BLACK BOX
How Max Pitegoff and Calla Henkel Brought DIY Theater Back to Hollywood
April 25, 2024
“New Theater Hollywood is a delusion,” says Max Pitegoff. But after a few seasons at the helm, he and co-founder Calla Henkel find themselves at the center of L.A.’s revived theater scene.
BACKSTAGE
Eden Espinosa Isn’t Afraid to Play Unlikable Characters Anymore
April 23, 2024
The actor, who currently stars as Tamara de Lempicka in the original Broadway musical about the art deco painter, talked to us about embracing characters who don’t summon the audience’s sympathies.
BACKSTAGE
Aaron Tveit and Sutton Foster Are Making Sweeney Todd Horny Again
March 27, 2024
Backstage at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, the Broadway heavyweights told us how they’re making Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd” their own.
BACKSTAGE
“There’s No Place I’d Rather Be”: Victoria Pedretti on Her Broadway Debut
March 25, 2024
“It’s a pretty timeless story about truth and justice and corruption,” says the actor, who stars opposite Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli in Amy Herzog’s adaptation of “An Enemy of the People.”
SUPERSTAR
Remembering Jackie Curtis, the Superstar Who Brought Drag to Off-Off Broadway
February 26, 2024
An homage to the master of camp and the controversial play that defined her work.
camp
How Cole Escola Reimagined Mary Todd Lincoln as a Debauched Cabaret Star
February 8, 2024
“Fuck the Obies.”
EXPAT
How Richard Kennedy Made an Operetta for the Outcasts
January 18, 2024
“I used to be at the art openings for the free wine and to sell to molly.”
THESPIAN
“This Is About to Get Hardcore”: Colman Domingo in Conversation With Natasha Lyonne
December 4, 2023
For our Winter ’23 issue, the fast friends unpack Domingo’s rise from a reliable journeyman actor to the top spot on call sheets.
BACKSTAGE
For Michael Shannon, Waiting for Godot Is the Ultimate Opportunity
November 21, 2023
“Estragon is a state of mind that exists in all of us, or can exist in us if we’re overcome by it.”
SALON
How Jocelyn Bioh and Nana Mensah Brought Hair Braiding to Broadway
November 16, 2023
“There’s still people who believe Africa to be a country. Bless them.”
PLAYWRIGHT
“It’s More Dangerous Than Therapy”: Matt Gasda and Harry Hill Talk Zoomers
November 9, 2023
“You’re kind of like the Chekhov of people that ride the G train.”
ICON
Cecilia Gentili Is Looking for God in Her New One-Woman Show
November 1, 2023
“The goal is no longer to look more feminine. The goal is to look young.”
DEATH
Rachel Bloom is Having Her Patti Lupone Moment
October 6, 2023
“If you talk to a Jewish woman about any super smart Jewish guy, our ovaries pop out eggs.”
BACKSTAGE
Sydney Lemmon Wants to Get to the Bottom of the Internet
October 5, 2023
“I don’t have that relationship with the internet. I feel more addicted to it than I do enjoy it.”
DRAMA
Jordan Roth and Jeremy O. Harris on the Politics of Self-Expression
September 12, 2023
In our September ’23 issue, Jeremy O. Harris quizzes the award-winning Broadway producer on his proclivity for dressing up.
MEZZANINE
Paul Sparks Invites Us to Broadway to See His Chamber of Horrors
July 27, 2023
“They don’t pay the best, but they are the best jobs.”
ON STAGE
Jinkx Monsoon Readies for Chicago
With Supper at Sardi’s
January 18, 2023
“What I love is seeing different female archetypes figure out their way through life when the cards are stacked against them.”
IN CONVERSATION
Chloé Cooper Jones Asks Julia May Jonas About Her Breakout Year
December 28, 2022
“I’m just always trying to be inside a state of becoming, as good old Bob Dylan says.”
IN CONVERSATION
David Adjaye and Kwame Kwei-Armah Talk Basquiat and the “Black Gaze”
December 27, 2022
“As always, I feel like I’m at a lecture that I paid a lot of money for and I’m getting my value.”