Recent Highlights
All Stories for Broadway
Artiste Anthony Ramos on his new album Love and Lies, colourism debate around In The Heights
• 4 years agoRamos, who got his break in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash musical Hamilton, is having a breakthrough year as an actor, also appearing opposite Uzo Aduba in the HBO reboot of In Treatment. His next projects include a sci-fi epic, Distant, as well as the next Transformers installment.
Tony Award-winning thespian André De Shields returns to Broadway in and as King Lear, and Hadestown
• 4 years agoDe Shields’ towering presence is somehow more captivating in the quiet beats — perhaps most strikingly when he carries the corpse of his daughter in his arms, unwavering, halfway across the stage.
Beyond Hollywood's big-budget In the Heights, colourism persists, and is rarely addressed
• 4 years agoColorism — or discrimination against darker-skinned people within their same ethnic group — lurks deep among pretty much all communities with varying levels of melanin. But it doesn’t get talked about, and that could be a setback for the racial justice efforts that intensified after the police killing of George Floyd last year.
Amanda Kloots on Nick Cordero's loss, her hope that people don't forget COVID-19 devastation
• 4 years agoKloots has also released a new book called Live Your Life: My Story of Loving and Losing Nick Cordero.
Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway with a limited run of his one-man show
• 4 years agoIn the show, Springsteen performs 15 songs — including 'My Hometown,' 'Thunder Road,' and 'Born in the USA' — and tells stories about growing up in New Jersey.
Clarence Williams III, best known for playing undercover cop in TV series The Mod Squad, passes away at 81
• 4 years agoClarence Williams III died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with colon cancer, his manager said on Sunday.
The Lehman Trilogy: Play recounting American financial giant’s downfall plots its Broadway return
• 4 years agoSpanning 150 years and running three and a half hours, The Lehman Trilogy illustrates the trajectory of western capitalism.
A new production of Dancin' heading to Broadway will pay tribute to the legacy of choreographer Bob Fosse
• 4 years agoDancin' opened on Broadway in 1978 with Ann Reinking also in the cast and ended in 1982 after 1,774 performances. It was nominated for seven Tony Awards, including best new musical, and it earned Fosse a Tony for choreography.
Oslo movie review: Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott's drama is a timely but intrinsically partial account of history
Rahuldesai • 4 years agoOslo believes it is empathetic and balanced (which is questionable enough), but its skewed scales are essentially a consequence of an inbuilt Hollywood gaze.
How television provided a glitzy refuge to Broadway stars during COVID-19 shutdown
• 4 years agoNew and returning TV series like The Gilded Age and The Good Fight have come to the aid of celebrated theatre actors during the pandemic. Will TV, or theatre, ever be the same?