Director Jessica Grindstaff on Port(al), Her Innovative, Multimedia Collaboration With the Brooklyn Youth Chorus
While the building—its size and scale, its history, its symbolism and 80-foot ceilings and epiphanies and imperfections—is undoubtedly a character in the show, “the grounding element of the whole work…
A 10-Year-Old Reviews Broadway’s ‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’?
What is Stranger Things: The First Shadow? This was not a question that bedeviled my 10-year-old son, happy as he was to be headed to Broadway and enfolded in the…
Din Thomas thinks Tom Aspinall will headline UFC 317 vs. Ciryl Gane
Din Thomas predicts UFC 317 during International Fight Week will be headlined by a matchup no one is talking about. One of the promotion’s annual cornerstone events is exactly 60…
Randy Brown flattens Nicolas Dalby
With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best knockouts from April 2025: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner…
USC recruit Alijah Arenas avoids major injuries in single-car crash
Best first-round NBA playoff matchups The For The Hoops crew discuss the most exciting first-round NBA playoff series, including Lakers vs. Timberwolves and Rockets vs. Warriors. Five-star high school basketball…
Hugh Jackman and Sonia Friedman on Their New Theater Company, Together
The Creditors team would head down to Minetta Lane later that evening to see Jackman and Beatty run through their piece—exactly the kind of cross-pollination among actors that Together’s founders…
Jonathan Groff on the Urgent Intimacy of ‘Just in Time’ on Broadway
Eight years ago, Jonathan Groff’s friend Ted Chapin took him to see Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 and then to dinner at Orso. There, Chapin, who was…
Zoë Winters, Marisa Tomei, and Lucas Hedges on Celia Rowlson-Hall’s ‘SISSY’
The creation process is challenging enough for an independent choreographer, vying for grants and rehearsal space and attention in a scattered environment. Add in a young child and an ailing…
How Jinkx Monsoon Made Her Way to Broadway in ‘Pirates! The Penzance Musical’
Monsoon shares the Pirates! marquee with a pair of Broadway icons: David Hyde Pierce and Ramin Karimloo, with whom she shares a close friend, Drag Race host Michelle Visage, his…