Michael Paulson
Theatre Reporter at The New York Times
Theater reporter at The New York Times.
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Paulson
LuPone said she was "deeply sorry for the words" she used in her criticism of Kecia Lewis and Audra McDonald when asked about a dispute over Broadway noise levels. Patti LuPone, a three-time Tony-winning actress, has for years been known, and generally celebrated, as one of the most outspoken performers on Broadway. Her reprimands of poorly behaved audience members have made her a folk hero of sorts in the theater business, and her grudges and grievances have had a certain real-talk charm.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Paulson
The 1980s musical "Chess," about a love triangle set in the geopolitically charged world of top-level chess tournaments at the height of the Cold War, will be revived on Broadway for the first time this fall, with Lea Michele playing one of the three starring roles. Michele was last on Broadway in 2023 in "Funny Girl," whose fortunes she revived after stepping in as a replacement when the initial lead wasn't working out.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Paulson
The offstage tensions between three Broadway stars became public after a dispute over sound levels, an Instagram post and a much-talked-about magazine article. Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald are two of the biggest Broadway stars of recent decades. So when LuPone pointedly referred to McDonald as "not a friend" in a new interview with The New Yorker, it caused quite a stir.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Michael Paulson
A commercial producer active on Broadway and in the West End has signed a long-term lease for Astor Place Theater with plans for shows there. For 34 years, Astor Place Theater, a humble venue in a historic building in Lower Manhattan, was occupied by a single show, Blue Man Group, which spun profits out of performance art.
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1 week ago |
straitstimes.com | Michael Paulson
NEW YORK – Broadway’s run of starry plays shows no signs of slowing down. English comedian James Corden and American actors Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale will return to Broadway in a revival of Art, a Yasmina Reza comedy that explores what happens to a three-way friendship when one of the men spends a lot of money on a painting that is mostly a white canvas. First staged in France in 1994, the show made it to Broadway in 1998, and won the Tony Award for best play that season.
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