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Angela Lansbury, Broadway’s Beloved Everywoman

She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.

Review: In Lea Michele, ‘Funny Girl’ Has Finally Found Its Fanny

The “Glee” star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.

After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook?

We can no longer ignore the theater’s systemic inequities. But leaving them behind may remake the industry in unexpected ways.

In the Theater, Workers Are Demanding Better Conditions

The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.

When Paying Dues Doesn’t Pay the Rent, How Does the Theater Survive?

Frank talk about salaries and the end of unpaid internships are positive steps, but the cost may be fewer opportunities to learn the ropes.

Is It Finally Twilight for the Theater’s Sacred Monsters?

Many of the “great men” who helped America create its classics, its institutions and its own acting style were tyrants. We need to cut them...

‘Funny Girl’ Review: Broadway Revival Shows Why It Took So Long

Beanie Feldstein stars as the comic Fanny Brice in the show’s return after almost 60 years.

Review: ‘The Minutes,’ an Official History of American Horror

In Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.

Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words

James McAvoy gives a ravishing performance, without benefit of prosthetics or props, in a new adaptation alive with the love of language.

Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm

Sam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss star in an electric revival of the David Mamet play about capitalism in a junk shop.
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