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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. theater review
    Two Kings, Not Much Pleasure: The CollaborationWarhol and Basquiat, painted by numbers.
  4. theater review
    King Lear, But Rent Controlled: Between Riverside and CrazyA very New York tale of eviction and inheritance.
  5. the year of the nepo baby
    Nobody Loves a Nepo Baby Like Ryan MurphyIn his series American Horror Story, the super-producer can’t help but sprinkle insider youths with recognizable last names into the credits.
  6. the year of the nepo baby
    Where Should You Send Your Nepo Baby to High School?They can’t just go anywhere a normal kid would go.
  7. theater review
    Putting the Unsaid at the Center: The Far Country and Des MoinesLloyd Suh and Denis Johnson, in very different ways, try to let the audience fill in the blank spaces.
  8. theater review
    What’s to Discuss, Old Friends? Merrily We Roll Along Is Back.Maria Friedman’s revival, starring Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe, makes the grade.
  9. theater review
    Well, Nobody’s Perfect: Some Like It Hot on BroadwayAn adaptation that has everything going for it except heat.
  10. best of 2022
    The Best Theater of 2022We’ll never return to whatever normal was, but there’s been lots to root for amid the flux.
  11. theater review
    Adrienne Kennedy Goes Big: Ohio State Murders on BroadwayAudra McDonald performing Adrienne Kennedy is almost everything a production needs. Almost.
  12. trailer mix
    Billie Piper Attempts a Comeback in the Trailer for I Hate Suzie TooThe “anti-Christmas special” premieres on HBO Max December 22.
  13. theater
    Becky Nurse of Salem’s Dark Brew of Witchery and Dunkin’Deirdre O’Connell nearly holds together Sarah Ruhl’s play set in modern Salem.
  14. emergency discussion
    How Is His Dark Materials Going to Pull This Off?The series’ final season takes on the difficult task of translating many heady, absurd, and arguably heretical elements from The Amber Spyglass.
  15. theater review
    I Am, I Said (I Guess): A Beautiful NoiseIf you can experience a dopamine hit from singing along to “Sweet Caroline” anywhere in America, why is this even happening in the Broadhurst?
  16. theater review
    Ain’t No Mo’ Takes a Jubilantly Unrespectable Flight to BroadwayJordan E. Cooper’s satire doesn’t button up in a bigger venue.
  17. chat room
    Leo Woodall Needed Some Time to Digest That White Lotus Reveal“I’d been told I might have a rumble and tumble with a couple of characters, but I didn’t know who.”
  18. theater review
    KPOP Offers a Not-Actually-All-Access PassA musical about making it big feels neutered by its own backstage process.
  19. theater review
    A Christmas Carol, Heavy on the NightmaresJefferson Mays plays 50 characters, starting with Marley and Scrooge.
  20. dos jager bombs
    Adam DiMarco and Haley Lu Richardson Are Reading Your White Lotus Theories“They were like, ‘If Portia doesn’t get on this she deserves to be one of the people in a body bag.’”
  21. theater review
    In & Juliet, Verona Goes Pop!Power pop as empowerment, Renaissance Division.
  22. theater review
    Downstate, at the Limits of EmpathyIn Bruce Norris’s play about registered sex offenders, the characters are humanized but not quite forgiven.
  23. vulture festival 2022
    The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy Knows Daphne Is No VictimThe series’ “Zen mommy” unpacks the marital mind games being played in this week’s episode.
  24. vulture festival 2022
    Where Are the Happy Endings Characters in 2022?And where were they on January 6?
  25. chat room
    The Crown’s Lesley Manville Missed Her One Chance to Meet Princess MargaretVia an invitation from her friend David Bowie.
  26. theater review
    Kimberly Akimbo Skates Uptown, Anagrams IntactThe joyous and quirky show, starring Victoria Clark, glides onto Broadway.
  27. emergency discussion
    Does The Crown Like the Royals or Not?A season about the Diana and Charles divorce would seem like a prime opportunity to tear into the monarchy. And yet …
  28. power rankings
    Which Young Harry Potter Star Is Having the Best Career Now?The once-rising stars have gone on to play Batman, work with the Coen brothers, and, as for Daniel Radcliffe, lead a weirdo biopic about Weird Al.
  29. chat room
    Simona Tabasco Is ‘Threatening the Equilibrium’ of The White LotusThe actor teases Lucia’s intentions and the tattoo that commemorates her spicy last name.
  30. theater review
    Surreal Humor and Medical Metaphor in You Will Get SickLinda Lavin and Daniel K. Isaac are onstage in a very peculiar caregiver-and-patient relationship.
  31. theater review
    Onstage, It’s Almost Almost Famous You’ll meet them all again on the long journey to the middle.
  32. theater review
    A Man of No Importance, Larger in MiniatureJim Parsons leads the revival of the Ahrens-Flaherty-McNally musical.
  33. credits italian style
    The White Lotus Gets Operatic, Horny in New Opening-Credits SequencePlay the season-two theme song at every Halloween party this weekend.
  34. character study
    How Tati’s ‘Redefining the Idiot’ on Los EspookysAna Fabrega finds emotional truths in the HBO comedy’s most oblivious character.
  35. theater review
    A One-Dimensional Robert Moses in Straight Line CrazyRalph Fiennes stars in this talky, static retelling of Moses’s misdeeds.
  36. profile
    Gabriel LaBelle Is Suddenly Sorta SpielbergFor The Fabelmans, he beat out 2,000 actors to play a version of the famed director as a teen by embracing the meta-ness.
  37. theater review
    A Little Life, Off the Page, Is All In on PainIvo van Hove’s four-hour Dutch adaptation comes to BAM.
  38. midnights
    Taylor Swift’s Swear-iest Midnights Lyrics, RankedTaylor, after dark.
  39. exit interview
    The Long Road to MordorThe Rings of Power creators explain Sauron’s identity and their plan to explore the edges of Tolkien’s map.
  40. theater review
    The Piano Lesson Returns With Generations of Memory Laid OnSamuel L. Jackson and Danielle Brooks show off their stage mastery in this August Wilson revival.
  41. the group portrait
    The Backstage Spirits of Phantom of the OperaThe people behind 35 years’ music of the night.
  42. music notes
    A Tour of the Tolkien Lore in the Rings of Power ScoreCourtesy of series composer Bear McCreary.
  43. bros
    Stop Saving the Rom-comAs an empty vessel of a genre, the romantic comedy is not worth resuscitating, though what it once contained probably is.
  44. theater review
    In Funny Girl, Lea Michele Does Exactly What You Thought She CouldThe shiny apple of our eye.
  45. chat room
    The Good Fight’s Alan Cumming Was Delighted to Free Eli Gold From Network TV“There was actually more swearing initially.”
  46. exit interview
    ‘They’re Hardwired to Something Transactional’Industry’s creators on season-two twists and the crushing power of the Establishment.
  47. chat room
    Robert Aramayo Knows His Elrond LoreThe Rings of Power star talks about prosthetics, pronunciation, and precious ores.
  48. theater review
    The Persistence of Memory, Via David StrathairnHe embodies the anti-Nazi resistance fighter Jan Karski in Remember This.
  49. gaming
    Don’t You Want to Jump Off These Little Tears of the Kingdom?The long-awaited Legend of Zelda installment comes out May 12, 2023.
  50. highs and lows
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2022 Emmy AwardsWhy was Zedd in charge of interrupting and playing off the best of TV?
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