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Donald Trump Told Me What He Really Thinks About ‘Theater Kids’

Erik Forrest Jackson

August 22, 2026

Color photograph of Donald Tump standing on a stage with sparklers going off in front of him.

The Monster That Doesn’t Announce Itself

May 31, 2026

The actor John Lithgow, playing the children's author Roald Dahl, sits at a table holding up one of Dahl's books while surrounded by actors portraying his publisher, a cook, and his wife.

Mary Todd Lincoln, Taken Out of Context

December 29, 2025

Photograph of a woman on stage, wearing an voluminous dress, reading from a book with a framed portrait of George Washington behind her

Trump’s Very Weird Night at the Kennedy Center Honors

Alexandra Petri

December 8, 2025

trump in kennedy center honors awards show illustration

When You Don’t Look Like Anything

Anna Deavere Smith

July 24, 2025

A color photograph of Anna Deveare Smith alone on stage performing

The Musical Blockbuster That Didn’t Play By the Rules

November 27, 2024

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo in 'Wicked'

The Fairy Tale We’ve Been Retelling for 125 Years

Allegra Rosenberg

November 23, 2024

The Wizard of Oz

A ‘Parade’ of Anti-Semites on Broadway

March 22, 2023

A photo of a performance of the musical Parade

The Best Feeling Art Can Give

December 10, 2022

The Crucial Difference Between Cheesy and Corny

March 14, 2022

Stop Blaming Fandoms

February 4, 2022

A Los Angeles Rams fan wearing a Matthew Stafford jersey

Stephen Sondheim, Way Off Broadway

Xochitl Gonzalez

December 1, 2021

Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist. (Photo by R. Jones/Evening Standard/Getty Images)

On The Great White Way

November 9, 2021

Broadway’s Dirty Secret

November 6, 2019

Two men in white clothes embrace on a stage.

The Man Who Transformed Broadway

August 1, 2019