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Theater

Vox's coverage of stage shows, from massive Broadway productions to tiny shows at local theaters.

People forgot how to act in public 

By Alex Abad-Santos

Broadway is awash in bad pop musicals pretending to be about feminism

By Constance Grady

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Succession’s roots were in theater. That’s why it was great.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Broadway musical getting protested by neo-Nazis

By Constance Grady

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The Whale screenwriter on writing about religious fundamentalism, bodies, and hope

By Alissa Wilkinson

Lea Michele in Funny Girl: Yes, she is that good

By Constance Grady

A complete timeline of the Lea Michele-Beanie Feldstein-Funny Girl casting controversy

By Constance Grady

Recreating The Simpsons in the post-apocalypse

By Constance Grady

The post-Hamilton era of historical musicals has begun

By Constance Grady

Company is the musical that made Sondheim’s reputation. A new production reimagines it.

By Constance Grady

Remembering Stephen Sondheim

By Vox Staff

In Sondheim’s Assassins, cornball Americana can’t cover a seething mass of violent rage

By Constance Grady

The intertwined legacies of Jonathan Larson and Lin-Manuel Miranda

By Constance Grady

The fraught, crackling return of Broadway

By Constance Grady

People still can’t get enough of Princess Diana

By Constance Grady

Six, the long-delayed pop musical about Henry VIII’s wives, is glorious nonsense

By Constance Grady

After a lost pandemic year, live theater is back

By Constance Grady

The backlash against In the Heights, explained

By Aja Romano

The star-crossed history of In the Heights and West Side Story

By Aja Romano

How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies

By Constance Grady

One Good Thing: A Zoom experience that will still be fun post-pandemic

By Alissa Wilkinson

The year reality collapsed into pixels

By Alissa Wilkinson

Why Hamilton is as frustrating as it is brilliant — and impossible to pin down

By Aja Romano

We got comfortable with Hamilton. The new film reminds us how risky it is.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Recording the Company cast album was infamously hellish. This cult favorite doc captured it all.

By Aja Romano

George Bush is only for now

By Emily St. James

Look around, look around: Hamilton is coming to Disney+ on July 3

By Constance Grady

Sunday’s virtual Sondheim concert was the most cathartic experience of quarantine so far

By Constance Grady, Aja Romano, and 1 more

The 2020 Tonys are officially postponed

By Constance Grady

For 24 hours, watch amazing actors perform on Instagram

By Allegra Frank

All Broadway shows will close for a month due to coronavirus

By Aja Romano

Staging West Side Story in 2020 is an act of hubris. Ivo van Hove’s production shows why.

By Constance Grady

Ruth Negga’s moody, smoky Hamlet is a study in vulnerability 

By Constance Grady

How Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill tries to reinvent the jukebox musical

By Constance Grady and Aja Romano

How Stephen Adly Guirgis writes some of the best dialogue in American theater

By Alissa Wilkinson

The movie Cats doesn’t even know what the musical Cats is about

By Aja Romano

How Cats made Andrew Lloyd Webber the king of the Broadway spectacle

These days, we roll our eyes at Cats. But from the moment it opened, it was a smash.

By Aja Romano

Reckoning with Slave Play, the most controversial show on Broadway

By Allegra Frank, Aja Romano, and 1 more

Meet the man adapting your favorite childhood book

By Constance Grady

Taylor Swift’s “Beautiful Ghosts” might be the best part of the Cats movie

By Aja Romano