Helen Shaw
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Angela Lansbury Could Play Cozy or Criminal, Grand or Grand Guignol
From Gaslight to Mame to Sweeney Todd to Beauty and the Beast, with a long, comfortable stop in Cabot Cove. → Read More
A Richard III Made Not So Glorious
The production works against the best qualities of its star, Danai Gurira. → Read More
A Hamlet That May Have Been Nobler in the West End
Robert Icke’s production lost something on its way across the Atlantic. → Read More
Will Arbery, Back in Texas With Corsicana
Deirdre O’Connell and Jamie Brewer star in the latest work from the Heroes of the Fourth Turning playwright. → Read More
Stroller-Size Theater: Josh Azouz’s Buggy Baby
Theater reviews of Josh Azouz’s ‘Buggy Baby’ at the Astoria Performing Arts Center and Mona Mansour’s ‘Beginning Days of True Jubilation’ at the New Ohio. → Read More
In The Orchard, Baryshnikov Co-Stars With a Robotic Arm
Theater Review: ‘The Orchard,’ an adaptation of Chekhov’s play, tarring Mikhail Baryshnikov at BAC in New York → Read More
Circle Jerk, Now in the Flesh
Plus a two-part art-world sitcom: Weekend at Barry’s/Lesbian Lighthouse. → Read More
The Highs, Lows, and Whoas From the 2022 Tony Awards
Highs, Lows, and Whoas from the 2022 Tony Awards in New York, including wins for ‘A Strange Loop’ and ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ → Read More
What Should Win at the 2022 Tony Awards?
What should win at the 2022 Tony Awards? A conversation between Vulture’s theater critic Helen Shaw and writers Jackson McHenry and Devon Ivie about the best of the 2021-2022 Broadway season including Caroline, or Change, A Strange Loop, and Dana H. → Read More
Alice Childress’s Wedding Band Returns, Well-Burnished
Childress’s bitter play, now married to a modern sensibility, returns on a wave of acclaim. → Read More
Something Distanced This Way Comes: Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga in Macbeth
Celebrity squares off against experiment, from Birnam Wood to Dunsinane. → Read More
POTUS and Mr. Saturday Night Mine Laughs From Behind the Scenes
Theater Reviews: ‘POTUS’ at the Shubert Theatre and ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ starring Billy Crystal at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway → Read More
If Someone Takes a Spill: Funny Girl Returns
Theater Review: Beanie Feldstein as Fanny Brice in the Revival of ‘Funny Girl’ at the August Wilson Theatre in NYC → Read More
In Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen, Cruelty Provides the Muse
In the play Hangmen, an out-of-work executioner encounters a creep from the big city. Martin McDonagh’s play is set in England in the 1960s, after the end of capital punishment. It’s now on Broadway starring David Threlfall and Alfie Allen. → Read More
for colored girls Returns to Broadway in a Triumphant Revival
A review of the revival of ‘for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf’ at the Booth Theatre. → Read More
The Minutes Feels a Few Years Too Late
The Broadway run of the play The Minutes by Tracy Letts was delayed by two years. Now that it’s finally opening, the real world has outstripped its satire, which centers on a mundane yet horrible city council meeting. → Read More
American Buffalo: Gorgeous Performances, Small Author Issue
A review of David Mamet’s ‘American Buffalo’ at Circle in the Square, featuring Laurence Fishburne, Sam Rockwell, and Darren Criss. It’s a beautifully served slice of classic Mamet … if you still have the appetite. → Read More
The Little Prince Crash-Lands on This Planet
Theater Review: ‘The Little Prince,’ adapted as a dance-theater piece, opens at the Broadway Theatre in New York City → Read More
Suffs Casts a Complicated Vote for a Complicated History
Theater review: ‘Suffs’ by Shaina Taub, a musical about suffragettes and women’s right to vote, opening at the Public Theater in New York City → Read More
Does Take Me Out Still Hit the Strike Zone?
Richard Greenberg’s 2002 play about a gay baseball superstar returns. → Read More