Debate

What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There

Shakespeare’s ‘Sublimely, Disturbingly Smutty Effect’ Must Endure

Complicated Stories of Affirmative Action

Is Harry Styles Co-opting a Queer Identity?

Scott Joplin’s Ragtime Is Ambrosia. Here’s Why It Matters.

Stephen Sondheim Wrote My Life’s Soundtrack

A Song for Stephen Sondheim, by Julie Andrews and Others

A Spotlight on the Women Who Write the Plays

A Racial Reckoning Is Underway in Theater. Where Is the Gender Reckoning?

Cultural Appropriation Can Be Beautiful

It Wasn’t Just My Life on That Stage. So Was My Purpose.

The World Expects Black Men to Make Themselves Smaller. My Brother Never Did.

Memo to Democrats: ‘Grow Up. Do Your Job.’

Let Broadway’s Return Be a Prayer for Healing

My Playbill Memories

Martin Peretz, on Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Tony Kushner: Larry Kramer Howled the Truths We Needed to Hear

What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Living With Pandemics

Terrence McNally’s ‘Unique Gift’

It Got Better. That’s My Testimony.