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Oskar Eustis, who's stepping down as the artistic director of New York's Public Theater in 2028, shook up the arts world with his comment that the American nonprofit theater movement was over. He explains why and what needs to be done to move on.

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For the PBS culture series CANVAS, arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown caught up with Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, who have received Tony nominations for their fresh performances in Death of a Salesman. Watch the full segment, which also features footage from the production. 

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An appreciation of playwright Tom Stoppard, known for such plays as "Rosencrants and Guildenstern are Dead," "Travesties," "The Real Thing" and the trilogy "The Coast of Utopia"

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An Oklahoma state law that prohibits equity, diversity, and inclusion has forced the University of Central Oklahoma to start cancelling its productions.

Students at the University of Central Oklahoma say a new state law impacted the school’s decision not to support their play. They are moving forward independently with community funding.

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Below is a list of theater books that were published in 2024, most of which I read and enjoyed (with caveats), several I hope to get to in the new year. Beneath that is a list of 10 scripts or librettos of Broadway plays or musicals produced in 2024 or slated for Spring 2025, most of which were published in previous years. If you have time to read just one theater book published in 2024, I recommend Richard Schoch’s idiosyncratic analysis of Sondheim. (And if you haven’t read them yet, here are two more published recommended books published in previous years - James Shapiro’s 2020…

Cole Escola and Nicole Scherzinger made spectacular Broadway debuts this year, justly acclaimed, but less attention-grabbing performances in less conspicuous productions also impressed, albeit more quietly. Here are a dozen performances of 2024, listed (more or less) alphabetically, with a dozen more below them worth acknowledging. After all, for every Jessica Lange as the mother of “Mother Play” there was Ron Bottitta as the father in “Fatherland.” The list includes links to my reviews, which I mostly excerpt to explain my first dozen choices.

Denzel Washington as Othello, Jonathan Groff as singer Bobby Darin, George Clooney as journalist Edward R. Murrow: The Spring Broadway season promises a starry and vibrant mix: original shows (plays by Tony winner Branden Jacob-Jenkins and by Pulitzer winner Sanaz Toossi; a musical co-conceived by Idina Menzel, who stars in it);  revivals (including one on its 22nd run, another on its 27th) and adaptations (of two movies, two TV series, a novel, an album and a comic strip.) They are performed by newcomers (Clooney is making his Broadway debut, as are Succession’s Sarah Snook, and Breaking Bad’s Bob Odenkirk), but also by beloved veterans: Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga together in a Sondheim revue; Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta; Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren in Jason Robert Brown’s chamber musical (which is one of several acclaimed Off-Broadway shows making it to Broadway.)