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Jackalope Theatre Company's 'In the Canyon' and 'Lured' at Theater for the New City take on social justice issues in brand new productions.
International stage and recording star Ute Lemper performs a one-woman show inspired by an intimate conversation with legendary performer Marlene Dietrich.
The latest play from Chicago's Red Theater involves two actors: One has rehearsed the play. The second has never even read it.
The New York Pops was joined by New York Theatre Ballet and Essential Voices USA for their first concert of the season at Carnegie Hall.
Jamie Shriner's stylistically confusing new musical kicks off Underscore Theatre Company's 2018-19 season.
Hansol Jung's new play with music, about two people from two cultures forced to choose between family and freedom, fails to take flight.
Four Broadway stars take on a small-town controversy that makes national headlines in this new musical directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw.
Feinstein's 54 Below continues its innovating programming with a live musical performance of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'
David Rossmer and Steve Rosen's new musical about rolling with life's punches finally arrives Off-Broadway after engagements at Paper Mill Playhouse and the New York Musical Festival.
Ben Vereen chats about his life philosophy and reflects on his 50+ year career in the theater in anticipation of his debut engagement at New York City's Cutting Room.
Funnyman Mike Birbiglia brings his introspections on potential fatherhood and other topics to Broadway's Cort Theatre for a limited run.
Big Apple Circus returns to Manhattan for its annual stint, and its best part is when it's clowning around.
A 20-foot-tall, 2,000-pound gorilla comes to life (though not much else) in the live stage version of the classic film.
Playwright Jacklyn Backhaus spins historical, theatrical, and gender conventions on their heads with this subversive tale of 10 men, four boats, and two rivers, which contains none of the ab…
Playwrights Horizons presents Larissa FastHorse's cutting satire about a group of white actors attempting to create a more historically accurate retelling of Thanksgiving.
'King Kong' opens on this week, and when it does, Leroy Church will be making his Broadway debut.
Elaine May stars in Kenneth Lonergan's play about a woman facing dementia and the impact it has on her family. Also featuring Michael Cera and Lucas Hedges.
Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl star in a revival of the Tony Award-winning play about a gay man's odyssey to find happiness in New York.
Composer Nico Muhly, librettist Nicholas Wright, and Broadway director Michael Mayer take on the captivating novel 'Marnie' as source material for a new opera.
Vineyard Theatre presents a new play by about a first-generation coming-of-age journey of love, loss, and growing into adulthood. Written by and featuring Ngozi Anyanwu.
A seemingly perfect gay couple has their world uprooted in Michael McKeever's bristling new play about love, commitment, and family.
The pop drag trio descended on The Green Room 42 for a Halloween-inspired show that had audiences on their feet.
Glenn Close stars as a peasant woman whose faith is upended as she deals with the baffling journey of her odd and extraordinary daughter.
Carmel Dean (score) and Dick Scanlan (book) adapt the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay into a new musical.
A sprawling cast of 22 takes on Jez Butterworth's family drama set in 1981 Ireland.
