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The Morning After: Smash Ends Its Season, With a Bombshell and a Whimper
Quick spoilers for the season finale of Smash below: …and so Smash concludes its first season as it began, wildly applauding for itself. The season-ender (NBC...
Scenes from the Class Struggle In Row J
Whatever show gets the biggest boost from next month's Tonys, it likely won't match last year's juggernaut, The Book of Mormon, which grabbed nine awards and has...

Low Comedy, High Concept
One Man, Two Guvnors, the hit London farce that opened last week on Broadway, is shameless: it will do literally anything for a laugh. There are mistaken...

Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita: One Sings, the Other Doesn't
Let us now remember the days when Andrew Lloyd Webber was more than just a Broadway punch line. The British composer, you’ll recall, was once the hot new thing...

Newsboys Striking, Garland Freaking: Broadway's Newsies and End of the Rainbow
In a mediocre season for Broadway musicals, I had some hopes for Newsies. The new Disney-produced musical (based on the studio’s 1992 film, a box office failure)...
Photo Essays

Broadway's Hits and Misses of the Spring
With the Tony nominations out, TIME's Richard Zoglin reviews a flurry of Broadway's late-season arrivals

Glee's Broadway Roots
A look at the theatrical backgrounds behind the stars of the hit Fox television show
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10 Memorable Depictions of Mormons in Pop Culture
With The Book of Mormon the sensation of Broadway, and Mormons from Harry Reid to Glenn Beck stoking political debate on the center and the right, the Church of...

Top 10 Movies That Shouldn't Have Made It to Broadway
Richard Donner, director of the 1985 millennial classic The Goonies, says he would love to take the film to Broadway. We hope he spares us a flop. TIME looks at...
