Theater Archive

Bruce Springsteen on Broadway - The audience is white and aging. And well-heeled; tickets on StubHub for "Bruce Springsteen on Broadway" sell for as much as $3,000. As my friend and I settled ourselves in

Come Through: Bon Iver/Justin Vernon and TU Dance - There is “good,” and then there is “great,” and then, much higher on the quality scale, there is Bon Iver. Everything Justin Vernon and his band have done in the

Fun Home - A few days before the Tony nominations were announced, my wife had the good sense to buy tickets for “Fun Home.” Smart wife. "Fun Home" got a dozen nominations. And

Gerald and Sara, Scott and Zelda, Ernest Hemingway… and Jerome Robbins - Amanda Vaill is a friend of many years, but I am also among her biggest fans --- as a biographer, she’s peerless. I came to this conclusion after reading Everybody

Harry Clarke - "Harry Clarke" was the best play I saw in 2017. It came back briefly in 2018. And is now gone. Forever. [Do not despair. There's an audiobook. It costs

Life isn’t everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends. - “Men are divided into two groups,” a friend of Mike Nichols says on the first page of this book. “There are guys who want to be Babe Ruth, and

Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park with George” - In 1982, when James Lapine met Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim was a theater icon. His credits included “West Side Story,” “Gypsy,” “Company,” "Follies,” “A Little Night Music,” “Pacific Overtures” and “Sweeney

Ruth Draper - At the start of her career, Ruth Draper asked Henry James, a family friend, for advice about her future, whether she ought to pursue a career as a conventional actress

Theatre Review: “I Can Get It for You Wholesale” - Movie week? I interrupt it for a good reason: I saw a play last night that impressed me more than X, an award-winner we left at intermission, and Y, which