Rodgers and Hammerstein created tuneful diversions but also some of our nation’s most enduring entertainments.
Rob Weinert-Kendt
Rob Weinert-Kendt, an arts journalist and editor of American Theatre magazine, has written for The New York Times and Time Out New York.
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Harry Potter is now on Broadway and it might never leave
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is both a sequel to Rowling’s iconic seven-book series and a canny rehash of many of its tropes.
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David Bowie: Rock’s enigmatic shape-shifter
A blockbuster exhibition profiles one of the 20th century’s great bridge figures.
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‘Howards End’ is another period drama worth falling for
E. M. Forster’s masterpiece is a state-of-the-nation thesis in the guise of a real estate inheritance plot.
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Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ was live TV at its best
There is simply no ignoring the elemental power of seeing Jesus’ depicted, earnestly and largely reverently, on national TV.
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‘Angels in America’ revival takes flight in a new political age
Tony Kushner’s two-part play feels both timely and timeless.
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Arthur Miller examined by his daughter in a new HBO documentary
Rebecca Miller has made a film that pays complicated tribute to a complex man.
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Malcolm X gets a Shakespearean treatment in a new play
But was the civil rights leader Brutus or Caesar?
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How American Theater is wrestling with the Trump era
Three plays invite us to look back on the decade that launched Trump as a time of churning ambivalence and upheaval.
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Sam Shepard: America’s show-us-who-we-really-are prophet
While Shepard’s plays would absorb different rhythms and influences, their essence and voice were unmistakably his—our—own.