Dear Reader,

When the book on 2023 is written, long chapters will be devoted to Barbenheimer, the WGA and SAG strikes, Scandoval, Succession, and the twin juggernaut tours (and years) of Beyoncé and Taylor Swift. Accordingly, we spent a great deal of time at Vulture covering those subjects and the conversations around them. (The book better cite us properly.)

"The Best Movies of 2023, According to John Waters" by John Walters

Owing in large part to how much of my mental desktop is cluttered with remnants of those giant topics, the exercise of putting together this year’s 20 Most-Read Vulture Articles list (which will be available later this month) was particularly rewarding. We produced so much work that continues to make me proud, starting in January with Rebecca Alter’s delightfully manicPark City Confidentialnewsletter out of Sundance and carrying through this month, when we have our Timothée Chalamet deep dive Timmy Wéek, the 25 Days of Reality TV countdown, and a vast assortment of year-in-review posts running concurrently. I think back to the spring, when we contended with a deluge of significant shows all ending their seasons or series around the same time, and remain in awe of our TV team’s juggling act; if you see a member of our TV staff at a bar this holiday season, please buy them a drink. If it’s one of the editors, make it a double.

The 20 Most-Read Articles list will provide an assortment of great end-of-year reading, and I encourage you to similarly tab away with the links above. But since there’s still more to celebrate from the 2023 Vulture archive, below is a selection of other standouts. From sprawling features (we introduced a new set of annual awards!) to sublime blogs, they’re a snapshot of what we were doing this year in between the other things we were doing. Thanks for reading them, and everything else. Have a great holiday.

— Neil Janowitz, editor, Vulture

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Stage Whisperer Returns, Just Like So Many Andrew Lloyd Webber Shows Ballroom Cats, Canceled Jesus, a merry start for Merrily, and a fight over Spamalot’s Taran Killam, all in one place.

What to See on (and Off)(and Off–Off) Broadway Let Vulture’s theater desk be your guide.

Still Popular For Wicked’s 20th birthday, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel reunite to talk about high notes, low rumors, and onstage emergencies.

‘I Can Do Things to You With My Voice’ Fifty-one years of acting. Hundreds of roles. One Samuel L. Jackson.

How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth Since her audacious debut, the author has moved toward realism — and become the least interesting version of herself.

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