The actor Joy Woods never thought much about “Gypsy” — at least not until she was cast in the show opposite Audra McDonald in one of the buzziest Broadway revivals of the season. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “You see all the iterations of the show and you don’t see anybody that looks like you, […]

There’s a cozy ease that permeates “All In,” in which a rotating cast of celebs narrates, with both flourish and offhandedness, the humorous and offbeat essays of The New Yorker writer Simon Rich. It’s the kind of comic comfort that easily fits into the holiday period but also into a Broadway season that is especially welcoming […]

“You can always spot a Eureka Day kid, because at soccer games, they’re the ones who cheer when the other team scores.” So says Carina (Amber Gray), the parent of a new enrollee at Berkeley’s Eureka Day school, explaining what had been her thinking in placing her son there. To this point, like-minded members of […]

The Shed isn’t a Broadway theater, but in the relatively short time the venue has been in operation, it’s hosted some of New York City’s starriest stage endeavors—from Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, to a play about Robert Moses headlined by Ralph Fiennes, to its current offering, a staging of “King Lear” co-directed by and starring […]