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Cole Escola poses with their award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for "Oh, Mary!" during The 78th Annual Tony Awards on June 08, 2025. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions)

Cole Escola was born for this

Coleman Spilde
Broadway’s full of drama onstage and off. Now, one icon’s words have the whole industry choosing sides. (Cavan Images/Getty Images)

Broadway calls out Patti LuPone

CK Smith
A performance of the "Oedipus" plays by Sophocles, 1996. (Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images)

How theater can save democracy

Bernd Reiter
Barbra Streisand receives The Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award on July 01, 2023 in Malibu, California. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation)

Highlights from Barbra Streisand memoir

Nardos Haile
Fiddler On The Roof (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images)

"Fiddler" ushered in 1960s Jewish Pride

Gwydion Suilebhan, Steven Gimbel
Andre Royo performs "Drinking in America" (Jeremy Daniel)

Andre Royo's rock bottom to career high

D. Watkins
Chris Perfetti (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Abbott" star on cast ad-libs and LeBron

D. Watkins
John Riddle, Laird Mackintosh and Emilie Kouatchou at the closing performance of "Phantom of the Opera" held at Majestic Theatre on April 16, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by (Nina Westervelt/Variety via Getty Images)

"Phantom of the Opera" welcomed outcasts

Alison Stine
Scottish Ballet dancers Roseanna Leney as The Sugarplum Fairy, Jerome Barnes as The Nutcracker Prince and Javier Andreu as The Rat King posing in The Dome bar on November 25, 2021 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Horror stories of "The Nutcracker"

Alison Stine
Lea Michele as "Fanny Brice" in "Funny Girl" on Broadway at The August Wilson Theatre on September 6, 2022 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage/Getty Images)

Why one Lea Michele rumor won't die

Alison Stine
Beanie Feldstein and Lea Michele (Photo illustration by Salon/Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for (RED))

Why the "Funny Girl" casting matters

Alison Stine
Actor Joseph Serrano screams at the voice of Richard Nixon while driving in the University of Northern Colorado production of Stephen Sondheim's "Assassins" in 2009 (Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Sondheim's much-maligned "Assassins"

Alison Stine
Jenn Colella, Emily Walton, Q. Smith and Joel Hatch in “Come From Away" (Apple TV+)

Broadway's 9/11 musical lands on our TV

Caroline Cao
Claire Danes as Carrie in HOMELAND (Sifeddine Elamine/SHOWTIME)

Overcoming cliched disability depictions

Magda Romanska - The Conversation
Ryan Murphy (Getty/Frazer Harrison)

Why Murphy's adapting "Boys in the Band"

Jude Dry - Indiewire
Aaron Sorkin (AP/Taylor Jewell)

Why Sorkin started reading Breitbart

Andrew O'Hehir
(Roberto Chamorro)

The play's the thing for Havana Club

Erin Keane
Heidi Schreck in "What the Constitution Means to Me" (Joan Marcus)

What the Constitution means to women

Amanda Marcotte
Cuba Gooding Jr. (AP/Chris Pizzello)

A heart to heart with Cuba Gooding Jr.

D. Watkins
The cast of "Hamilton" (Getty/Theo Wargo)

"Hamilton" makes more history

Rachel Leah

Get theater quality audio in your home

Salon Marketplace
Orson Welles in "Othello" (United Artists)

Inventing Iago for the modern age

Colin Fleming
Toxic Avenger; Lloyd Kaufman (Getty/Thos Robinson)

The most prolific filmmaker in America

Frank Radice
George Takei and cast members of 'Allegiance' (Matthew Murphy)

George Takei: "We are making progress"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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