73 stories by "Sopan Deb"
Jaclyn Backhaus's new play sounds like the story of a Punjabi-American of her generation, and it is. But it also draws on her mother's fraught family.
Following Jennifer Simard in the rapid run-up to her first performance as a cast replacement in the hit musical.
Reba McEntire, Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter will also be honored at the Kennedy Center ceremony, which Mr. Trump skipped last year after some winners expressed discomfort with him.
The force behind "Hamilton" and "In the Heights" will bring his vision to the big screen for the first time with an adaptation of a musical by the "Rent" creator Jonathan Larson.
The national television audience might not have heard it, but Mr. De Niro definitely said it.
After winning a Tony for "Angels in America," Andrew Garfield spoke about the recent Supreme Court decision in favor of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple.
The actor, who first wrote the play as a one-man show in 1989, makes his Broadway musical debut as the gangster Sonny in "A Bronx Tale: The Musical."
A trip to Haiti inspired the set, costumes " and animal actors " in the revival of this musical on Broadway.
"Junk," Mr. Akthtar's ambitious study of 1980s Wall Street, receives an honor previously won by Taylor Mac and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Jamie Brewer stars in "Amy and the Orphans," about three siblings who reunite after their father's death, and the road trip that follows.
Tom Hanks will be making his Los Angeles stage debut, trying his hand as the comedic Falstaff in "Henry IV" alongside his wife, Rita Wilson.
After Ithaca High School canceled its production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" because of students' pushback, an online mob targeted the town.
Sam Crane and Iestyn Davies both play a famed opera singer in "Farinelli and the King." But off hours, their passion for soccer takes hold.
Mr. Pally, best known for television series like "Happy Endings" and "The Mindy Project," is taking on his first Off Broadway play.
Mr. McCraney, the playwright who won an Oscar for "Moonlight," will make his Broadway debut in 2019 as part of the upcoming Manhattan Theater Club season.
After a New York Daily News report detailed sexual misconduct allegations against Mr. Vereen, Broadway San Diego removed his name from an awards program.
The adaptation of "Fiddler" will debut next summer, with the lyricist Sheldon Harnick consulting on the production.
To capture the spirit of its relentlessly cheerful animated hero and his underwater world, a $20 million musical that "explodes off the stage."
"It's a little freaky" how much the energetic actor Ethan Slater seems like the title character he plays in "SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical."
Listen along as John Leguizamo shares some of the sounds that influenced his one-man show on Broadway.
A play about Lenny Bruce-style comedy that was to be performed on the Brandeis campus was canceled amid backlash from students and faculty.
Roland Scahill admitted to bilking investors of more than $205,000 to back a Broadway play that didn't exist.
The Upright Citizens Brigade will be leaving its famed space in Chelsea and moving to a location on West 42nd Street by early December.
A relative unknown, Harry Hadden-Paton, will be Henry Higgins to her Eliza Doolittle in the Broadway production, the musical's first revival in decades.
The physical training required for the theatrical version of "A Clockwork Orange" rivals that of professional athletes.
