In this re-launch, the score, direction and choreography are almost identical to what we saw back in 1985. And the choreography remains the heart and soul.
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Broadway fans love a good meme – and with Death Becomes Her they have a truly viral hit.
A legal fight over a US news organisation’s ability to report from the White House has significant parallels to a new play on Broadway.
Eddie Redmayne’s jagged performance embodies the extreme rupture between Weimar and Nazi culture.
Comedians like Stephen Colbert might mock the entertainment mecca, but live theater is in too much of a crisis to dismiss the town’s formula of spectacle meets story.
Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
The nine shows include two 2022 Tony Award nominees – and three more Broadway productions are set to open in coming months.
Although a Grammy win for a TikTok musical was a first, musical theatre has always circulated through networks of media, popular culture and fandom.
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s famous musical has long inspired controversy for how it depicts the story of Jesus of Nazareth.
Fans of divas like Judy Garland formed complex social networks and communities around their fandom that were also about joy and celebration.
The successes of the NBA’s #WholeNewGame provide important lessons for performing artists about audience investment and hybrid digital-live events.
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster portrayal of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most colourful founding fathers, opens this month in Toronto.
The cartoon-turned-Broadway sensation is set in a place named after the Bikini islands, which has a dark history of forced removal and exile of native people from their land.
The Broadway hit offered an escape from the anxieties of World War II. But the America it portrayed – unified, patriotic and white – rings hollow today.
On the surface – and when compared to the Oscars – the 2016 Tonys looked like a groundbreaking moment for diversity in entertainment. But when it comes to inclusion, Broadway has a long way to go.
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Professor, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Musical Theatre, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
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PhD graduate, History of Musicals, Lancaster University
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Professor of Theater and Dance, University of Kansas
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Professor of American History, University of Leeds; Independent Social Research Foundation
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, McGill University
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Associate Professor and Chair of Music, Colorado College
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Associate professor, Washington University in St. Louis
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Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Lecturer in Singing, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Drama, Tufts University
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Associate Lecturer in Music Theatre, University of Sydney