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Broadway

Arts Business

The CEO of Hamilton Inc.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.

Michael Sokolove New York Times Magazine Apr 2016 10min Permalink

Arts

Is America’s Favorite Playwright Too Much for New York?

Lauren Gunderson on the eve of her New York premiere.

Dan Kois Slate Dec 2019 20min Permalink

Music

Tina Turner Is Having the Time of Her Life

A Swiss chateau. A Broadway musical all about her. And absolutely nothing she has to do.

Amanda Hess New York Times Sep 2019 20min Permalink

Arts

Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

Parul Sehgal New York Times Magazine Jul 2018 20min Permalink

Arts

Rent: The Oral History

The story of the landmark musical’s improbable success.

Rebecca Milzoff New York May 2016 25min Permalink

Arts

Out of the Past

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

John Jeremiah Sullivan New York Times Magazine Mar 2016 Permalink

Arts

Tavi Gevinson Just Graduated High School

A profile of the Rookie editor-in-chief, who makes her Broadway debut next week.

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Previously: Tavi Gevinson on the Longform Podcast.

Amy Larocca New York Aug 2014 15min Permalink

Arts

Nora Ephron's Final Act

A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.

Jacob Bernstein New York Times Magazine Mar 2013 25min Permalink

Why She Fell

On tragedy, mythology, and the spectacular crash of the Spider-Man musical and its creator, Julie Taymor.

Daniel Mendelsohn New York Review of Books May 2011 Permalink

Arts Media Religion

Latter-Day Saints

On Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and their new Broadway musical about Mormons, which “may just be their highest artistic achievement yet.”

Carl Swanson New York Mar 2011 15min Permalink