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Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s English

 For these characters, learning a global language is both broadening and restraining. By Sara Holdren
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Gary Gulman Clings to Grandiloquence

 In his Off Broadway show, the comedian too often confuses attention for acceptance. By Kathryn VanArendonk
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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway

 Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors
  1. theater review
    At the Kennedy Center, Schmigadoon! Briefly Reappears Through the MistStill sweetly spoofing classic Broadway, albeit with a little less bite than on TV.
    By Rhoda Feng
  2. i’m just a broadway baby
    Quentin Tarantino Prefers the The-a-ter Right Now“When it comes to being a filmmaker, I’ve pretty much done everything I’ve wanted to do.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. theater review
    Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s EnglishFor these characters, learning a global language is both broadening and restraining.
    By Sara Holdren
  4. theater review
    Gary Gulman Clings to GrandiloquenceIn his Off Broadway show, the comedian too often confuses attention for acceptance.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  5. willkom-mask
    Does the Mask Stay On?Orville Peck will star in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club on Broadway, leading to one inevitable question.
    By Jason P. Frank
  7. mythic proportions
    Maya Hawke to Make Off Broadway Debut in Eurydice“Eurydice is a warning to not spend your life fixated on your memories,” Hawke says.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. 2025 preview
    18 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See in 2025Idina Menzel in the forest, Paul Mescal in Brooklyn, and more.
    By Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry
  9. playbook
    Where Will Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Pop Up Next?We’ve got some ideas about where their showmance might go from here.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  10. from the wings
    Life As a Millennial Stage MomA journey into the cutthroat and adorable world of professional child actors.
    By Lauren Hilgers
  11. look book
    The Look Book Goes to Cult of Love’s Opening-Night PartyThe play’s cast, creative team, and supporters celebrated at Yard House in Times Square.
    By Emily Leibert and Jeremy Rellosa
  12. rip
    Linda Lavin, Tony Winner and Alice Star, Dead at 87She won theater’s highest honor for 1987’s Broadway Bound.
    By Devon E. Ivie
  13. theater review
    The Sit-Down Comedy of All InJohn Mulaney and friends deliver bright readings of slight tales.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. year in culture
    The Bests of 2024All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  15. theater review
    Is It Swell? Is It Great? Audra McDonald Takes Over GypsyDespite some iffy production choices, she delivers the world on a plate.
    By Sara Holdren
  16. radical optimism
    Hey, Wait … Is This Broadway Season Actually Great?Dead Outlaw rounds out the biggest slate of actually original musicals in years.
    By Jason P. Frank
  17. different times
    Clay Aiken Lost ‘50 Percent the Fan Base’ After Coming OutHe also claims “ticket sales dropped” for Spamalot afterwards.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  18. theater review
    In Eureka Day, the Jabs Are Verbal, TooA send-up of the leftist battles over vaccination and the weaponization of kindness.
    By Sara Holdren
  19. theater
    Everything’s Coming Up Joy WoodsThe Broadway breakout’s big belting in The Notebook went viral this year. Now, she’s taking on one of the greatest musicals of all time: Gypsy.
    By Jason P. Frank
  20. theater review
    Praise God and Pass the Banjo: Cult of LoveStrains (musical and otherwise) within an American Christian family.
    By Jackson McHenry
  21. peace in new york
    Patti LuPone Was ‘Energized’ by Sunset Blvd.Not in a hazardous way …
    By Jason P. Frank
  22. theater review
    Crimes and Chases: the beautiful land i seek and RACECAR RACECAR RACECARTwo travel tales leading into the American nightmare.
    By Sara Holdren
  23. a mescal named desire
    Dear Paul Mescal, Please Just Admit You Want to Be in a Broadway MusicalA detailed rundown of his passion for singing.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. a-b-c
    Business Boys Are Back on BroadwayKieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr co-star in Glengarry Glen Ross.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. finish him!
    Laura Benanti to Zachary Levi: ‘Fuck You Forever’She Loves Me? More like she hates him.
    By Jason P. Frank
  26. best of 2024
    The Best Theater of 2024Waterfront history staged afloat, a variety of robots, and Mary Todd Lincoln going wild.
    By Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry
  27. oh betty!
    Betty Gilpin to Replace Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!“I am beyond honored to step in so that Cole can get back to tending their neglected passions: fracking and skincare.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  28. theater review
    We Are Your Robots: Do Androids Dream of Electric Guitars?Siri, show me a good play with music.
    By Sara Holdren
  29. theater review
    Old Patterns and Bold Stitches: The Blood QuiltKatori Hall’s family-inheritance drama stays within a familiar grid.
    By Sara Holdren
  30. theater review
    Divas at Dusk: Death Becomes Her as Broadway CampThe musical adaptation of the Streep-and-Hawn movie is relentlessly eager for you to laugh with and at its dueling lead actresses.
    By Jackson McHenry
  31. theater review
    Out to Sea and Back With Swept AwayThe story of a whaling expedition that turned horrifying, musicalized by the Avett Brothers.
    By Sara Holdren
  32. theater review
    Shit. Meet. Fan. Tells Us Lots That We Already KnowNeil Patrick Harris and Jane Krakowski star in Robert O’Hara’s self-described “blistering vulgar satire.” It delivers one of those three things.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. theater review
    Elf: The Musical, Where They Sing Really Loud for All to HearEveryone’s trying, but the show itself is a cotton-headed ninny-muggins.
    By Jackson McHenry
  34. theater review
    The Lighter Side of Christian Nationalism: Tammy FayeSpinning an evangelist grifter into a camp icon and sorta-feminist heroine is a little hard to take right now.
    By Sara Holdren
  35. theater review
    King Lear at the Fountain of YouthKenneth Branagh’s production is fleet and facile.
    By Sara Holdren
  36. theater review
    When Robots Meet Cute: Maybe Happy Ending“It might feel like 2064 on the surface, but in its nostalgic, rechargeable heart, the show parties like it’s 1999.”
    By Sara Holdren
  37. theater review
    A Wonderful World Is Also a Familiar OneJames Monroe Iglehart does a fine job embodying Louis Armstrong in a show that’s anything but improvisational.
    By Jackson McHenry
  38. stella!!!!!
    Yes, Paul Mescal Will Star in A Streetcar Named Desire in New YorkBut, no, despite previous reports, it will not be on Broadway.
    By Jason P. Frank
  39. theater review
    Soho Rep Closes Out the House With Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!It’s the final show at Walkerspace, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Alina Troyano’s play is a wild goodbye whoop.
    By Sara Holdren
  40. movie review
    The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s PlayMalcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  41. theater review
    Worlds on the Brink: Walden and A Woman Among WomenAmy Berryman and Julia May Jonas invoke and gut renovate Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller (not to mention Thoreau).
    By Sara Holdren
  42. bts
    A Star-Crossed Romeo + Juliet Photo DumpTommy Dorfman shares an exclusive backstage photo diary from her Broadway debut.
    By Jacob Moscovitch and Bailey Kircher
  43. theater review
    Teeth Is Back and Biting HarderAnna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson’s horror musical now has a gory splash zone, and it benefits from the extra layer of kitsch (and plastic).
    By Jackson McHenry
  44. theater review
    A Big, Agnostic RagtimeCity Center’s revival blows the speakers out but says comparatively little.
    By Jackson McHenry
  45. theater review
    Theater of the ApocalypseIn the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot and HOTHOUSE put their characters in surreal settings as the world burns.
    By Sara Holdren
  46. theater review
    International Arrivals: We Live in Cairo and Bad KreyòlTwo shows take audiences into the Arab Spring and the Haitian American experience.
    By Jackson McHenry
  47. theater review
    Kissing by the Book: Connor and Zegler in Romeo & JulietA production that’s all shimmer with little grasp of Shakespeare’s words. (Plus: The silly joys of Drag: The Musical.)
    By Sara Holdren
  48. respect the classics
    Stevie Nicks Has No Idea What Stereophonic Is“What is that?”
    By Devon Ivie
  49. theater review
    Left on Tenth Goes Right Down the MiddleJulianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher reenact Delia Ephron’s memoir, long on charm and short on dramatic tension.
    By Jackson McHenry
  50. defenders
    Rachel Zegler Says West End Romeo & Juliet ‘Failed’ Francesca Amewudah-RiversAfter the actress faced racial abuse while starring opposite Tom Holland.
    By Jason P. Frank
  51. bombshell
    Wait, What Is the Broadway Smash Adaptation Even About?The character names in the new cast list are not the names from the show.
    By Jason P. Frank
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