Aparté is a magazine of theater, performance & culture. An aparté is the moment an actor turns from the scene and speaks straight to the audience — the aside. That is the magazine's promise: spoken to you, not at you.

What we publish

News, features, interviews, and the business of live entertainment — with three instruments underneath the journalism: a production database (every show, house, opening and final performance we can verify), the Ledger (the Broadway League's weekly grosses, archived and read closely), and the Callboard (a jobs board where the pay is always shown and posting is free).

How we work

We do not review performances nobody on staff attended. We do not invent quotes, attendance or access. A press release is a tip, not an article. Interviews are conversations we conducted, public on-record conversations attributed as such, or published interviews quoted and linked — never invented access. Corrections are published, not buried.

The name on the work

Everything in Aparté is signed The Aparté Desk — the newsroom's collective signature, explained on the Masthead. As named correspondents join the bench, they will sign their own work under their own names; the magazine does not invent people, and it does not use pen names. Research and drafting tools are used in the newsroom; every published piece is verified against sources and edited before it runs. That disclosure is policy, not fine print.

The archive

Aparté's archive is built from the public record: seasons of grosses, the full calendar, the houses themselves — kept current, and corrected in public when it is wrong.