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Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, Honey

 In Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes. By Sara Holdren
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The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s Play

 Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms. By Bilge Ebiri
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What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway

 Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide. By Vulture Editors
  1. theater review
    Mama Grizzlies Tear Into Lunch in oh, HoneyIn Jeana Scotti’s play, everyone’s got a son facing sexual-misconduct accusations, and the waitperson is taking notes.
    By Sara Holdren
  2. audra’s turn
    Gypsy Casts Someone Other Than Audra McDonaldFour months after teasing the Broadway revival.
    By Jason P. Frank
  3. tiff 2024
    The Piano Lesson Can’t Quite Live Up to August Wilson’s PlayMalcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a worthwhile and occasionally quite moving adaptation. But it lives uncomfortably between two forms.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. theater review
    Counting and Cracking Is a Joyous Generational Square-offPlus a smart new play, ‘The Ask,’ at the Wild Project.
    By Sara Holdren
  5. theater review
    The Roommate Barely Unpacks Its Own BoxesIt settles in, and then it’s gone.
    By Sara Holdren
  7. extra extra
    Brendan Fraser Is Staging Another ComebackThe Oscar winner will star in Samuel D. Hunter’s Grangeville in early 2025.
    By Jason P. Frank
  8. spicy takes
    Patti LuPone Can Shade Madonna With or Without Words“I’ve seen her onstage and I’ve seen her in a movie, and I went, ‘Umm, okay.’”
    By Jason P. Frank
  9. rip
    James Earl Jones, Acting Legend, Dead at 93The voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa was accomplished on stage and screen.
    By Justin Curto
  10. oh hello again
    John Mulaney Will Reunite With Richard Kind on BroadwayLikely featuring less — or, at the very least, a moderate amount of — tuna.
    By Hershal Pandya
  11. egot watch
    Benj Pasek and Justin Paul EGOT With OMITBMore like EEGGOOTT (because there’s two of them).
    By Bethy Squires
  12. theater review
    Apps, Drinks, and Drama at Table 17Kara Young eats, spectacularly.
    By Sara Holdren
  13. theater review
    The Marriage of Figaro, Almost Solo and Fully AlfrescoThe countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo sings every part as his co-stars lip-sync.
    By Sara Holdren
  14. the rehearsal
    Opera Singer Anthony Roth Costanzo Can Do It AllThe countertenor is mounting a one-person adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island this fall.
    As told to Justin Davidson
  15. the rehearsal
    Larry Owens Loves to Practice“Rehearsal is limitless options. It’s blue skies. It’s best idea wins.”
    As told to Tomi Obaro
  16. fall preview 2024
    Nicole Scherzinger Never Stopped DreamingThe former Pussycat Doll stages a comeback with Sunset Blvd. on Broadway.
    By Jackson McHenry
  17. fall preview 2024
    18 Plays and Musicals We Can’t Wait to See This FallThe season of the diva is upon us.
    By Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry
  18. health
    Ian McKellen Is Still Recovering from His Player Kings FallThough he’s been dealing with “agonizing pains,” he says a fat suit saved him from even more serious injuries.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  19. theater review
    Sutton Foster Brings Some Bounce to Once Upon a MattressWorking off a book freshened up by Amy Sherman-Palladino, the actress gives it her all in this transfer of an Encores! production.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  20. a-b-c
    Roman Roy Has Big Shoes to Fill AgainJoining Bob Odenkirk and Bill Burr in Glengarry Glen Ross.
    By Jason P. Frank
  21. theater review
    A Poodle Room on Wall Street: Life and TrustThe immersive follow-up to Sleep No More imagines sex and horror in early-20th-century Fidi.
    By Jackson McHenry
  22. theater review
    Plot Twists, Slick and Surreal: Job and Six CharactersA tech-thriller unknots itself on Broadway, and a metatheatrical revolution keeps probing.
    By Jackson McHenry
  23. jamie is over and jamie is gone
    Nick Jonas to Cheat on Adrienne Warren on BroadwayIn The Last Five Years, a show in which he will play a Jewish man.
    By Jason P. Frank
  24. diva-off
    Idina Menzel Is Venturing Into the RedwoodAnd, even more importantly, into the 2025 Best Actress in a Musical Tony race.
    By Jason P. Frank
  25. theater review
    Empire: The Musical Stacks Up 102 Stories, Every One a ClichéA cringey new musical about the rise of the Empire State Building.
    By Sara Holdren
  26. theater review
    Oh, Mary! Is Excellently UncivilCole Escola’s Mary Todd Lincoln farce transfers uptown, preserving the union between absurdity and hilarity.
    By Sara Holdren
  27. theater review
    ERS’s Ulysses Is a Little Stately, a Little PlumpThink you’re escaping and run into yourself.
    By Sara Holdren
  28. theater review
    The Speaker and the Upstart Talk It Out: N/AIt’s Pelosi vs. AOC onstage, and Holland Taylor, as Nancy, gets all the zingers.
    By Jackson McHenry
  29. backstories
    Faust Goes to FidiThe producers of Sleep No More are back with the whirlwind immersive-theater project Life and Trust.
    By Rebecca Alter
  30. coming soon
    The Odes of Tammy Faye Will Play the Palace (With Christian Borle)Andrew Rannells won’t be in the Elton John Broadway show, but someone from Falsettos will be.
    By Jason P. Frank
  31. exit interview
    ‘The Team Wanted It to Be the Next Mamma Mia!’Corey Cott on why theatergoers and Tonys voters snubbed The Heart of Rock and Roll.
    By Devon Ivie
  32. theater review
    Three-Sister Harmony in Find Me HerePlus an array of short-run summer shows to watch for if they return.
    By Sara Holdren
  33. theater review
    The Drag-Ball Cats Is GoodWell, now, how about that!
    By Sara Holdren
  34. theater review
    Looking Back at Bad Men: Dark Noon and Pre-Existing ConditionColonialism and abuse, addressed onstage.
    By Sara Holdren
  35. scene report
    A Tonys Diary: Seeing Outsiders Coming, the Co-Pro Conundrum, and Party-HoppingOur critic reports on making the rounds inside and after Broadway’s biggest night.
    By Jackson McHenry
  36. bienven-ew
    So You Saw That Creepy Eddie Redmayne Cabaret PerformanceYou’re not alone. There is help.
    By Rebecca Alter
  37. tony awards 2024
    The Highs, Lows, and Whoas of the 2024 Tony AwardsAriana DeBose’s third year hosting saw tears, rain indoors, but sadly no onstage elephants.
    By Vulture Editors
  38. awards szn
    The 2024 Tony Awards WinnersWhich water feature/fire/flying car did the Tonys love the most?
    By Jason P. Frank
  39. stay gold
    Angelina Jolie’s Tonys Date Was Her Daughter, VivienneAs a producer assistant, Vivienne even took the stage when The Outsiders won Best Musical.
    By Bethy Squires
  40. theater review
    Return of the Musical Rumble: The OutsidersDoes the Tony Award-winning stage adaptation stay gold?
    By Sara Holdren
  41. theater review
    Here’s to Them. Who’s Like Them? Damn Few.Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
    By Sara Holdren
  42. what about weird al?
    Daniel Radcliffe Thanks Dad for Playing Sondheim in the CarWinning his first Tony Award for Merrily We Roll Along.
    By Bethy Squires
  43. tony awards 2024
    Kendall Roy Still Loves the Little GuyJeremy Strong went long on his Tony acceptance speech to thank the ushers.
    By Jason P. Frank
  44. theater review
    Stereophonic Moves to Broadway, and Thunder HappensThe Tony Award-winning play is a love song, bittersweet and wounded and ferociously loyal, to the act of making art.
    By Sara Holdren
  45. awards chatter
    Jay-Z Zooms in to the 2024 Tony AwardsDuetting “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys.
    By Bethy Squires
  46. musicals
    Nas Wants to Bring Beat Street to BroadwayHe’s working on a stage musical adaptation of the 1984 film.
    By Jennifer Zhan
  47. tonys 2024
    Our 100 Percent Accurate Tonys PredictionsA very unsettled season means there could be plenty of surprises. We’ve correctly anticipated them all.
    By Jackson McHenry
  48. theater review
    Time Out of Mind: The Welkin and HilmaTwo plays that mess with your sense of now.
    By Sara Holdren
  49. theater review
    The Encores! Titanic Gives Its Level BestNo hydraulic tilt lifts on this return voyage.
    By Jackson McHenry
  50. theater review
    Coach Coach Goes to Camp CampDoes Bailey Williams’s wellness-industry satire self-actualize?
    By Sara Holdren
  51. good golly
    There’s a New Dolly Coming to BroadwayDolly Parton’s jukebox musical, Hello, I’m Dolly, will hit the stage in 2026.
    By Justin Curto
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