pill by Johann Hari All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield   More

After 17 months playing the Beggar Woman in the recent revival of Sweeney Todd, Ruthie Ann Miles moves to yet another Stephen Sondheim show—a concert production of A Little Night Music this June, at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. (The actress also appeared with More

The choreographer Justin Peck first pitched Ricky Ubeda the idea for Illinoise, a dance piece set to the music of Sufjan Stevens, on a walk in Riverside Park. Ubeda, a 28-year-old dancer who won season 11 of So You Think You Can Dance, had worked ... More

In a crowded, competitive season of theater openings, one of the year’s biggest breakouts is certainly 27-year-old actress Sarah Pidgeon. She makes her Broadway debut this month in Stereophonic, a riveting play with music by Will Butler about a band in seemingly endless recordings of the follow-up ... More

It may have taken until 2022 for the British stage, film and television actor Will Keen to break out, and he did it as playing Vladimir Putin in Patriots by Peter Morgan (The Crown). Told from the perspective of billionaire Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky (in London played ... More

A decade ago, the Juilliard-trained Scottish actress Gayle Rankin starred in the 2014 revival of Cabaret as Fräulein Kost, with Alan Cumming as the Emcee. This spring, she returns to the show in a new production as the show’s star, Sally Bowles, opposite Eddie Redmayne. Eagerly awaited from ... More

Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks’ first show at the Public Theater, The America Play, went up in 1994. Three decades later, she’s there presenting her 12th: Sally & Tom, a backstage story of a troupe producing a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Their relationship “has ... More

In 2018, when Second Stage Theater opened its new Broadway home at the Helen Hayes, Tony award–winning actress Celia Keenan-Bolger reconnected with playwright Paula Vogel, who won the Pulitzer in 1998 for How I Learned to Drive. “She mentioned she was writing something for me,” Keenan-Bolger recalls. “I tried not ... More

Many theatergoers might not know that Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish art deco painter. “But they will recognize her art,” says Eden Espinosa (Rent and Wicked), who plays the artist in a new musical, Lempicka, directed by Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown). “Lempicka’s story is so layered and ... More

To prepare for his role as the Pinball Wizard himself in this season’s revival of The Who’s Tommy, Moroccan American actor Ali Louis Bourzgui watched every live performance by and interview with The Who that he could find on YouTube. As dedicated as that may sound, Bourzgui ... More