Hamilton
We were with the fans at Broadway’s big reopening for “Hamilton,” “Wicked,” “Chicago,” and “The Lion King.” Plus, “Chicago” star Bianca Marroquín on how the evening “stunned” her.
Alexander Hamilton was the subject of the first political sex scandal in American history, and revealed all about it in a pamphlet written to defend himself against his enemies.
Believe it or not, there was joy in 2020, too. From the spectacle of the Super Bowl Halftime Show to the silliness of “Eurovision Song Contest,” a look back at what made us smile.
Each Deaf Broadway production uses Zoom recordings to interpret shows, often playing captioned video side-by-side as actors sign. The result: theater “for the Deaf, by the Deaf.”
The energy that manifests in a live staged performance—in the room where it happens, if you will—fizzles when filtered through a TV screen. But “Hamilton” still has much to offer.
After years of saltiness over not being rich or organized enough to see “Hamilton,” one Broadway enthusiast reacts to news that a movie version is coming to Disney+ this summer.
Christine Baranski, Bebe Neuwirth, Jon Batiste, and the makers of “Bolero Juilliard” tell Tim Teeman how 100 performers made this mini-epic while in lockdown all over the world.