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Friday, July 31, 2026

Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play by Rhoda Feng, Richard Brody, Marina Harss, Vince Aletti, Sheldon Pearce, Madeleine Wulfahrt, Rachel Syme

Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.

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Saturday, July 25, 2026

Whoopi Goldberg Was and Always Will Be the Whole Show by Doreen St. Félix

Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses.

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Saturday, June 20, 2026

Pencils Up! The Knicks on Broadway by Dan Greene

The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city’s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren’t s…

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Monday, June 15, 2026

How Tina Fey Wrote the Most Realistic—and Optimistic—Marriage on TV by Inkoo Kang

On “30 Rock,” she pioneered the kind of heteroskepticism that’s now more prevalent than ever. With “The Four Seasons,” she’s exploring a more hopeful counternarrative.

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Friday, June 12, 2026

Power Play: Behind the Music of “Heated Rivalry” by Zoe Si

The show’s creator, Jacob Tierney, on his sonic past and what songs you might hear in the second season.

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Monday, May 25, 2026

Mariska Hargitay Trades Her Badge for Confetti by Sarah Larson

On a break from “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” the actress takes over for Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing”—steps away from where her mother, Jayne Mansfield, had her Broadwa…

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Thursday, May 21, 2026

The Fear Driving “Well, I’ll Let You Go” and “Othello” by Emily Nussbaum

A new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy hinge on a universal anxiety: How well do you know your partner?

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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Why the Best Writing Advice Is Often the Weirdest by David O’neill

“Three six five,” a new collection of writing exercises by the writer Lucy Ives, belongs to a venerable tradition of goofy, esoteric, and avant-garde guides to unlocking the creative min…

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The Redemption of “Vanessa,” a Neglected Operatic Masterpiece by Russell Platt

Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful resurgence.

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Monday, May 18, 2026

Chaya Czernowin Gives Voice to a Wounded World by Alex Ross

The composer’s work, featured at a recent festival in Germany, includes a howling denunciation of war crimes against children.

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Realistic High-School-Yearbook Inscriptions by Jason Roeder, Mike Sacks

“You will read this once this afternoon and not again until you’re in your fifties, but, by that time, I will have already died, alone in my apartment, totally nude, except for my ankle …

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The Prehistory of A.I. Slop by Jill Lepore

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

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Can Mozart and Salieri Work It Out? by Michael Schulman

At the Morgan Library’s Mozart exhibition, Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany dish about playing classical music’s most notorious rivals, on Starz’s new “Amadeus” reboot.

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“The Angel of Retail,” by Robert Pinsky by Robert Pinsky

“Your spirit of grace in the taffy machine’s chrome arms / At Morris’s Candy performing a sarabande / Unknitting and knitting again immaculate sweets.”

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Sunday, May 17, 2026

“The Dreamdrive,” by Weike Wang by Weike Wang

Each morning, he “awoke”—not the term he would have used—exhausted, having not slept and having driven all night.

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Boots Riley, Marx Brother by Emily Nussbaum

Boots Riley’s zany movies combine pop aesthetics with radical politics.

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Saturday, May 16, 2026

Can Art Teach? by David S. Wallace

Calling something “didactic” has become grounds for immediate dismissal. But do the merits of works with an educational bent—from “The Pitt” to “Elizabeth Costello”—suggest w…

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Friday, May 15, 2026

The Surrealist Blues Poet aja monet’s Jazzy New Album by Sheldon Pearce, Emily Nussbaum, Brian Seibert, Jillian Steinhauer, Richard Brody, Naomi Fry, Rachel Syme

Also: Joan Semmel’s revolutionary nudes, Aleshea Harris’s film adaptation of “Is God Is,” Rachel Syme on thrift markets galore, and more.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

The Hollow Trickery of “The Wizard of the Kremlin” by Richard Brody

Olivier Assayas’s adaptation of a novel about a fictionalized adviser to Vladimir Putin reduces politics to personalities and atrocities to anecdotes.

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Buddy Bradley’s Legacy of Dance by Brian Seibert

Maureen Footer’s new biography, “Feel the Floor,” shows how a little-known Black choreographer taught white stars all the latest moves.

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Friday, May 1, 2026

“Heated Rivalry” and Its Wine-Mom Fans Reunite by Dan Stahl, Sheldon Pearce, Jane Bua, Jillian Steinhauer, Richard Brody, Marina Harss, Taran Dugal

Plus: the radiant pop of MUNA, the visceral paintings of Juanita McNeely, a “Beaches” musical, and more.

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Thursday, April 30, 2026

“Schmigadoon!” and “The Lost Boys” Are Killer Revamps by Emily Nussbaum

Camp has become the go-to aesthetic for Broadway musicals. These two new shows dare to be sincere.

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Monday, April 27, 2026

Patrick Ball’s Path to Broadway and “Becky Shaw” by Rachel Syme

Before “The Pitt,” the actor waited tables, made lattes, and schlepped Carrie Bradshaw’s wardrobe around town.

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How Long Can Martha Graham’s Dance Revolution Last? by Jennifer Homans

As the company she left behind celebrates its centenary, it finds itself caught between preservation and radical tradition.

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Laurie Metcalf’s Third Act by Michael Schulman

The once cancelled producer Scott Rudin has staked his own comeback on making her the First Lady of American Theatre.

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Ellen Burstyn’s Inner Library by Michael Schulman

Kris Kristofferson told her he was a poet when they co-starred in “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.” Her new book tells the story of her life in poetry.

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Reverend Billy Takes On Norman Foster’s New Monolith by Jake Offenhartz

Fresh from opening shows for Neil Young, the street preacher Billy Talen has moved on from burning Mickey Mouse in effigy to protesting JPMorgan Chase’s ties to fossil fuels.

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Sunday, April 26, 2026

“Process of Elimination,” by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

The night the tip jar went missing, we assumed that it had been stolen by a student, or maybe a professor—an adjunct—who had taken it when we weren’t looking.

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Friday, April 24, 2026

The New Masculinity of “DTF St. Louis” by Alexandra Schwartz

The show exists in a strange world where men repeatedly confess their love for each other. Does it make them better people?

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Oneohtrix Point Never’s Sense of the Uncanny by Sheldon Pearce, Dan Stahl, Leo Lasdun, Brian Seibert, Inkoo Kang, Emily Nussbaum, Richard Brody, Sarah Larson

Also: Sarah Larson’s latest podcast picks, “The Rocky Horror Show” and “The Balusters” on Broadway, the French singer Oklou, and more.

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“Half Man” TV Review by Inkoo Kang

Richard Gadd’s follow-up to “Baby Reindeer” traces a decades-long quasi-familial relationship that’s thornier than any other male bond on TV.

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2026-2027 BROADWAY SEASON
May 18, 2026: Celebrity Autobiography - Shubert Theatre
Aug 25, 2026: Paranormal Activity - August Wilson Theatre
Sep 28, 2026: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Oct 18, 2026: Other Desert Cities - Hudson Theatre
Oct 21, 2026: 860 - Imperial Theatre
Oct 22, 2026: The Imaginary Invalid - Todd Haimes Theatre
Oct 29, 2026: A Few Good Men - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Nov 08, 2026: Wanted - James Earl Jones Theatre
Nov 16, 2026: The Fantasticks - Hayes Theater
Nov 19, 2026: Much Ado About Nothing - Winter Garden Theatre
Dec 01, 2026: Inter Alia - Music Box Theatre
Dec 06, 2026: Galileo - Shubert Theatre
Jan 05, 2027: Awake and Sing! - Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
Jan 19, 2027: Dolly: A True Original Musical - St. James Theatre
Jan 27, 2027: Mix And Master - Todd Haimes Theatre
Feb 01, 2027: Three Days Of Rain
Mar 25, 2027: Evita - Winter Garden Theatre
Apr 01, 2027: Warriors - Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Apr 05, 2027: Gloria - Hayes Theater
Apr 12, 2027: Purple Rain - Majestic Theatre
Apr 13, 2027: The Sound of Music - Vivian Beaumont Theater
Apr 18, 2027: Paddington The Musical - Al Hirschfeld Theatre
Apr 25, 2027: The Full Monty - Todd Haimes Theatre
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