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Rakie Ayola, a powerhouse of the British stage and screen, is barreling toward an ADR session in an Uber for a film she can’t quite talk about yet. It’s a chaotic (and amusing) backdrop for a conversation with Clementine Melvin about The Authenticator, the comic…
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RAKIE AYOLA ON FINDING THE HUMOUR IN THE DARK
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April 11, 2026
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QWEEN JEAN ON THE RADICAL SPIRIT OF CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL
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The ecstatic, high-energy revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York reimagines the feline competition at the heart of the show’s episodic string of character numbers as a night in the New York City ballroom scene. Glamour cats of all…
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April 3, 2026
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Arthur Miller’s Plea for us to Pay Attention.
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When Arthur Miller plays are revived, they don’t reflect contemporary time or mores in the way that other writers might. Broken Glass takes place at the dawn of World War II, All My Sons takes place in the wake of it; The Crucible takes place…
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April 2, 2026
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RAKIE AYOLA ON FINDING THE HUMOUR IN THE DARK
Read
Rakie Ayola, a powerhouse of the British stage and screen, is barreling toward an ADR session in an Uber for a film she can’t quite talk about yet. It’s a chaotic (and amusing) backdrop for a conversation with Clementine Melvin about The Authenticator, the comic…
Date
April 11, 2026
Read
6 min. read
02
QWEEN JEAN ON THE RADICAL SPIRIT OF CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL
Read
The ecstatic, high-energy revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York reimagines the feline competition at the heart of the show’s episodic string of character numbers as a night in the New York City ballroom scene. Glamour cats of all…
Date
April 3, 2026
Read
5 min.
03
Arthur Miller’s Plea for us to Pay Attention.
Read
When Arthur Miller plays are revived, they don’t reflect contemporary time or mores in the way that other writers might. Broken Glass takes place at the dawn of World War II, All My Sons takes place in the wake of it; The Crucible takes place…
Date
April 2, 2026
Read
5 min. read
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Arthur Miller’s Plea for us to Pay Attention.
Sam Moore
5 min. read
When Arthur Miller plays are revived, they don’t reflect contemporary time or mores in the way that other writers might. Broken Glass takes place at the dawn of World War…
Turandot: Problematic Fave
Kyle Turner
6 min. read
Problematic fave Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Turandot has been in repertory at the Met Opera on and off for nearly four decades, well after most of the Western world in…
OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE AT THE OPERA
Sarah Hyde
3 min. read
Art Writer Sarah Hyde explores the production of La Bohème, Part of the Famous Glyndebourne Opera House’s Autumn Season.
RAKIE AYOLA ON FINDING THE HUMOUR IN THE DARK
Clementine Melvin
6 min. read
Rakie Ayola, a powerhouse of the British stage and screen, is barreling toward an ADR session in an Uber for a film she can’t quite talk about yet. It’s a…
QWEEN JEAN ON THE RADICAL SPIRIT OF CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL
Kate Purdum
5 min.
The ecstatic, high-energy revival of Cats: The Jellicle Ball at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York reimagines the feline competition at the heart of the show’s episodic string of character…
JOCELYN BIOH’S COMEDY TRAVELS (WELL) FROM HARLEM TO HAMMERSMITH.
Louise Snouck
6 min. read
At the London premiere of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding last week at the Lyric Hammersmith, the air was alight with shrieks and uninhibited, riotous laughter—the sounds of an audience recognizing…
SETTING THE SCENE WITH DESIGNER GARY MCCANN
Louise Snouck
3 min. read
From a childhood spent building worlds out of Lego in rural Ireland to designing for the historic stages of La Fenice and La Scala, set and costume designer Gary McCann…
THEODORA SKIPITARES: THE PUPPET MASTER
Melodrama
Theodora Skipitares has spent forty years building a puppet population in New York City. Her work emerged from the 1970s feminist second wave, a time when the body was the…
WHITNEY WHITE’S THEATRICAL PILGRIMAGE
Louise Snouck
6 min. read
Theatre polymath and artistic force Whitney White spent the last month on a sort of pilgrimage to the "Holy Land" of theater makers. Otherwise known as Stratford-upon-Avon, the town where…
