With ‘Maybe Happy Ending,’ two first-time Broadway writers take a big swing—and hit a home run.
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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Three new musicals about fabulous and funny women
Age and its relationship to stardom is the animating subject of “Sunset Blvd,” “Tammy Faye” and “Death Becomes Her.”
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Reviews: ‘Our Town’ returns to Broadway, and Jez Butterworth revisits 1950s England
Two new productions on Broadway—“The Hills of California” and ”Our Town”—meditate on theater as a kind of shared imaginative space.
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‘Slow Horses’: a ragtag spy thriller with le Carré style and retro charm
Apple TV+’s ’Slow Horses‘ plays a bit like John le Carré with more firepower. And efficiency.
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‘Cabaret’ returns to Broadway: Facing the Nazis’ most diabolical crime on stage
The complicity of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is the central subject of two shows now running in New York City.
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Stars Jeremy Strong and Steve Carell can’t save Broadway’s ‘An Enemy of the People’ and ‘Uncle Vanya’
Two new Broadway productions cast these two towering figures in sharp relief.
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How dance brings Sufjan Stevens’ music to the next level in ‘Illinoise’
‘Illinoise,’ the new dance-theater piece by choreographer Justin Peck, is as bespoke as Stevens’s carefully composed album.
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‘Doubt’: A classic Catholic play returns to Broadway
It is only two decades old, but “Doubt” already feels like it’s been with us forever.
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John Patrick Shanley on ‘Doubt,’ sex abuse and his Catholic upbringing
In an interview with Rob Weinert-Kendt, the playwright John Patrick Shanley discusses the continued resonance of ‘Doubt.‘
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Interview: ‘Terce: A Practical Breviary’ composer Heather Christian believes in theater
“Terce: A Practical Breviary” doesn’t feel all that far from a worship experience—at least, what an ideal worship experience might be.