Can Black writers flourish in a marketplace dictated by white tastes?

What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.

Sondheim’s stories and lyrics always seemed to be addressing you personally. You couldn’t simply watch his musicals. Eventually you had to contend with them.

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” is also a soul-deep tribute by Lin-Manuel Miranda to an artist who inspired him at a formative age.

Musicals are not merely a passion of mine—they were often my most profound experiences of prayer.

Transcendent, communal moments like these, so long denied us by this still raging pandemic, have been worth the wait, and they are more than worth the trouble.