Simon Russell Beale: Power Plays
The ‘Lehman Trilogy’ star talks about not judging his characters, the right age to play Lear, and what he’s learned from playing royals.
March 2020
You Should See Them in a Crown: The Dope Queens of ‘Six’
A British concert musical about Henry VIII’s wives comes to Broadway on a wave of ‘Hamilton’-worthy buzz.
A ‘West Side Story’ That Resets the Choreographic Balance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s pared-down choreography may depart from Jerome Robbins’s original steps, but is it telling the same story?
‘The Uninvited’ Revisits Reconstruction Where It Took Place, but Didn’t Take Root
New Orleans’s Goat in the Road Productions immersively restages an overlooked post-Civil War conflict.
Tummeling With Jerry Herman
The writer behind ‘Mame,’ ‘La Cage aux Folles,’ and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ wasn’t just a genius—he was a mensch.