‘The Who’s Tommy,’ Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff’s rock opera turned Broadway musical, newly revived at the Nederlander, is a show from another time and culture. But the tension that disconnect brings is fascinating.
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This week in theater news: Ariana will host the Tonys, Lempicka is giving Repo! The Generic Opera, and Bronies are an untapped Broadway audience.
Liza Birkenmeier’s ‘Grief Hotel’ is a sneaky marvel, a discontinuous and fragmented play about a quasi-spa marketed to anyone experiencing a loss.
Ariana DeBose is hosting the Tony Awards for the third consecutive year, and this year, she’ll get to have a script after she was rendered wordless in 2023 by the WGA strike.
Victoria Pedretti is starring with Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli on Broadway, but that doesn’t mean she knows their work. The actress hasn’t watched Succession or The Sopranos, but our theory is that she just doesn’t have a Max subscription.
Nicole Scherzinger is set to star in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Sunset Boulevard’ on Broadway, directed by Jamie Lloyd, this September. Scherzinger and Webber may be former nemeses, but all is washed away in the name of theatre.
Revived at the Irish Rep, Brian Friel’s ‘Philadelphia, Here I Come!,’ his 1964 breakthrough, shows an artist already getting on his writerly feet.
Turns out what Merrily We Roll Along needs most is three actors who can really bring it home, and here they are.
A redemption play that betrays its own premise.
The legendary theater’s “first city” location will open November 16.