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  1. finale thoughts
    Jennifer Ehle Based Her Dead Ringers Investor on Ayn RandAnd thinks Rebecca Parker knows exactly what happened in the finale.
  2. theater review
    Lorraine Hansberry on Hashtag Activism: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s WindowOscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in her play about fashionable commitment to social change.
  3. making it
    How Mimi Lien Designed a Stage Built for BeheadingsThe set designer’s inspiration for Sweeney Todd’s Broadway revival came straight out of Sondheim’s “great black pit” lyric.
  4. theater review
    New York, New York Barely Scratches the Surface of New York, New YorkIt doesn’t make it here.
  5. theater review
    Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht Find Depth in the Small Scale of Summer, 1976David Auburn just lets them talk, and something great happens.
  6. theater review
    The Playing’s the Thing: Sean Hayes Shows Range in Good Night, OscarDelivering quips, piano virtuosity, and a little too much exposition.
  7. theater review
    Jodie Comer Makes a Winning Case for Prima FacieThe Killing Eve star’s performance gives life to a basic script.
  8. theater review
    The Thanksgiving Play’s Satire Runs ShortGood intentions go awry — both in the script and otherwise.
  9. theater review
    Peter Pan Goes Wrong Never Grows Up (But That’s Okay)Backstage farce with a just enough mild head trauma.
  10. chat room
    Succession’s Zoë Winters on Kerry’s Apartment Showdown and Failed ATN AuditionPlus, how she schemed her way into Logan’s ear: “I wanted Kerry inserting herself into conversations and rooms where she shouldn’t necessarily be.”
  11. theater review
    Camelot Is Back, Achieving a Wisp of GloryThe sorcery is gone, and everyone talks too much, but Lerner and Loewe knew their majesty.
  12. theater review
    On Broadway, Fat Ham Keeps You at a Distance From the Cookout“Ease is the point, even though it keeps being too easy.”
  13. theater review
    White Girl in Danger Is a Bloody, Messy Take on the SoapMichael R. Jackson’s Strange Loop follow-up is a fascinating fiasco.
  14. spoilers
    Brian Cox Is Happy You Know That About Logan Roy Now“I’ve never been able to keep secrets.”
  15. timing
    How Long Does It Take the Roy Siblings to Tell Connor?Or think of him, for that matter?
  16. miscast
    Watch Jordan E. Cooper’s Miscast Performance of ‘The Ladies Who Lunch’The Ain’t No Mo’ playwright gives you full fur-coat Sondheim.
  17. theater review
    At Shucked, the Corniness Is as High as an Elephant’s EyeAnd this musical aspires to nothing more or less complex than that.
  18. theater review
    Life of Pi Is Best When Its Fangs Are VisibleNeeds more feral tigerishness, less cat-on-your-lap warmth.
  19. theater review
    A Sweeney Todd That Leans Into the Great Black PitSexual dynamics and soot dominate the revival.
  20. auxiliary power
    Time to Brush Up on Succession’s Assistants, Aides, and AttachésWhich of the Roys’ many suit-wearing advisers is closest to power?
  21. theater review
    If Only Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella Were WorseNeither good nor so bad it’s good.
  22. theater review
    Dancin’ Slinks Back to Town, Aching to Seduce YouA revised revival of the 1978 revue that goes all out.
  23. theater review
    Parade Marches Back In, Intent on Its Own RelevanceBen Platt and Micaela Diamond star in the revival of this musical about antisemitism in the Deep South.
  24. theater review
    The Harder They Come Tries to Fit Too Much OnstageThe overstuffed Jimmy Cliff musical barely has time for its own songs.
  25. theater review
    All in this Together: How to Defend Yourself and The Coast StarlightA classic playwrighting gambit: trap a bunch of people in one small space and brew up some trouble.
  26. highs and lows
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2023 OscarsJenny the Donkey! David Byrne hot-dog fingers! An Oscar for Michelle Yeoh! What more could you want? (An Oscar for Angela Bassett.)
  27. rankings
    Poker Face’s Best Guest Stars, RankedSo many suspects, so many character actors!
  28. theater review
    Gut-Renovating A Doll’s House With Jessica ChastainSit-down, stripped-down Ibsen.
  29. emergency discussion
    History of the World, Part II’s Beautiful Commitment to StupidityLet’s celebrate how surprising and impressive it is to see a show lean this hard into total idiocy.
  30. theater review
    Better Living Through Chlorophyll in The TreesIf you were a tree, you might want to be this kind.
  31. theater review
    Love Pulls You CloseAlexander Zeldin’s drama about Londoners in temporary housing comes to New York.
  32. theater review
    The Seagull Heads for the ShawangunksParker Posey stars in this update of Chekhov, swapping familiar New York intelligentsia types for the Russian bourgeoisie.
  33. theater review
    Ritual Healing in Letters From Max and Black OdysseyTwo plays take on existential journeys.
  34. by order of the king
    ‘I Still Don’t Know What It Was’An oral history of Kings, the ambitious, expensive, and admittedly weird drama on which NBC bet its prestige-TV future and lost.
  35. the industry
    The New Leading Men in Our LivesMeet the next class of actors who will be dominating screens (and hearts) for the foreseeable future.
  36. theater review
    Hellfire at Hobby Lobby in A Bright New BoiseSamuel D. Hunter’s early play returns to the New York stage.
  37. theater review
    In The Wanderers, Love Complicated by Page and ScreenA beguiling script and a meta turn by Katie Holmes are let down by a workaday production.
  38. mycology
    Why Not Simply Eat The Last of Us Fungus?It looks tasty!
  39. theater review
    The Mischievous Wolf Play Has Sharp TeethIt blurs its factual universe into a fictional one. Plus: ‘Cornelia Street’ at the Atlantic.
  40. theater
    Lorraine Hansberry Saw It ComingHer nearly forgotten play The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window resurfaces at BAM, now with Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan.
  41. theater review
    Pictures From Home, Without Sharp FocusA play based on Larry Sultan’s incisive photos of his parents is a little too warm and soft.
  42. theater review
    Lucy and Endgame Venture Into Extreme CaretakingThe apocalypse is coming from inside the house.
  43. close read
    The Empty Sentiment of The Last of UsIn imitating the rhythms of prestige TV, the video-game adaptation loses its emotional center.
  44. endings
    Let’s Tálk About the Ending of TárIt’s hilárious.
  45. theater review
    The Appointment Is a Fetal Fantasia on National ThemesWhere the unborn sing, dance, and do crowd work.
  46. cancellations
    Gossip Girl DethronedThe HBO Max series will end after two seasons.
  47. casting
    Gummer Mother Joins Only Murders in the BuildingReverse nepotism?
  48. theater review
    When Online Drama Begets Stage DramaSeven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner and Your Sexts Are Shit will have you wondering, yet again, about being extremely online.
  49. thank you for the musical
    Amanda Seyfried Resurfaces As Part of a Thelma & Louise Musical WorkshopSeyfried was deep in the process of working on the project and missed the Golden Globes.
  50. exit interview
    ‘We Only Ever Talk About It in Terms of What Makes Us Laugh’I Hate Suzie Too co-creator Lucy Prebble dissects Suzie Pickles’s latest breakdown.
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