A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.
Tag: Theater
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Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken
The actor conveyed the gravitational force of mortality, tugging the men he played so commandingly toward a void beyond meaning, our critic writes.
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Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical is Opening. How Complete Was It?
Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called “Here We Are,” begins performances Thursday.
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How Directors Are Reimagining Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Shows
How hotshot directors are reimagining “Cats,” “Evita,” “Jesus Christ Superstar” and “Sunset Boulevard.”
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Michael McGrath, Tony Winner and ‘Spamalot’ Veteran, Dies at 65
He clanged coconuts in the Monty Python stage musical in 2005; seven years later, he won a Tony for “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”