Agosto Machado spent decades building altars to a vanished queer New York. Find his tribute inside the Whitney Biennial before…
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I went to ‘Les Misérables’ at Radio City and came home a singing student revolutionary
One critic's neighbors have not recovered from a week of 'Les Mis' earworms. Here's what the arena concert spectacular gets…
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Before ‘Purple Rain’ hits Broadway, meet the photographer who knew Prince best
Broadway is getting ready to resurrect another pop icon when Purple Rain opens at the Majestic Theatre next March. Based…
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Cat Cohen turns a near-death experience into Off-Broadway’s funniest solo show
Cat Cohen turns a stroke and a hole in her heart into a sharp, funny Off-Broadway solo show at the…
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What is art? What is crime? Colson Whitehead’s ‘Cool Machine’ lets its characters argue it out
Ray Carney returns for one last job in 'Cool Machine,' Colson Whitehead's gritty, funny finale to the Harlem Trilogy.
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15 years in, Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway’s ‘Boom!’ hasn’t lost a beat
'Boom!' plays 54 Below for its 15th anniversary, with Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway proving sibling harmony still sells out…
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Jennifer Nettles can write a hit. ‘Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo’ needs more
Grammy winner Jennifer Nettles takes on a 17th-century poisoner's legend in 'Giulia,' now playing at PAC NYC.
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‘The Whoopi Monologues’ is a triumph, even divided five ways
Over 40 years after her Broadway debut, Whoopi Goldberg's characters get five new voices.
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Inside the boot camp training America’s next theater critics
National Critics Institute: how the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is training critics to outlast the algorithms.
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Bonnie Tyler dies at 75, leaving behind pop’s most unlikely vampire anthem
Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" started as a vampire love song for a shelved Nosferatu musical. Here's the…
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