‘Elf: The Musical’ brings Will Ferrell’s merry movie to Broadway
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Elton John’s ‘Tammy Faye’ musical is far from heaven
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Kenneth Branagh’s sped-up ‘King Lear’ is full of thrills
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‘Maybe Happy Ending’ is the best new musical on Broadway
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‘A Wonderful World: the Louis Armstrong Musical’ goes too easy
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‘Gatz’ is back. Make time for this great, epic take on ‘Gatsby’
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‘Ragtime’s’ rousing election-week revival: we vote Joshua Henry
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There’s not much to love about ‘Romeo + Juliet’ on Broadway
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Julianna Margulies faces love and cancer in ‘Left on Tenth’
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Liza Minnelli goes from Cabaret, old chum, to ‘Drag: The Musical’
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Nicole Scherzinger stuns in ‘Sunset Blvd.’
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Will Adam Driver explode in ‘Hold on to Me Darling’?
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‘Our Town’ gets lost reaching for the stars
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The ghosts of ‘Good Bones’ and ‘Yellow Face’ on Broadway
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In ‘McNeal’ the future belongs to Robert Downey Jr.
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Farewell Gavin Creel, a masterful—and very honest—Broadway star
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‘The Hills of California’ gets lost in time—and loses us too
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The ‘Ghost of John McCain’ is trapped—and it isn’t funny
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‘The Roommate’ on Broadway: Patti LuPone and Mia Farrow do the dark side
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Sutton Foster sizzles in limp ‘Once Upon a Mattress’
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‘Life and Trust’: the new ‘Sleep No More’ is a beautiful, exhausting devil
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Why ‘Aunt Jordan’ from ‘The Young and the Restless’ is the best villain on TV
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How Cole Escola made ‘Oh, Mary!’ Broadway’s hottest summer show
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Any ‘Cats’ haters will be instantly cured by ‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’
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Real Housewives creator: put Ginni Thomas and Mrs. Alito on TV
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How to put the Trump trial on Broadway
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There’s no place like ‘Home’ — now back on Broadway
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William Jackson Harper: the making of a very modest leading man
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From ‘Billions’ to Broadway: how acting ‘saved’ Corey Stoll
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Jessica Lange is thrilling, even if ‘Mother Play’ on Broadway isn’t
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Why Steve Carell is not the star of ‘Uncle Vanya’ on Broadway
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Eddie Redmayne excels as the Emcee in a boozy Broadway ‘Cabaret’
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‘Patriots’ star Will Keen: how I got Vladimir Putin ready for Broadway
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Justin Peck on ‘Illinoise,’ Spielberg, dance, and his movie directing debut
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How Ali Louis Bourzgui of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ became Broadway’s breakout star
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In ‘An Enemy of the People,’ Jeremy Strong finds his way from ‘Succession’ to Broadway
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Brian d’Arcy James on Broadway, booze, Tonys, and ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’
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Schele Williams on directing ‘The Notebook,’ ‘The Wiz’—and making Broadway history
The Daily Beast, February 26, 2024
This great new play reveals the dark side of growing up gay
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Christine Lahti: how feminism saved — and made — me
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They met on ‘Succession.’ Now they’re in ‘Job,’ New York’s buzziest play
The Daily Beast, January 22, 2024
Sarah Paulson takes her ‘Appropriate’ family to the edge
The Daily Beast, December 18, 2023
Tennessee Williams gets lost in ‘The Night of the Iguana’
The Daily Beast, December 17, 2023
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ musical sounds great, but lacks a story
The Daily Beast, December 13, 2023
‘How to Dance in Ohio’ is Broadway’s most original new musical
The Daily Beast, December 10, 2023
‘Manahatta’ shows the brute forces of New York — then and now
The Daily Beast, December 5, 2023
How Gavin Creel survived Broadway — and made his own musical
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‘Life & Times of Michael K’ is a spellbinding endurance epic
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This ‘Spain’ makes little sense as a destination
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Why Spamalot’s Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer loves to play the Broadway diva
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‘Amid Falling Walls’ review: songs of the Holocaust echo through time
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Alicia Keys’ ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ reveals a tender Empire State of Mind
The Daily Beast, November 19, 2023
‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ is back — deliciously silly, slightly dated
The Daily Beast, November 16, 2023
Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks make ‘Waiting for Godot’ a witty pleasure
The Daily Beast, November 14, 2023
Aubrey Plaza finds the fury in ‘Danny and the Deep Blue Sea’
The Daily Beast, November 14, 2023
Barry Manilow’s ‘Harmony’ strikes a bum note on Broadway
The Daily Beast, November 13, 2023
How Anthony Davis put Malcolm X, and Black power, center stage
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Kara Young on ‘Purlie Victorious,’ Tony Awards, Broadway fame, and diversity in theater
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Danny DeVito gets lost in the clutter of ‘I Need That’
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‘I Can Get It for You Wholesale’ launched Streisand. Now it’s gloriously revived
The Daily Beast, October 30, 2023
‘Stereophonic’ makes some very sweet music, indeed
The Daily Beast, October 29, 2023
‘Here We Are’ is Stephen Sondheim’s fractured farewell
The Daily Beast, October 23, 2023
How Patrick Page found himself in Shakespeare’s villains
The Daily Beast, October 16, 2023
‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ on Broadway is extremely, deliciously silly
The Daily Beast, October 12, 2023
‘Merrily We Roll Along’ on Broadway is almost-perfect Sondheim
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David Mills on glamour, despair, and the smart art of cabaret
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‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ has both style and substance
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Melissa Etheridge’s ‘My Window’ is a super Broadway concert, not theater
The Daily Beast, September 28, 2023
‘Purlie Victorious’ skewers racism with passion—and laughter
The Daily Beast, September 27, 2023
‘Job’ review: when a therapy session becomes a hostage situation
The Daily Beast, September 18, 2023
Rachel Bloom would like to tell jokes. Death has other plans
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Annie Baker’s ‘Infinite Life’ finds the point in pain
The Daily Beast, September 12, 2023
‘The Tempest’ serves up Shakespeare-lite, and bright, in Central Park
The Daily Beast, August 31, 2023
‘El Mago Pop’ on Broadway: amazing illusions—and a very hard sell
The Daily Beast, August 21, 2023
‘The Shark Is Broken’ takes a very funny bite out of ‘Jaws’
The Daily Beast, August 10, 2023
‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ is perfect for the movie’s fans
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How the bloody feuds of ‘Jaws’ became ‘The Shark Is Broken’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, August 3, 2023
‘The Cottage’ on Broadway needs renovation
The Daily Beast, July 24, 2023
David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ is a weird dictatorship song and dance
The Daily Beast, July 20, 2023
‘I’m Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire’ takes a superstar cleverly hostage
The Daily Beast, July 18, 2023
Andrew Rannells: how I stood up to Broadway sexual harassment
The Daily Beast, July 7, 2023
Thrilling ‘Hamlet’ in Central Park is hiding a Hollywood star
The Daily Beast, June 28, 2023
Why Jewish comic Alex Edelman infiltrated a group of New York City Nazis
The Daily Beast, June 26, 2023
‘The Great Gatsby’ is now an immersive play—or is it a party?
The Daily Beast, June 25, 2023
Britney Spears musical ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ is a puzzling fairytale
The Daily Beast, June 22, 2023
‘The Doctor’ will see you now, shouting very loudly
The Daily Beast, June 15, 2023
Wendell Pierce on Tony Awards, ambition, racism, and ‘communing’ with his dead mother
The Daily Beast, June 9, 2023
‘Days of Wine and Roses’ is a feelbad musical pickled in alcoholism
The Daily Beast, June 5, 2023
‘Grey House’ on Broadway serves up frights but no bite
The Daily Beast, June 1, 2023
Stephen McKinley Henderson, retire? Just show him the script
The Daily Beast, May 29, 2023
‘Primary Trust’ is one of NYC’s best new plays, Mai Tais included
The Daily Beast, May 25, 2023
Miriam Silverman was born on ‘Good Morning America.’ Next, a Tony award?
The Daily Beast, May 24, 2023
‘Monsoon Wedding’ is a hit film, but not a great musical
The Daily Beast, May 22, 2023
How Bonnie Milligan ‘fought tooth and nail’ to reach the Tony Awards
The Daily Beast, May 20, 2023
If you love LeBron, ‘King James’ may be just the ticket
The Daily Beast, May 16, 2023
Annaleigh Ashford on the Tony Awards, WGA strike, ‘Sweeney Todd,’ and Sondheim
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Young star Benjamin Pajak shines in mixed ‘Oliver!’ revival
The Daily Beast, May 4, 2023
‘New York, New York’ needs to make a brand new start of it
The Daily Beast, April 26, 2023
In ‘Summer, 1976’ Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht make—and break—a friendship
The Daily Beast, April 25, 2023
Sean Hayes plays a dark rhapsody in ‘Good Night, Oscar’
The Daily Beast, April 24, 2023
Jodie Comer makes ‘Prima Facie’ Broadway’s most powerful show
The Daily Beast, April 23, 2023
‘The Thanksgiving Play’ is anti-‘woke’ satire—to what end?
The Daily Beast, April 20, 2023
‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ has such fun causing chaos
The Daily Beast, April 19, 2023
‘Plays for the Plague Year’ is too close for our comfort
The Daily Beast, April 18, 2023
‘Camelot’ on Broadway is a magic-free, dull dud
The Daily Beast, April 13, 2023
Zadie Smith’s ‘The Wife of Willesden’ brings Chaucer loudly to London
The Daily Beast, April 6, 2023
‘Shucked’ on Broadway serves up so much delicious corn
The Daily Beast, April 4, 2023
‘Life of Pi’ Broadway review: he’s lost at sea with only a hungry, angry tiger for company
The Daily Beast, March 30, 2023
‘Sweeney Todd’ review: Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford shine in Broadway revival
The Daily Beast, March 28, 2023
Kolton Krouse is Dancin’ up a Broadway storm all their own
The Daily Beast, March 26, 2023
‘Bad Cinderella’ on Broadway: sadly, the title says it all
The Daily Beast, March 24, 2023
‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin’’ on Broadway is spectacular, mostly
The Daily Beast, March 19, 2023
‘Parade’ is a strange Broadway musical puzzle, lost in time
The Daily Beast, March 16, 2023
New York’s new, must-see plays: ‘How to Defend Yourself’ and ‘The Coast Starlight’
The Daily Beast, March 13, 2023
Jessica Chastain electrifies a no-frills Broadway revival of ‘A Doll’s House’
The Daily Beast, March 9, 2023
Meet the brother and sister who literally become ‘The Trees’
The Daily Beast, March 5, 2023
Sam Morrison lost his partner — and turned it into comedy smash ‘Sugar Daddy’
The Daily Beast, March 3, 2023
‘LOVE’ is stark, powerful—and the best new play in New York
The Daily Beast, March 2, 2023
Don’t cross Parker Posey’s modern Chekhov diva in ‘The Seagull/Woodstock, NY’
The Daily Beast, February 28, 2023
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan get lost in the ’60s of ‘Sidney Brustein’
The Daily Beast, February 27, 2023
‘black odyssey’ takes Homer on an epically engaging ride to Harlem
The Daily Beast, February 26, 2023
Broadway star Ben Platt condemns ‘evil’ neo-nazis after ‘Parade’ protest
The Daily Beast, February 22, 2023
In ‘A Bright New Boise,’ beware the religious fanatic in the break room
The Daily Beast, February 21, 2023
Katie Holmes delivers a perfect Cate Blanchett diss in far-from-perfect ‘The Wanderers’
The Daily Beast, February 16, 2023
‘Cornelia Street’ tries to save a special piece of New York City
The Daily Beast, February 14, 2023
Bill Irwin, the clown who conquered Broadway—and Samuel Beckett
The Daily Beast, February 12, 2023
Nathan Lane and Zoë Wanamaker bring life to fading ‘Pictures From Home’
The Daily Beast, February 10, 2023
Anthony Rapp: I hope Kevin Spacey faces justice in U.K. His lawyers were despicable
The Daily Beast, February 4, 2023
Sam Morrison is grieving his ‘Sugar Daddy,’ movingly and hilariously
The Daily Beast, January 28, 2023
‘Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner’ is murder most clever
The Daily Beast, January 13, 2023
Broadway star Audra McDonald on racism, Tonys, Mama Rose, and her elephant plan
The Daily Beast, December 26, 2022
‘The Collaboration’ on Broadway puts Warhol and Basquiat up for auction
The Daily Beast, December 21, 2022
‘Between Riverside and Crazy’ lies dramatic perfection on Broadway
The Daily Beast, December 20, 2022
Paul Bettany on playing Warhol, family ghosts, and how therapy ‘saved’ him
The Daily Beast, December 19, 2022
‘Merrily We Roll Along’: a slice of stunning Sondheim, starring Daniel Radcliffe
The Daily Beast, December 12, 2022
‘Some Like It Hot’ on Broadway goes all out to razzle-dazzle
The Daily Beast, December 11, 2022
Audra McDonald brings a stunning power to ‘Ohio State Murders’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, December 9, 2022
‘A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical’ is a Broadway concert for the truly devoted
The Daily Beast, December 4, 2022
‘KPOP’ on Broadway is a flashy concert in search of a fuller story
The Daily Beast, November 27, 2022
‘The Hours’ turns again—from book to movie to all-star opera
The Daily Beast, November 23, 2022
‘A Christmas Carol’ on Broadway: one actor, 50 characters, excellent shocks
The Daily Beast, November 21, 2022
In ‘Sandra,’ a missing person’s search gets sexy and strange
The Daily Beast, November 20, 2022
‘& Juliet’ imagines a life after Romeo—with Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys
The Daily Beast, November 17, 2022
Why ‘Downstate’ is New York’s most controversial, must-see play
The Daily Beast, November 16, 2022
Inside the new ‘Museum of Broadway,’ a musical theater fan’s paradise
The Daily Beast, November 14, 2022
They’re dying of laughter at Mike Birbiglia’s show
The Daily Beast, November 14, 2022
‘Kimberly Akimbo’ is the standout new musical on Broadway right now
The Daily Beast, November 11, 2022
‘Where We Belong’ is a stunning search for identity all over the world
The Daily Beast, November 9, 2022
‘Only Gold’ is a musical missing its crown jewel
The Daily Beast, November 7, 2022
Linda Lavin names her price in ‘You Will Get Sick’
The Daily Beast, November 7, 2022
‘Almost Famous’ on Broadway is a rock ‘n’ roll nightmare
The Daily Beast, November 3, 2022
Gabriel Byrne tells a great story in ‘Walking With Ghosts’—just not the full one
The Daily Beast, October 27, 2022
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at the Public is a stunning revival of an American classic
The Daily Beast, October 26, 2022
Bestselling novel ‘A Little Life’ is now an epic piece of theatrical torture porn
The Daily Beast, October 21, 2022
‘Topdog/Underdog’ is the sharpest show on Broadway
The Daily Beast, October 21, 2022
Sharon D Clarke on Broadway, racism, and why her mom Is the real star of ‘Death of a Salesman’
The Daily Beast, October 19, 2022
How ‘Wuthering Heights’ became a mad musical
The Daily Beast, October 18, 2022
Samuel L. Jackson and Danielle Brooks give a Broadway masterclass in ‘The Piano Lesson’
The Daily Beast, October 13, 2022
Katy Sullivan hopes making history on Broadway heralds a revolution
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Sharon D Clarke shines in ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, October 9, 2022
In ‘1776: The Musical’ the drama of democracy rings truer than the songs
The Daily Beast, October 7, 2022
‘I’m Revolting’ puts confronting skin cancer under a sharp microscope
The Daily Beast, October 6, 2022
The ‘Cost of Living’ on Broadway is absolutely worth it
The Daily Beast, October 5, 2022
‘Leopoldstadt’ on Broadway brings Jewish history to haunting, urgent life
The Daily Beast, October 2, 2022
Why King Charles should really be worried about ‘The Crown’ season five
The Daily Beast, September 28, 2022
Melissa Etheridge on helping celebrities come out, love, grief—and how her wild parties inspired ‘The L Word’
The Daily Beast, September 26, 2022
Asi Wind is a master magician. Go join his ‘Inner Circle’
The Daily Beast, September 19, 2022
David Strathairn brings World War II hero Jan Karski to shattering life, with a message for now
The Daily Beast, September 16, 2022
Kate Berlant has created a comedy masterpiece in her show ‘Kate’
The Daily Beast, September 7, 2022
‘As You Like It’ in Central Park is lost in New York time
The Daily Beast, August 30, 2022
How Julia Lester went ‘Into the Woods’ and came out a Broadway star
The Daily Beast, August 10, 2022
‘The Kite Runner’ on Broadway is homophobic trash
The Daily Beast, July 21, 2022
TV icon Donna Mills on ‘Knots Landing,’ ‘Nope,’ and reviving her career at 81
The Daily Beast, July 18, 2022
Inside the Broadway blow-up over Lea Michele replacing Beanie Feldstein in ‘Funny Girl’
The Daily Beast, July 12, 2022
‘Richard III’ is a tame Game of Thrones at Shakespeare in the Park
The Daily Beast, July 11, 2022
Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Into the Woods’ is sheer, moving magic on Broadway
The Daily Beast, July 10, 2022
Deirdre O’Connell is ‘wrassling’ her Tony Award demons, and relishing more ‘weird art’
The Daily Beast, July 5, 2022
This four-hour ‘Hamlet’ is compelling. Just lose the TV screens.
The Daily Beast, June 29, 2022
A fun party gets going in ‘Epiphany.’ Then the ghosts arrive.
The Daily Beast, June 24, 2022
‘Corsicana’ is a haunted play with some very personal ghosts
The Daily Beast, June 22, 2022
‘Queer as Folk’ has a lot to say, and a lot of hot sex while saying it
The Daily Beast, June 8, 2022
Sarah Silverman’s ‘The Bedwetter’ is as proudly rude on stage as the page
The Daily Beast, June 7, 2022
Michael Oberholtzer on terrifying Broadway in ‘Take Me Out,’ his Tony nomination, and that nude video
The Daily Beast, May 27, 2022
‘Fat Ham’ won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Now you can feast on it.
The Daily Beast, May 26, 2022
How Gabby Beans graduated from neuroscience to Tony awards’ lead actress nominee
The Daily Beast, May 24, 2022
James Ijames on the ‘wildest dream’ of his Pulitzer win—and reinventing ‘Hamlet’ in ‘Fat Ham’
The Daily Beast, May 16, 2022
Encores’ all-star ‘Into the Woods’ is the perfect tribute to Stephen Sondheim
The Daily Beast, May 7, 2022
Broadway legend Susan Stroman on ‘POTUS,’ Tonys, her next musical, and Ina Garten’s chicken
The Daily Beast, May 7, 2022
Daniel Craig’s ‘Macbeth’ is a modern, bloody Broadway puzzle, with soup on the side
The Daily Beast, April 29, 2022
Billy Crystal gives ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ charm, laughs, and no drama
The Daily Beast, April 27, 2022
‘POTUS’ on Broadway explodes an all-woman farce in a wild White House
The Daily Beast, April 27, 2022
‘A Strange Loop’ triumphs, uncompromisingly, on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 26, 2022
‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ is crazy, deep, and stars Broadway’s coolest dinosaur
The Daily Beast, April 26, 2022
Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ revival rains on its own parade
The Daily Beast, April 24, 2022
Why ‘Islander’ is New York’s best new musical, and ‘Hangmen’ swing on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 21, 2022
‘For Colored Girls’ beautifully raises Black women’s voices on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 20, 2022
Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse are stunning in ‘How I Learned to Drive’
The Daily Beast, April 19, 2022
Noah Reid on the power of ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ his Broadway debut in ‘The Minutes,’ and anti-LGBTQ laws
The Daily Beast, April 19, 2022
‘The Minutes’ on Broadway brilliantly shows how democracy dies under strip lighting
The Daily Beast, April 18, 2022
Inside the all-star revivals of ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’ and ‘American Buffalo’
The Daily Beast, April 14, 2022
After Oscars glory, here’s the plan for ‘CODA’ the musical
The Daily Beast, April 14, 2022
‘To My Girls’ is a weekend of gay hell in Palm Springs
The Daily Beast, April 12, 2022
‘The Little Prince’ is one strange and beautiful Broadway show
The Daily Beast, April 12, 2022
Debra Messing bakes a cake in ‘Birthday Candles’ on Broadway
, April 10, 2022
How ‘Suffs’ makes a musical out of women’s right to vote
The Daily Beast, April 6, 2022
‘Take Me Out’ returns to bring baseball, masculinity, and nudity center stage on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 5, 2022
How Broadway musical ‘Paradise Square’ gets lost in history
The Daily Beast, April 3, 2022
Harvey Fierstein on love, Broadway, secrets, addiction, and fighting anti-LGBTQ bigotry
The Daily Beast, April 1, 2022
Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick sparkle in ‘Plaza Suite’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, March 28, 2022
Barry Manilow Rips Anti-LGBTQ Republican Politicians and Their Bills: ‘Shame on You!’
The Daily Beast, March 12, 2022
‘English’ is one of the best plays in New York right now
The Daily Beast, February 22, 2022
Sutton Foster is the real star of ‘The Music Man’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, February 11, 2022
Is Aussie mega-soap ‘Neighbours’ really about to be axed? Please say no.
The Daily Beast, February 8, 2022
LGBTQ books are being banned. Their authors are fighting back.
The Daily Beast, February 3, 2022
‘MJ,’ the Michael Jackson Broadway musical, is high on dazzle, low on depth
The Daily Beast, February 1, 2022
Why is ‘And Just Like That’ so obsessed with degrading Steve?
The Daily Beast, January 31, 2022
Phylicia Rashad is the beating heart of ‘Skeleton Crew’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, January 26, 2022
‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ gets a COVID makeover—and stays spellbinding
The Daily Beast, January 25, 2022
Broadway unions revolt over proposal to halve workers’ pay during COVID ‘pauses’
The Daily Beast, January 7, 2022
Cary Grant is high on LSD in ‘Flying Over Sunset.’ Everyone else has a bad trip.
The Daily Beast, December 13, 2021
Patti LuPone and ‘Company’ on Broadway make the perfect tribute to Stephen Sondheim
The Daily Beast, December 10, 2021
Candace Bushnell asks, ‘Is There Still Sex in the City?’ The answer: get me a Cosmo, fast.
The Daily Beast, December 8, 2021
‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ on Broadway is a terrible drag
The Daily Beast, December 5, 2021
Up close and very personal with the real Stephen Sondheim
The Daily Beast, November 27, 2021
How Deirdre O’Connell of ‘Dana H.’ became a Broadway star — without saying a word
The Daily Beast, November 25, 2021
Uzo Aduba plays the devil, deliciously, in ‘Clyde’s’
The Daily Beast, November 23, 2021
‘Trouble in Mind’ makes its stunning Broadway debut, 64 years late
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2021
‘Diana: The Musical’ is a bonkers mess, and a crazy circus of truths
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2021
‘Trevor’ is a gay teen on the edge. Luckily, Diana Ross is there, too.
The Daily Beast, November 11, 2021
‘The Visitor’ makes a bizarre song and dance about ICE custody
The Daily Beast, November 4, 2021
New York City is the invisible, eternal hero in ‘Morning Sun’
The Daily Beast, November 4, 2021
How ‘Caroline, Or Change’ rewrites the Broadway musical
, October 28, 2021
‘Dana H.’ was kidnapped by a psychopath. Now her ordeal is a Broadway play.
The Daily Beast, October 17, 2021
‘The Lehman Trilogy’ on Broadway takes capitalism, and makes it golden
The Daily Beast, October 14, 2021
‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ on Broadway has a lot to say
The Daily Beast, October 11, 2021
‘Is This A Room’ is a real FBI interrogation, and now a standout Broadway show
The Daily Beast, October 11, 2021
‘Chicken & Biscuits’ wants to make a Broadway feast out of a funeral
The Daily Beast, October 10, 2021
‘Lackawanna Blues’ on Broadway brings a Black community beautifully alive
The Daily Beast, October 7, 2021
How reality winner’s FBI interrogation became Broadway play, ‘Is This A Room’
The Daily Beast, October 7, 2021
The musical ‘Six’ finally, fabulously, opens on Broadway
The Daily Beast, October 3, 2021
The Tony Awards was a night of extremely mixed messages about Broadway
The Daily Beast, September 27, 2021
‘Pass Over’ brilliantly heralds the return of the Broadway play
The Daily Beast, August 25, 2021
‘White Lotus’ star on that poop, gay roles, and being out in Hollywood
The Daily Beast, August 15, 2021
‘Merry Wives’ heralds Shakespeare’s raucous return to Central Park
The Daily Beast, August 9, 2021
Ann Dowd goes from ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ villain Aunt Lydia to ‘Enemy of the People’
The Daily Beast, July 1, 2021
New York theater returns in ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and starring you in ‘A Thousand Ways: Part Two’
The Daily Beast, June 30, 2021
The Tony Awards will finally happen, just after Broadway reopens
, May 26, 2021
Is Glenn Shephard, the ‘Below Deck Sailing Yacht’ captain, the nicest guy on reality TV?
The Daily Beast, May 14, 2021
Broadway may mandate vaccinations for audiences and workers. That’s just one reopening challenge.
The Daily Beast, May 11, 2021
With ‘Blindness,’ theater returns to New York City. And it’s brilliantly terrifying.
The Daily Beast, April 7, 2021
Paul Schindler, Gay City News’ editor in chief, retires—but he still wants the story
The Daily Beast, April 5, 2021
David Jacobs on how he created ‘Dallas’ and ‘Knots Landing’—and changed primetime TV
The Daily Beast, March 28, 2021
Broadway loves a comeback. A year since it closed, its own might be tough.
The Daily Beast, March 12, 2021
Liza Minnelli turns 75. Her famous friends have some tales to tell.
The Daily Beast, March 11, 2021
‘It’s a Sin’ gets brilliantly real about gay sex, shame, and AIDS
The Daily Beast, February 15, 2021
Theater died in 2020. Its rebirth will be suitably dramatic.
The Daily Beast, December 28, 2020
Mark Peikert used to edit Broadway’s ‘Playbill.’ He’s way happier working in gay porn.
The Daily Beast, December 12, 2020
‘The Crown’ tells some harsh truths. No wonder the royal family hates it.
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2020
Broadway star Betty Buckley wants Trump to leave her music alone, and Texas to ‘turn blue’
The Daily Beast, October 25, 2020
What ‘Circle Jerk’ reveals about gay men, white supremacy, and ‘The Hills’
The Daily Beast, October 23, 2020
The 2020 Tony Awards should be about saving theater, as well as trophies
The Daily Beast, October 15, 2020
‘Emily in Paris’: oui, c’est terrible
The Daily Beast, October 7, 2020
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle deny they are making a Netflix reality show
The Daily Beast, September 29, 2020
What Richard Nelson’s Apple family have to say about America. And what they don’t.
The Daily Beast, September 11, 2020
Broadway producer Brian Moreland on racism, fighting for change, and how theaters will reopen
The Daily Beast, August 22, 2020
Harvey Fierstein on Broadway’s ‘horrifying’ shutdown, writing his memoir—and ‘gentleman callers’
The Daily Beast, August 10, 2020
Why the gay Christmas movie ‘A Holiday I Do’ could make TV history
The Daily Beast, July 15, 2020
Donja R. Love and Carmen LoBue are bringing Black queer lives center stage—and changing theater
The Daily Beast, June 26, 2020
Rodney Hicks and Azure D. Osborne-Lee on ‘Pride Plays’ and fighting for black queer change in theater
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The Tony Awards are postponed. How will George Floyd and coronavirus impact theater’s rebirth?
The Daily Beast, June 9, 2020
Theater imagines its post-Covid future, including a socially distanced ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, May 27, 2020
Broadway League president hopes for January reopening—with full theaters and masks
The Daily Beast, May 25, 2020
How Edward Pierce, Broadway ‘Wicked’ designer, fought Covid-19—and made medical history
The Daily Beast, May 21, 2020
‘Bolero Juilliard’: inside the making of a lockdown musical miracle
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Richard Nelson’s apple family proves you can make brilliant theater on Zoom
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Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday party was the best Broadway fever dream
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Audra McDonald on Terrence McNally’s LGBTQ legacy: ‘He proudly put gay people up on stage’
The Daily Beast, March 26, 2020
Rosie O’Donnell revives her chat show, raises $500K for coronavirus-hit theater world
The Daily Beast, March 23, 2020
Andrew Rannells and other ‘Boys in the Band,’ old and new, remember Mart Crowley
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Broadway faces the cost of its coronavirus shutdown: ‘The impact will be huge. Horrible’
The Daily Beast, March 13, 2020
Comedian Drew Droege: ‘I play a lot of hateful, unlikable, awful gay people—and I love it’
The Daily Beast, March 11, 2020
The Bob Dylan musical ‘Girl From the North Country’ has been brilliantly reborn on Broadway
The Daily Beast, March 6, 2020
29 miners died in ‘Coal Country.’ This excellent play reveals the grief and anger that followed.
The Daily Beast, March 4, 2020
Lucas Hnath turns his mother’s brutal kidnapping into the stunning play ‘Dana H.’
The Daily Beast, February 25, 2020
‘Cambodian rock band’ makes music from Khmer Rouge horrors, and hero worship in ‘All the Natalie Portmans’
The Daily Beast, February 24, 2020
Ivo van Hove’s ‘West Side Story’ Broadway revival aims to shock, but ends up lost in time
The Daily Beast, February 20, 2020
‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ team up in NYC—with mixed results, and ‘Happy Birthday Doug’ tells gay truths
The Daily Beast, February 17, 2020
Jeanna de Waal on playing Princess Diana on Broadway: ‘It is done with tact. No one is playing a caricature.’
The Daily Beast, February 12, 2020
‘The Crown’ is wrong to end in 2003. It’s just when the royal family of now gets interesting.
The Daily Beast, February 1, 2020
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale take ‘Medea’ to a science lab, and Charles Busch’s brilliant ‘Lily Dare’
The Daily Beast, January 30, 2020
Jane Alexander triumphs in ‘Grand Horizons’ on Broadway, and feel the chill of ‘The Woman in Black’
The Daily Beast, January 23, 2020
Charles Fuller’s ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is a brilliant, searing indictment of racism on Broadway
The Daily Beast, January 22, 2020
‘My Name Is Lucy Barton’: Laura Linney makes a little life big on Broadway
The Daily Beast, January 15, 2020
Jerry Herman, ‘Broadway’s greatest,’ remembered by Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, and other stars
The Daily Beast, December 27, 2019
If you love 1980s British pop music and ‘Once,’ you will love ‘Sing Street’
The Daily Beast, December 16, 2019
The missing magic in Harry Connick Jr.’s Broadway tribute to Cole Porter
The Daily Beast, December 13, 2019
The loud life lessons of ‘Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven’
The Daily Beast, December 10, 2019
Alanis Morissette conquers Broadway with brilliant, powerful ‘Jagged Little Pill’ jukebox musical
The Daily Beast, December 5, 2019
The gay kiss in ‘Twinkle all the Way’ could herald a Lifetime Christmas movie revolution
The Daily Beast, November 30, 2019
‘A Bright Room Called Day’: Tony Kushner connects Hitler, Reagan, and Trump; and ‘Fefu and Her Friends’
The Daily Beast, November 26, 2019
‘A Christmas Carol’ on Broadway is the gift we need right now, with a Scrooge who seems familiar
The Daily Beast, November 20, 2019
‘History of Violence’: Edouard Louis’ book becomes a shocking play about rape, sexuality, and racism
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2019
‘The Inheritance’ on Broadway: an epic story of gay ghosts, for good and bad
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2019
‘Slava’s Snowshow’: brilliant clowns provide the messiest fun you can have on Broadway
The Daily Beast, November 15, 2019
When NYC’s racial tensions exploded: Michael Benjamin Washington excels in ‘Fires in the Mirror’
The Daily Beast, November 12, 2019
Adrienne Warren is simply the best in ‘Tina: The Tina Turner Musical’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, November 8, 2019
The brilliant final episode of ‘The Affair’ shocks with its biggest twist: a happy ending
The Daily Beast, November 4, 2019
Are you ready to eat? ‘Seared’ and ‘The Michaels’ provide a feast of delicious theater
The Daily Beast, October 29, 2019
Here’s a fast ‘Macbeth,’ with no witches, and ‘For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad’
The Daily Beast, October 27, 2019
‘Scotland, PA’: the musical that ‘Macbeth’ did not need
The Daily Beast, October 23, 2019
The best raised voices return from the past: Harvey Fierstein in ‘Bella Bella,’ and ‘For Colored Girls’
The Daily Beast, October 23, 2019
David Byrne reveals his powerful vision of ‘American Utopia’ on Broadway—and some Talking Heads classics, too
The Daily Beast, October 21, 2019
Mary-Louise Parker confronts ‘The Sound Inside,’ and—feed me!—‘Little Shop of Horrors’ is back for blood
The Daily Beast, October 18, 2019
Don’t let ‘The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical’ steal your Broadway dollars
The Daily Beast, October 17, 2019
Marisa Tomei’s grief turns to lust in ‘The Rose Tattoo,’ Hillary Clinton gets a Chinese lesson in ‘Soft Power’
The Daily Beast, October 15, 2019
Brian Cox on Succession’s season 2 finale, Trump, Murdoch, Scottish independence, and playing LBJ
The Daily Beast, October 14, 2019
Tracy Letts’ ‘Linda Vista’: a liberal on the streets, a douchebag between the sheets
The Daily Beast, October 11, 2019
Joshua Henry is ‘The Wrong Man,’ with one of the best singing voices in theater
The Daily Beast, October 9, 2019
‘Slave Play’ on Broadway: bigger, brasher, and still a theatrical explosion
The Daily Beast, October 6, 2019
‘Downton Abbey’ fans deserve much more than the lazy self-indulgence of ‘Downton Abbey,’ the movie
The Daily Beast, October 6, 2019
‘Freestyle Love Supreme’: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-‘Hamilton’ rap show is a Broadway delight
The Daily Beast, October 3, 2019
‘The Height of the Storm’ on Broadway: Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce play both dead and alive
The Daily Beast, September 25, 2019
Jeremy O. Harris on the success of ‘Slave Play’—and why he doesn’t ‘trust’ Broadway on race
The Daily Beast, September 18, 2019
Derren Brown’s ‘Secret’ on Broadway: an amazing show of illusion and gasps (yours)
The Daily Beast, September 15, 2019
Tamron Hall: NBC fired me—even if they call it ‘demoted’
The Daily Beast, September 9, 2019
‘Betrayal’ on Broadway: Tom Hiddleston excels in Harold Pinter’s very British adultery drama
The Daily Beast, September 6, 2019
In ‘Judy,’ Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland brilliantly shows how to make an icon human
The Daily Beast, September 5, 2019
See us, trust us, employ us: Broadway’s women of color on confronting racism—and reshaping theater
The Daily Beast, August 29, 2019
‘The Affair’ returns for its final season — and to drive its fans nuts
The Daily Beast, August 25, 2019
This ‘Young and the Restless’ ‘Teriah’ kiss is one of TV’s best LGBTQ moments of the year
The Daily Beast, August 22, 2019
‘Sea Wall/A Life’: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge confront life and death on Broadway
The Daily Beast, August 9, 2019
‘Bat Out of Hell,’ the Meat Loaf musical, is—predictably—completely insane
The Daily Beast, August 9, 2019
Barry Manilow on Broadway: ‘who could ask for more?’ A sea of happy screams and glow sticks
The Daily Beast, August 1, 2019
Race, sexuality, and ‘The Lion King’: how Michael R. Jackson found success through ‘A Strange Loop’
The Daily Beast, July 29, 2019
HBO’s ‘Years and Years’—with its near-future, personal and global dramas—is the best thing on TV
The Daily Beast, July 21, 2019
‘Mojada’: immigration becomes a Greek tragedy
The Daily Beast, July 17, 2019
‘The Rolling Stone’ means well, but ignores Uganda’s recent LGBT history
The Daily Beast, July 16, 2019
Rita Rudner on getting ‘cut’ by Bob Fosse, finding her comedy voice, sexism, and NBC’s ‘disgraceful’ new show
The Daily Beast, July 14, 2019
Toni Stone, history-making baseball legend, hits a home run on stage
The Daily Beast, June 20, 2019
Suicide, guns, and song: how Jack Bartholet crafts cabaret from family tragedy—and his own fury
The Daily Beast, June 19, 2019
‘Much Ado About Nothing’: a Shakespeare classic celebrates its black power in Central Park
The Daily Beast, June 12, 2019
‘Hadestown’ and ‘The Ferryman’ win big at the Tony Awards—and Ali Stroker makes history
The Daily Beast, June 10, 2019
‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ star Celia Keenan-Bolger on Harper Lee’s sexuality, grief, and Tony award desire
The Daily Beast, June 6, 2019
‘Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune’: Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon’s chemistry burns up Broadway
The Daily Beast, May 30, 2019
Tear it apart, and pile the bodies high: theater designers reveal how to shock on stage
The Daily Beast, May 26, 2019
Architect Daniel Libeskind: How to transform horror into art, from Auschwitz and the Holocaust to 9/11
The Daily Beast, May 23, 2019
Heidi Schreck wants Tony awards, and Trump isn’t welcome: how to make a Broadway hit from the Constitution
The Daily Beast, May 10, 2019
Whatever camp is, you won’t find it in the Met’s ‘Camp’ exhibit
The Daily Beast, May 7, 2019
After Hedwig: John Cameron Mitchell on his father’s bisexuality, his tragic ‘anthem,’ and LGBT life under Trump
The Daily Beast, May 6, 2019
Nazi horrors of Auschwitz: this stark exhibit reveals what it was like to live and die in the WW2 concentration camp
The Daily Beast, May 4, 2019
2019 Tony award nominations: change is coming to Broadway—slowly
The Daily Beast, April 30, 2019
Rightor Doyle was a dominatrix’s bodyguard. He turned the experience into Netflix’s ‘Bonding’
The Daily Beast, April 30, 2019
Broadway star André De Shields on ‘Hadestown,’ Tony awards, racism, sexuality, and fulfilling his parents’ dreams
The Daily Beast, April 29, 2019
‘Beetlejuice’ on Broadway: it was a horror show. Now it feels like a hit.
The Daily Beast, April 25, 2019
‘Ink’ on Broadway: how Rupert Murdoch’s ‘Sun’ changed tabloids—and Britain—forever
The Daily Beast, April 24, 2019
‘Tootsie’ on Broadway: a cross-dressing classic gets a large spoonful of woke
The Daily Beast, April 23, 2019
Annette Bening in ‘All My Sons’: Arthur Miller’s postwar tragedy lands too quietly on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 22, 2019
Nathan Lane cleans up Broadway’s biggest pile of dead bodies in ‘Gary: a Sequel to Titus Andronicus’
The Daily Beast, April 21, 2019
Laurie Metcalf plays Hillary Clinton, presidential loser. Plus, ‘Socrates’ at the Public.
The Daily Beast, April 18, 2019
‘Hadestown’: the Broadway musical that takes its sweet-sounding time going to hell and back
The Daily Beast, April 17, 2019
‘Burn This’: Adam Driver & Keri Russell’s big Broadway blow-up
The Daily Beast, April 16, 2019
‘Oklahoma!’ on Broadway: creator and cast reveal how to reimagine a classic
The Daily Beast, April 15, 2019
‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’ loses Marilyn Monroe—and its bored Hudson Yards audience
The Daily Beast, April 9, 2019
This ‘Oklahoma!’ on Broadway is dark and different—brilliantly so
The Daily Beast, April 7, 2019
How 9/11 musical ‘Come From Away’ conquered the world—but don’t expect Hollywood stars in the movie
The Daily Beast, April 5, 2019
Kathie Lee Gifford’s ‘Today’ show farewell: God, wine, Hoda, and shameless self-promotion
The Daily Beast, April 5, 2019
Glenda Jackson in Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ on Broadway: tragedy and a lot of Trump-era sighing
The Daily Beast, April 4, 2019
‘What the Constitution Means to Me’: how Heidi Schreck wins the argument on Broadway
The Daily Beast, March 31, 2019
Once upon a time, this is what Lehman Brothers stood for
The Daily Beast, March 28, 2019
The Temptations Broadway jukebox musical, ‘Ain’t Too Proud,’ is a gold-standard triumph
The Daily Beast, March 21, 2019
This is what the ‘White Noise’ of racism and privilege really sounds like
The Daily Beast, March 20, 2019
Watch out. John Guare’s ‘Nantucket Sleigh Ride’ will drag you into deep water
The Daily Beast, March 18, 2019
‘Kiss Me, Kate’? In this Broadway revival she’ll also kick your butt
The Daily Beast, March 14, 2019
Isabelle Huppert and Chris Noth: madness, marriage, and mystery in ‘The Mother’
The Daily Beast, March 11, 2019
The bitter happy pills of ‘Be More Chill’ on Broadway may give you a familiar downer
The Daily Beast, March 10, 2019
Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s ‘Fleabag’ Is a Great TV Show, And Even More Intense On Stage
The Daily Beast, March 7, 2019
In Alan Cumming’s ‘Daddy’ and ‘The Cake,’ LGBT couples get real—and unreal
The Daily Beast, March 5, 2019
Kate Baldwin shines in ‘Superhero,’ a musical missing a few magical powers
The Daily Beast, February 28, 2019
When ‘Hurricane Diane’ hits, no desperate Housewives are safe
The Daily Beast, February 27, 2019
Orson Welles terrified Frank Beacham—then changed his life forever
The Daily Beast, February 26, 2019
Jake Gyllenhaal faces a matter of life and death in ‘Sea Wall / A Life’
The Daily Beast, February 14, 2019
How did Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ begin? Go see the brilliant ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’
The Daily Beast, February 12, 2019
Tom Ford delivers anti-Trump border wall message at New York Fashion Week
The Daily Beast, February 7, 2019
Richard White was a homeless kid. Then, with a tuba, he made music history
The Daily Beast, February 5, 2019
Inside Michael C. Hall’s anti-advertising Skittles Super Bowl commercial on Broadway
The Daily Beast, February 3, 2019
Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano wrestle to the death in ‘True West’
The Daily Beast, January 24, 2019
If you love ‘The Great Gatsby,’ you need to see the epic, 8-hour ‘Gatz’
The Daily Beast, January 22, 2019
R.I.P. Carol Channing: how the ‘Hello, Dolly!’ star became the queen of Broadway
The Daily Beast, January 15, 2019
Tarell Alvin McCraney won an Oscar. ‘Choir Boy’ marks his Broadway debut.
The Daily Beast, January 8, 2019
In ‘Nutcracker Rouge,’ ‘The Nutcracker’ gets a crazy, sexy makeover
The Daily Beast, December 31, 2018
How many ‘gay plays’ can Broadway sustain? Michael Urie on ‘Torch Song’ closing and coming out in Hollywood
The Daily Beast, December 20, 2018
Aaron Sorkin’s radical remake of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
The Daily Beast, December 13, 2018
‘Clueless, The Musical’ sadly lives up to its name
The Daily Beast, December 12, 2018
Kathie Lee Gifford just broke up daytime TV’s best double act on NBC’s ‘Today’
The Daily Beast, December 11, 2018
‘Network’ on Broadway: Bryan Cranston’s must-see media meltdown
The Daily Beast, December 6, 2018
‘The Cher Show’ on Broadway has lights, energy, drama, camp, but no Cher
The Daily Beast, December 3, 2018
‘Pose’ star Ryan Jamaal Swain on abuse, fame, LGBT history, and defining as ‘queer’
The Daily Beast, December 3, 2018
They were homeless. Now they’re center stage at the opera: Meet New York City’s ‘Breaking Ground’ choir
The Daily Beast, November 28, 2018
‘The Hard Problem’: how to understand, and not understand, Tom Stoppard
The Daily Beast, November 19, 2018
Next stop, Broadway? The brilliant ‘Downstairs’ and ‘All Is Calm’
The Daily Beast, November 18, 2018
‘The Prom’ on Broadway shows the limitations of LGBT stories on stage
The Daily Beast, November 15, 2018
Click here for sex, love, and tragedy in ‘Wild Goose Dreams’
The Daily Beast, November 14, 2018
‘The Other Josh Cohen’ has its modest heart in the right place
The Daily Beast, November 12, 2018
Mike Birbiglia and Michael C. Hall Star in Two Very Different Theatrical Monologues
The Daily Beast, November 11, 2018
For Desiree Akhavan, Hulu’s comedy-drama ‘The Bisexual’ is very personal
The Daily Beast, November 10, 2018
Michael C. Hall on his ‘fluid’ sexuality, ‘Dexter,’ death, and David Bowie
The Daily Beast, November 9, 2018
‘King Kong’ on Broadway: A Great Ape Deserves a Greater Story
The Daily Beast, November 8, 2018
The Wild World of ‘Usual Girls’: Sex, Misogyny, Racism, and Cuddly Toys
The Daily Beast, November 5, 2018
Kerry Washington and the Wasted Potential of ‘American Son’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, November 4, 2018
How the facts get stretched in Broadway’s ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’
The Daily Beast, November 3, 2018
Michael Urie Excels in ‘Torch Song,’ Harvey Fierstein’s Emphatic Salvo of Gay Pride
The Daily Beast, November 1, 2018
Nico Muhly composed a revolution in classical music. He hopes Beyoncé is listening.
The Daily Beast, October 30, 2018
‘The Niceties’ Turns an Elite University Into a Beliefs Battleground
The Daily Beast, October 25, 2018
The Problem With ‘India Pale Ale’: It Needs Fewer Pirates, More Anger
The Daily Beast, October 23, 2018
Welcome Back to the African ‘Mean Girls’
The Daily Beast, October 22, 2018
Jez Butterworth’s ‘The Ferryman’ Sets a Gold Standard for Broadway Plays
The Daily Beast, October 21, 2018
The Night That Gloria Steinem Electrified ‘Gloria Steinem: A Life’
The Daily Beast, October 18, 2018
Daniel Radcliffe Brilliantly Exposes ‘The Lifespan of a Fact’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, October 18, 2018
Glenn Close Is the ‘Mother of the Maid,’ Ready With a Fierce Hug
The Daily Beast, October 17, 2018
In ‘Apologia,’ Stockard Channing Is Having a Party. Approach With Caution.
The Daily Beast, October 16, 2018
In ‘Fireflies,’ Racism, Sexuality, and a 1960s Inferno
The Daily Beast, October 15, 2018
Aasif Mandvi’s Immigration Dream Meets Reality in ‘Sakina’s Restaurant’
The Daily Beast, October 14, 2018
The Fight Against Racism In 1960s Texas Is Close To Home In ‘Travisville’
The Daily Beast, October 12, 2018
‘Midnight at the Never Get’ Is a Gay-Themed Play Lost in Time
The Daily Beast, October 11, 2018
Can ‘Oklahoma!’ Be Dark? Yes, Brilliantly, Intelligently So.
The Daily Beast, October 7, 2018
Want to Make Sense of Samuel Beckett? Bill Irwin Shows the Way
The Daily Beast, October 3, 2018
Bob Dylan’s songs as you’ve never heard them in ‘Girl From the North Country’
The Daily Beast, October 1, 2018
Snookered: ‘The Nap’ Features the Worst British Accents on Broadway
The Daily Beast, September 27, 2018
Janet McTeer Tears Up Broadway, Brilliantly, in ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’
The Daily Beast, September 25, 2018
‘I Was Most Alive With You’ Is About Much More Than Addiction
The Daily Beast, September 24, 2018
Machiavelli With a Sewing Machine: Edie Falco in ‘The True’
The Daily Beast, September 20, 2018
Inside Bert and Ernie’s all-too-brief moment of gay liberation
The Daily Beast, September 18, 2018
One Actor, 24 Characters: ‘Private Peaceful’ Is an Intense Tour de Force
The Daily Beast, September 6, 2018
Craig Melvin May Bring a Welcome Bite to NBC’s ‘Today’
The Daily Beast, September 4, 2018
Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’: The Best Soap Opera in Book Form
The Daily Beast, September 4, 2018
Hey MTV, a ‘Hills’ Reboot Without Lauren Sounds, Like, Totally Sucky
The Daily Beast, August 22, 2018
No Justice for Alison, Yet: ‘The Affair’ Season 4 Finale
The Daily Beast, August 20, 2018
Big Mistake. Huge. ‘Pretty Woman: The Musical’ Has Little of the Movie’s Magic.
The Daily Beast, August 16, 2018
It’s Hollywood That Has a Big LGBT Problem—Not Ruby Rose
The Daily Beast, August 15, 2018
Who killed Alison Bailey, revealed: ‘The Affair’ season 4, episode 9
The Daily Beast, August 13, 2018
Jersey Boys Refuse to Grow Up: Review of ‘Gettin’ the Band Back Together’
The Daily Beast, August 13, 2018
‘Reel in the closet’: secret LGBT histories from the ‘40s to Stonewall and beyond caught on vintage home video
The Daily Beast, August 11, 2018
Beyoncé’s Vogue Cover Is Fabulous. And It’s an Insult to Journalism.
The Daily Beast, August 6, 2018
‘The Affair’ kills off a main character (we think): season 4, episode 8 recap
The Daily Beast, August 5, 2018
In ‘This American Wife,’ Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives’ Get the Play They Deserve
The Daily Beast, August 3, 2018
Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ Gets a Rousing Musical Makeover
The Daily Beast, July 31, 2018
It’s the end of ‘The Affair’: recap, season 4, episode 7
The Daily Beast, July 29, 2018
Their Lips Aren’t Sealed: The Go-Go’s Score a Queer Broadway Hit in ‘Head Over Heels’
The Daily Beast, July 26, 2018
The Lesson of ‘This Ain’t No Disco’? Please, No More Studio 54
The Daily Beast, July 24, 2018
‘The Affair’ S4E6 recap: the middle seat on a plane is always the worst
The Daily Beast, July 22, 2018
Ivo van Hove’s ‘The Damned’ Is Shocking, but Predictably So
The Daily Beast, July 18, 2018
‘Who the hell do I think I am?’: Joel Grey on coming out, Cabaret, and his Yiddish ‘Fiddler’
The Daily Beast, July 18, 2018
Review: Hear Coney Island’s Heroic Lion Roar in ‘Fire in Dreamland’
The Daily Beast, July 16, 2018
‘The Affair,’ S4E5 recap: drive, drive against the dying of the light
The Daily Beast, July 15, 2018
‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in Yiddish Is a Moving Triumph
The Daily Beast, July 15, 2018
Review: Just Who Is Mary Page Marlowe? Tracy Letts Is and Isn’t Saying
The Daily Beast, July 12, 2018
The sea, the sea: the heart and soul of ‘The Affair,’ episode S4E4 recap
The Daily Beast, July 8, 2018
The Syrian Migrant and British Photographer Lost in War: Review of ‘Borders’
The Daily Beast, July 5, 2018
Race, cancer, and a night to remember: recap ‘The Affair,’ S4E3
The Daily Beast, July 1, 2018
A Foggy Mind Meets Musical: Review, ‘On a Clear Day You Can See Forever’
The Daily Beast, June 28, 2018
Tragedy in Strong Voices: ‘Girls & Boys’ and ‘Carmen Jones’
The Daily Beast, June 27, 2018
Reviews: LGBT Equality and Murderous Madness in ‘Log Cabin’ and ‘Cyprus Avenue’
The Daily Beast, June 25, 2018
Hello, certain disaster. We’re ready for you: recap, ‘The Affair’ season 4, episode 2
The Daily Beast, June 24, 2018
Idina Menzel and a Gay Fashion Designer’s Age-Gap Relationship in ‘Skintight’
The Daily Beast, June 21, 2018
The Must-See ‘Othello’ at Shakespeare in the Park; Racism and Power in ‘Pass Over’
The Daily Beast, June 18, 2018
Recap: ‘The Affair’ is back, and now it’s bicoastal
The Daily Beast, June 18, 2018
‘F*ck Trump’: Robert De Niro and the Loud Message of the Tony Awards
The Daily Beast, June 11, 2018
The Hidden Devil in ‘The Great Gatsby’: Review of ‘Dan Cody’s Yacht’
The Daily Beast, June 6, 2018
Meet ‘Fraver,’ king of Broadway’s most memorable posters
The Daily Beast, June 2, 2018
‘The Boys in the Band’ Is Perfectly Lost in LGBT Time
The Daily Beast, May 31, 2018
How landmark LGBT movie ‘Brokeback Mountain’ became an opera
The Daily Beast, May 29, 2018
Owen Smith, the ‘New Yorker’ illustrator who killed Christmas
The Daily Beast, May 26, 2018
Review: Fierce Laughs, Fierce Feelings in ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’
The Daily Beast, May 20, 2018
Lesley Manville’s Bravura Performance in BAM’s ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
The Daily Beast, May 13, 2018
Who, and What, Do You Believe In? The Big Questions of ‘Dance Nation’ and ‘Light Shining in Buckinghamshire’
The Daily Beast, May 7, 2018
How ‘217 Boxes’ reveals John E. Fryer, the man in the mask who changed LGBT rights forever
The Daily Beast, May 5, 2018
Review: Tennessee Williams’ ‘Summer and Smoke’ Gets Its Sublime Moment in the Sun
The Daily Beast, May 3, 2018
Tony nominee Glenda Jackson on awards, Jeremy Corbyn, anti-semitism, and dancing with Fred Astaire
The Daily Beast, May 1, 2018
The Tony Awards: Who Got Nominated, And Who Got Snubbed
The Daily Beast, May 1, 2018
Review: Denzel Washington and the Slow Agony of ‘The Iceman Cometh’
The Daily Beast, April 26, 2018
Review: A ‘Saint Joan’ That Needs More Belief and Burning Passion
The Daily Beast, April 25, 2018
Big Questions, Big Fun: Tom Stoppard’s ‘Travesties’ Returns to Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 24, 2018
Enough Is Enough: The Bizarre, Bonkers ‘Donna Summer Musical’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 23, 2018
‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ on Broadway Is a Stunning, Magical Tour de Force
The Daily Beast, April 22, 2018
‘My Fair Lady’ Finally Gets Its #MeToo Ending. Somewhere, George Bernard Shaw Is Applauding
The Daily Beast, April 19, 2018
The Devil Inside Matthew Broderick: Reviews of ‘The Seafarer’ and ‘Mlima’s Tale’
The Daily Beast, April 18, 2018
‘ER’ star Anthony Edwards: I don’t see my childhood sexual abuse as a ‘tragedy’
The Daily Beast, April 17, 2018
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s New ‘King Lear’ Is Pretty Funny for a Great Shakespearean Tragedy
The Daily Beast, April 12, 2018
Review: The Brilliantly Bitter Pill of ‘Carousel’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, April 12, 2018
Sharpen Your Senses to Really Hear ‘Children of a Lesser God’
The Daily Beast, April 11, 2018
Brandon Victor Dixon on ‘Jesus Christ Superstar,’ racism, Broadway, Mike Pence, and glittering muscles
The Daily Beast, April 11, 2018
An-All Woman Road Trip, Also Starring Trump’s Ghost: Review of ‘Miss You Like Hell’
The Daily Beast, April 10, 2018
‘This Flat Earth’ Brings a School Massacre to the Stage
The Daily Beast, April 9, 2018
It’s Fetch. But It Could Be Fetcher: Review of Tina Fey’s ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway
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‘Real Housewife’ Luann de Lesseps on jail, blackface, and getting groped by Russell Simmons
The Daily Beast, April 6, 2018
How to Put Ta-Nehisi Coates On Stage: Review of ‘Between the World and Me’
The Daily Beast, April 3, 2018
Meet Christopher Massimine, the ‘nice goy’ running the National Yiddish Theatre
The Daily Beast, March 31, 2018
Glenda Jackson Is Speaking. Tony Awards Voters Should Listen: Review of ‘Three Tall Women’
The Daily Beast, March 29, 2018
Billie Piper’s Pain in ‘Yerma’ Stunningly Explodes in a Box
The Daily Beast, March 28, 2018
Captain America Turns Bad Cop: Review of Chris Evans in ‘Lobby Hero’
The Daily Beast, March 26, 2018
Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in America’: Brilliant, Shattering, and Back on Broadway
The Daily Beast, March 25, 2018
Billie Piper: the ‘Doctor Who’ star rocks New York theater in ‘Yerma’
The Daily Beast, March 24, 2018
Review: ‘Frozen’ on Broadway Needs to Let It Go
The Daily Beast, March 22, 2018
Laurie Metcalf: It’s so ‘surreal’ to return to ‘Roseanne’
The Daily Beast, March 22, 2018
In ‘Prurience,’ take your seat for group therapy that is also theater
The Daily Beast, March 17, 2018
Only Diehard Jimmy Buffett Fans Should ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ on Broadway
The Daily Beast, March 15, 2018
This Is What White Middle-Class Race Hypocrisy Looks Like: Review of ‘Admissions’
The Daily Beast, March 12, 2018
Givenchy’s Brilliance Was More Than ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’
The Daily Beast, March 12, 2018
‘Wonder Woman’ Lynda Carter: this is my #MeToo story
The Daily Beast, March 12, 2018
Jay Leno pays tribute to the ‘great comic mind’ of Bob Smith
The Daily Beast, March 8, 2018
Review: Bruce Norris’ ‘The Low Road’: Farcical, Tragic, and Extremely Long
The Daily Beast, March 7, 2018
The Artist Destroying a Robert Rauschenberg Print—To Save Art
The Daily Beast, March 3, 2018
Reviews: ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Gets a Taylor Trensch Makeover; The Magic of ‘Flight’
The Daily Beast, March 3, 2018
Ryan Seacrest Goes Silent on Sexual-Assault Allegations on ABC’s ‘Live!’
The Daily Beast, February 28, 2018
Jerry Springer: my TV show is ‘stupid,’ Trump is ‘un-American,’ and we need gun control
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‘My gay friends were hacked to death in Dhaka. I escaped.’
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Trump? Brand Awareness? What Made Bravo’s ‘Real Housewives of New York’ Stop Arguing?
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Meet Shula and Harry, the brilliant New York City seniors remaking Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’
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Scene by Scene, This Is What Makes the Babadook Such an LGBT Icon
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Welcome to Annie Baker’s World of Unseen Horrors: Review of ‘The Antipodes’
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Off-Broadway Reaches for the Stars: Reviews of ‘The Light Years’ and ‘The Outer Space’
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Review: A Radical and Shattering ‘Glass Menagerie,’ Starring Sally Field, Storms Broadway
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David Mamet’s ‘The Penitent’ and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘Everybody’: So, This Is How We Will Die
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The Modern Gay Way to Lose Out in Love: Review of ‘Significant Other’ on Broadway
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Review: Treat Yourself To Sweeney Todd’s Brilliant Feast of Blood, Pie and Mash
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The Meaning of Life, Plus Bubble Machine: Review of ‘Wakey, Wakey’
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Broadway Triumph: Review of Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Sunday in the Park With George’
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When Hillary Clinton Met Norma Desmond: Review of ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway
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‘War and Peace’ Comes to Broadway in ‘Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812’
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At 77, Vietnam Veteran Denis Arndt Finally Takes His Broadway Bow
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Brilliant Off-Broadway Play ‘The Effect’ Asks: Is It Love if You’re Both on Drugs?
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