Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’
This exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
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This exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
By BEN BRANTLEY
One of Ms. Churchill’s merits as a playwright is that she tends to divide people. Her play, “Light Shining in Buckinghamshire,” is returning to New York.
By DWIGHT GARNER
Sara Krulwich photographs about 100 plays, musicals and operas each year, and is generally the only photographer not on a show’s payroll allowed to shoot.
By MICHAEL PAULSON
The late Queen of Disco and pioneer of electronic dance music gets the Broadway jukebox treatment.
By JESSE GREEN
Lucy Thurber’s compassionate but clunky play follows the bids of two young men from the Bronx to win scholarships at a New England college.
By BEN BRANTLEY
J.K. Rowling’s ever-popular boy wizard is all grown up in this enthralling two-part play, directed with seamless magic by John Tiffany.
By BEN BRANTLEY
A French verse craze inspired a 1738 farce and now a comedy in couplets by David Ives.
By JESSE GREEN
While performers who go from show to show embrace the identity, Actors’ Equity has decided that a ceremony celebrating them needs to be renamed.
By MICHAEL PAULSON
Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for the #MeToo moment.
By JESSE GREEN