73 stories by "Sopan Deb"
Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
In this new hip-hop musical from Nygel D. Robinson and Brian Quijada, audiences hear a tale of reverse migration: Slaves leaving the United States for Mexico.
At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic.
The Monty Python-inspired show wants to give audiences a reason "to laugh and enjoy and be taken away by this lunacy, in the best way possible."
Basketball is central to the plot in new shows, including "Flex" and "The Half-God of Rainfall."
His father served for three decades but had never seen the military drama. So they had a lot to talk about after its opening night on Broadway.
At 75, the actor is trying his hand at musical theater in an Off Broadway show called "Only Human." It kind of makes sense.
Finding spots for the pop songs, credited to 161 writers, and getting the rights, was no cancan.
A new Off Broadway play aims to make sure Toni Stone, who played for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1953, is no longer a footnote to history.
Two families, one house, plus demons: The complicated set of the new Broadway musical is a shape-shifter all its own.
Matt Walker just got his big acting break in the farce "The Play That Goes Wrong." But he's not giving up his day job in a Nobel winner's biology lab.
The former frontman of the Smiths, Morrissey will become the latest high-profile musician to take to a Broadway stage when he performs a career retrospective.
Some old friends showed up at "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, including the host John Mulaney, who turned in another strong performance as host.
Sure, LeBron is doing another "Space Jam" movie. But a play about LeBron is also heading to Chicago.
There's more to the show than banging on a can. Ask George Lucas, Hillary Clinton " and the performer who's been doing it for 20 years.
Even the winner seemed to be caught off guard when she, and not Lady Gaga, won for a movie drama, "The Wife."
The play, "The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda," will be read this weekend at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe on the Lower East Side.
For the Broadway adaptation of the blistering satire of business, Timothy Semon calls sound and lighting cues while onstage.
The Monty Python-esque murder mystery farce, which was a hit on Broadway, will close in January. But the show will go on.
The puppet-filled musical that became an unexpected hit on Broadway in 2003 will be ending its Off Broadway run on April 28.
The storied Harlem institution will create spaces intended to incubate works by up-and-coming artists.
Quad Cinema is going to court to fend off eviction proceedings after an upstairs tenant complained that noise from its screens keeps seeping into his home.
A man was removed from the Hippodrome Theater in Baltimore after he loudly yelled pro-Hitler slogans during intermission.
The play, which ended its run at the New York Theater Workshop, will transfer to the Greenwich House Theater beginning Nov. 27.
The four musical comedy leads of this production insist that they're not as narcissistic as their characters. Even if they're playing versions of themselves.
