185 stories by "Robin Pogrebin"
In researching her new Broadway play, Bess Wohl interviewed my mother. After a performance, we all discussed the play and its themes.
In his solo Off Broadway show "Other," Ari'el Stachel explores the anxiety that has exacerbated his struggles with being an Arab Jew.
America's oldest performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural institut…
The "Tonight Show" host is performing in the new comedy "All In," which features a starry cast. "It's a dream," he said.
Tarell Alvin McCraney, the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, is focused on bringing marginalized people to the theater.
Roy Cockrum has donated more than $25 million to 39 theaters, helping the Old Globe in San Diego stage the one Shakespeare play it had yet to produce.
The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?
Companies are cropping up and expanding. Is the city on the cusp of a fertile chapter in its dance history?
As the new arts space faces financial challenges, it tapped Meredith Hodges to take over its administrative leadership from Alex Poots, who will remain as artistic director.
A one-man Laurence Fishburne show, a Bill T. Jones premiere and a new take on "Cats" will be among the offerings at the new Perelman Performing Arts Center.
The nonbinary actor has received a Tony Award nomination for a role in which all sides of them come together.
Even as it celebrates with a gala, the Ars Nova family now faces another challenge as one of its founders confronts A.L.S.
The longtime dance presenter has signed a yearlong lease on rehearsal and studio space that it hopes to purchase.
In his first show at Gagosian, opening Thursday, the painter Cy Gavin explores the land that has both empowered and inspired him.
In the face of financial challenges, the arts institution is making adjustments: Alex Poots, its founding artistic director and chief executive, will now just focus on being artistic directo…
Her bold choices for "Into the Woods" have garnered the 22-year-old actress critical acclaim and a Broadway debut.
The school's chairman and biggest benefactor, Bruce Kovner, had wanted its president, Damian Woetzel, to leave after a negative evaluation. He marshaled support and stayed.
The show, which imagines the wives of Henry VIII as pop stars, was scheduled to open the day Broadway shut down.
The many famous heads he worked on included those of Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Channing. Some actors requested him in their contracts.
Challenged physically and financially, Paul Huntley, a backstage legend whose artistry is demanded in many a star's contract, says this show will be his last.
Broadway audiences for "Grand Horizons" are getting a rare glimpse of this 80-year-old actor's secret weapons: levity and equanimity.
Jeremy O. Harris will combine disciplines in a summer festival.
Photography, his personal passion, is "quick moments of a life that are gone the minute you take your eyes away," he says.
The beloved but battered Delacorte Theater where Shakespeare in the Park is staged will undergo an overhaul beginning in 2020.
"Sakina's Restaurant," which put him on the map, has new resonance, which is why he's summoning the energy to play all its roles all over again.
