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Theater

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

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 VanDerWerff

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

Cats’ new trailer is here. It’s very Cats.

By Aja Romano

How Heroes of the Fourth Turning, about Catholic intellectuals, became one of fall’s buzziest plays

By Alissa Wilkinson

Broadway director Harold Prince left an unparalleled legacy of masterworks

By Aja Romano

The first Cats trailer is finally here. We were not prepared.

By Aja Romano

To bring in new fans, opera companies are leaving the opera house and heading to the catacombs

By Constance Grady

The new Oklahoma! is a sexy, shocking revival for our times

By Aja Romano

Jane Eyre is a startlingly modern heroine. A new ballet shows why.

By Constance Grady

The 2019 Tonys were a damp end to one of the most exciting Broadway seasons in ages

By Aja Romano and Constance Grady

Hadestown’s casting directors explain how they built its Tony-nominated ensemble

By Constance Grady

The new Broadway musical Hadestown has all the makings of a cult hit

By Constance Grady

What the Constitution Means to Me lets teen girls inject hope into democracy. It’s great.

By Aja Romano

82-year-old Glenda Jackson’s King Lear is towering. But she can’t rescue a bungled show.

By Aja Romano

2019 Pulitzer winner Fairview is the most productively uncomfortable play I’ve ever seen

By Constance Grady

Meet the high school debaters performing on Broadway

By Alissa Wilkinson

“The Pussy Grabber Plays” puts the stories of Trump’s accusers onstage

By Anna North

Cirque du Soleil and the neuroscience of awe

By Constance Grady