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Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through Movement

 Sufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece. By Sara Holdren
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Can You Teach an Old Sport New Tricks? The Great Gatsby on Broadway.

 Singing through the ash dump. By Sara Holdren
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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
    Feeling the Illinoise, This Time Through MovementSufjan Stevens’s album becomes a transcendent theater-dance-music piece.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. theater review
    Can You Teach an Old Sport New Tricks? The Great Gatsby on Broadway.Singing through the ash dump.
    By Sara Holdren
  3. theater review
    An Evictable Menagerie: Paula Vogel’s Mother PlayRevisiting her chaotic upbringing with intermittent insight.
    By Jackson McHenry
  4. theater review
    Stomping As They Climb in JordansIfe Olujobi’s claws-out satire doesn’t quite reach the tragic potential of its DEI-in-the-workplace premise.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. theater review
    The New Uncle Vanya’s Aims Are OffSteve Carell & Co. are individually appealing in Heidi Schreck’s translation, but the show itself never comes to life.
    By Sara Holdren
  7. encounter
    An Old Wives’ TaleIn comedian Cole Escola’s debut play, Oh, Mary!, Mary Todd Lincoln gets to be an unstoppable diva, and so do they.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. the south of what?
    Oh, Mary! Cole Escola’s Madcap Medley Goes to BroadwayIt’s no Booth Theatre, but the Lyceum will do.
    By Jason P. Frank
  9. theater
    Staging SufjanHow playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury turned a classic indie-rock album into a Justin Peck–choreographed dance piece that’s now Broadway bound.
    By Juan A. Ramírez
  10. theater review
    Rachel McAdams Fights — and Finds — Reality in Mary JaneMaking an impressive Broadway debut, the actress offers a layered depiction of navigating a parenting nightmare.
    By Jackson McHenry
  11. theater review
    Don’t Think Too Hard About The Heart of Rock and RollThe Huey Lewis musical is fine, fun, and as lightweight as a cardboard box.
    By Jackson McHenry
  12. theater review
    Putin Has a Lean and Hungry Look in PatriotsThe Crown creator Peter Morgan’s new play redirects his eye for palace intrigue to the power dynamics of post-Perestroika Moscow.
    By Sara Holdren
  13. theater review
    Dancing on the Surface in Cabaret and OrlandoAtmosphere is all in the loose hustle and bustle of a pre-show, but in a play proper, it can only carry you so far.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. theater review
    Hell’s Kitchen Is the WE❤NYC of MusicalsAnthemic songs with generalities in between.
    By Jackson McHenry
  15. theater review
    Stereophonic Moves to Broadway, and Thunder HappensIt’s a love song, bittersweet and wounded and ferociously loyal, to the act of making art.
    By Sara Holdren
  16. theater review
    Living Is Harder: Suffs and GrenfellSuffrage and outrage make for rich stage experiences.
    By Sara Holdren
  17. theater review
    The Wiz Rolls Back Into TownBig high-energy performances, undercut by the folks behind the curtain.
    By Jackson McHenry
  18. theater review
    Writing Down the Bones: Sally & TomA curiously muted Hemings-and-Jefferson meta-story by Suzan-Lori Parks.
    By Sara Holdren
  19. starcrossed
    Rachel Zegler to Play Juliet for Real This TimeMaking her Broadway debut alongside Kit Connor.
    By Jason P. Frank
  20. theater review
    Look, I Made a Woman: LempickaThe musical somehow turns a radical bisexual painter, living and loving in Paris between the wars, a little bit boring.
    By Sara Holdren
  21. theater review
    St. Ronnie the Oblivious: Richard Foreman’s Symphony of RatsThe Wooster Group brings back a Reagan-era yawp of discontinuity.
    By Sara Holdren
  22. theater review
    Not Without Ambition, But … Macbeth (an undoing)A reimagining of Shakespeare, centering Lady Macbeth, asks the wrong questions about her.
    By Sara Holdren
  23. theater review
    Return of the Musical Rumble: The OutsidersDoes the stage adaptation stay gold?
    By Sara Holdren
  24. drama
    800 Black Performers Sign Letter in Support of Francesca Amewudah-RiversAfter she faced racism online for being cast opposite Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. theater
    What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) BroadwayLet Vulture’s theater desk be your guide.
    By Vulture Editors
  26. career change
    Willy Wonka Experience’s The Unknown Has a New GigTheater lives! At the London Dungeon.
    By Bethy Squires
  27. allie ally
    Will Rachel McAdams See The Notebook on Broadway?The star is making her Broadway debut at the same time as one of her most iconic films.
    By Tom Smyth
  28. q&a
    Who Is Rooting for Corey Stoll in Appropriate?“A real strength of the play is how people’s allegiances are constantly shifting.”
    By Jason P. Frank
  29. grover’s corners
    Take a Trip Back to Our TownKatie Holmes, Zoey Deutch, and Jim Parsons will star (yes, in this).
    By Jason P. Frank
  30. in conversation
    The One and Only Benedict WongSpy. Scientist. Sorcerer Supreme. Finally, with 3 Body Problem, the actor plays someone like himself.
    By Nicholas Quah
  31. theater review
    Always Gets a Replay: The Who’s TommyYes, it’s a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
    By Sara Holdren
  32. stage whisperer
    Stage Whisperer: Ariana DeBose’s Tonys Hat TrickThis week in theater news: Ariana will host the Tonys, Lempicka is giving Repo! The Generic Opera, and Bronies are an untapped Broadway audience.
    By Vulture Staff
  33. theater review
    Grief Hotel, Where You Check In to YourselfLiza Birkenmeier’s discontinuous, fragmented play imagines a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing loss.
    By Sara Holdren
  34. hosting duties
    Ariana DeBose to Host the Tonys — With a Script This TimeShe’s gonna do it. (The thing.)
    By Jason P. Frank
  35. mom?
    A Motherquake Is Hitting Broadway!Paula Vogel’s Mother Play, starring Jessica Lange and directed by Tina Landau, starts previews on April 3.
    By Jason P. Frank
  36. drama class
    Does Victoria Pedretti Even Have a Max Subscription?She hasn’t seen Succession or The Sopranos despite acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli.
    By Jason P. Frank
  37. the greatest star of all
    Nicole Scherzinger Is Ready for Her Close-upShe’s making her way to the St. James in Sunset Boulevard this September — a musical by her former nemesis Andrew Lloyd Webber.
    By Jason P. Frank
  38. theater review
    Becoming Brian Friel: Philadelphia, Here I Come!At the Irish Rep, early work by a future master.
    By Sara Holdren
  39. coming soon
    The Odes of Tammy Faye Will Play the PalaceWith Andrew Rannells and Katie Brayben making their way across the pond.
    By Jason P. Frank
  40. theater review
    Water for Elephants Is Best When It’s Behind the TimesDazzling circus arts and great puppetry are almost enough.
    By Sara Holdren
  41. stage whisperer
    An Enemy of the People’s Stars Didn’t Mind the InterruptionAt the show’s opening-night party, Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli reflected on their interactions with last week’s climate activists.
    By Jackson McHenry
  42. theater review
    In Teeth, Purity Culture Leaves Bite MarksMichael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs are out for blood.
    By Sara Holdren
  43. coming soon
    Broadway Is Celebrating Casimir Pulaski DaySufjan Stevens’s Illinoise is headed for the Great White Way, just in time for Tony season.
    By Jason P. Frank
  44. theater review
    Ibsen, Translated Into American: An Enemy of the PeopleWith Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli, and drinks on the house.
    By Sara Holdren
  45. protests
    Climate Protesters Interrupt An Enemy of the People PerformanceMichael Imperioli stayed in character, shooing the protesters away.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  46. theater review
    Love and Brains, Dull and Sharp: The Notebook and The EffectA musical adaptation that’s generic to the point of inanity, and a play that asks and examines real questions about what a person is.
    By Sara Holdren
  47. last night on late night
    Carrie Coon Wants The Gilded Age to Take BroadwayForget a musical episode, it’s time for a whole damn show.
    By Bethy Squires
  48. don’t stop!
    Glee Crushes Past Haunt New York TheatersDarren Criss, Jonathan Groff, and now Grant Gustin are vindicating Ryan Murphy’s twink-casting abilities.
    By Jason P. Frank
  49. theater review
    Corruption’s Heroes Are Not Serious PeopleMurdoch’s phone-hacking scandal, recounted by thinly drawn archetypes.
    By Sara Holdren
  50. theater review
    The Old-Weird-America Pleasures of Dead OutlawFrom the team behind The Band’s Visit, another musical that is more than meets the eye.
    By Sara Holdren
  51. theater review
    Doubt Returns in a Traditionalist ProductionJohn Patrick Shanley’s dialogue still packs heat, but the fire’s been turned down this time.
    By Sara Holdren
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