‘People love to complain about the dining halls, but they usually kill it,’ says Avantika, who plays Karen in the ‘Mean Girls’ reboot, and who is balancing her freshman year at Columbia with Fashion Week fittings, auditions, and ‘SNL’ after-parties.
.@ralter has an idea for boosting Broadway ticket sales: Let audiences ride the barber-chair death slide onstage at ‘Sweeney Todd’ during intermission. It looks really fun.
Stereophonic mines the agony and the ecstasy of creation as it zooms in on a music studio in 1976. Here, an up-and-coming rock band recording a new album finds itself suddenly on the cusp of superstardom. The ensuing pressures could spark their breakup or their breakthrough. In Stereophonic, Adjmi invites the audience to immerse themselves with fly-on-the-wall intimacy in the powder keg process of a band on the brink of blowing up. In his Critic’s Pick review, Jesse Green of The New York Times exclaimed, “The play, Adjmi’s best so far, is as rich and lustrous as they come. You could even call it platinum,” while praising Aukin’s “relentlessly compelling production.” Jackson McHenry of New York Magazine enthused, “If you’ve recently tried to sate yourself with imitation-crab rock-history dramatizations, you’ll find that Stereophonic is, refreshingly, the real thing.” And David Cote of The Observer, lauded Stereophonic “an instant classic”.
Vulture theater critics Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry discuss their most anticipated theater of the season from ‘Cabaret,’ to ‘Enemy of the People,’ ‘Uncle Vanya,’ and more.