Saturday, March 26, 2016

'Waitress' Is Making Broadway History With Its All-Female Creative Team | FiveThirtyEight by Joanna Kao

The first screenplay Jessie Nelson ever wrote was about a group of waitresses, a job she herself held for 10 years. But after the script was handed off to a team of men, they reworked it to …

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Thursday, November 26, 2015

'Hamilton' Is The Very Model Of A Modern Fast-Paced Musical | FiveThirtyEight by Leah Libresco

"Hamilton," the hit Broadway musical biography of Alexander Hamilton, helped its composer, writer, lyricist and star Lin-Manuel Miranda win a MacArthur fellowship, and many critics seem to t…

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Monday, June 8, 2015

The Tonys Have Never Been So Dominated By Women by Joanna Kao

Was last season the year of women on Broadway? Based on Sunday night's Tony Awards, it might have been. This year, seven women won Tony Awards, the highest number in Tony history. The seven …

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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

For Broadway Shows, There's A Prize For Opening Late by Joanna Kao

Cherry Jones, the two-time Tony winner and veteran Broadway actress, hasn't been to all 14 opening nights that Broadway played host to this month, but she estimates she's attended "oh, maybe…

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Monday, March 17, 2014

Parsing Is Such Sweet Sorrow by Emma Pierson

More than 400 years after Shakespeare wrote it, we can now say that “Romeo and Juliet” has the wrong name. Perhaps the play should be called “Juliet and Her Nurse,” w…

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