A theatre company has spent years bringing catharsis to the traumatized. In the coronavirus era, that’s all of us.

A conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

Twenty years ago my hometown made national headlines when the local college staged an internationally acclaimed play about gay men and the AIDS crisis. The people I grew up with are still feeling the aftershocks.

The story behind Tony Kushner’s examination of AIDS and homosexuality.

“The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.”

When improv goes big time.

For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.

The story of the landmark musical’s improbable success.

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

We think of the character as lithe and slim as the actors who’ve played him. But Shakespeare might not have intended him to be that way.

A profile of Mike Nichols.

A survivor of child abuse refuses to be silenced.

A profile of the Rookie editor-in-chief, who makes her Broadway debut next week.

An old crush is remembered via childhood memories and an unusual anecdote.

"Then he began wearing pastel skateboarding-themed shirts. SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A CRIME, one said. Wallace Marguerite is not committing a crime, Stella thought. It was novel and thrilling, true whether or not he was a skateboarder. She never saw a skateboard."

In 1902, a poet attempts to stage the world’s first “perfume concert.”

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.

A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.

On tragedy, mythology, and the spectacular crash of the Spider-Man musical and its creator, Julie Taymor.

The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

At three NYC comedy theater/schools, students and students-turned-instructors (a “benign pyramid scheme”) pursue the elusive simulacrum of human interaction that is longform improvisation.