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Broadway once thrived on the collision of musical traditions. Now, amid jukebox shows and Hollywood adaptations, can it recover its creative daring?
Alex Ekker served four years in the Marine Corps—then decided to be an actor. While sightseeing at the Empire State Building, he talks about his professional début in Aaron Sorkin’s “…
Fresh from playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the rubber-limbed actor chats about reviving and starring in Molière’s “The Imaginary Invalid” on Broadway.
The playwright and the immunologist famously argued about AIDs live on C-SPAN, in 1993. Their heated exchange now unfolds in a new play that almost included a “Guys and Dolls” song break.
Also: an Animal Collective reunion, the reverent art of Malcolm Peacock, a new jazz documentary from 1972, and more.
A group of locals is trying to reclaim city spots for the people—including lobbying to turn vacant lots into gardens and fighting the event venue Guastavino’s over a courtyard.
In “Delirium” and “The Cherry Orchard,” experimental directors smash up and rebuild classic plays.
“The Ford/Hill Project,” a documentary play, may capture recent events, but it’s a product of the present: activist theatre in a moment when the idea of civic urgency is losing purchas…
The designer, known for dressing Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John in feathers and fringe, excelled at Old Hollywood craftsmanship.
Oren Peli, the creator of the original horror-film series, stops by the new stage production and dishes on the creaky house that spooked—and inspired—him back in 2005.
Twenty-odd shows from Edinburgh’s annual avant-garde rumspringa.
Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else.
She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.
Culture preview: what’s coming this season in TV, movies, art, theatre, dance, and music.
The pop star’s appearance has prompted fans to speculate that she’s suffering from an eating disorder. How should we talk about famous women’s bodies?
Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more.
Her eponymous one-woman show was the seed of her Hollywood stardom, which a new revival now frames as the source of something matrilineal, passed down to two generations of Black actresses.
The star of “Widow’s Bay” on the series’ emotional season finale, his formative love for Richard Burton, and the subtle power of scarfing a whole chicken onscreen.
The N.B.A. championship was a win for Mayor Mamdani, but the city’s public-school kids, stuck taking their Regents exams as the ticker-tape parade thundered past their windows, weren’t s…
On “30 Rock,” she pioneered the kind of heteroskepticism that’s now more prevalent than ever. With “The Four Seasons,” she’s exploring a more hopeful counternarrative.
The show’s creator, Jacob Tierney, on his sonic past and what songs you might hear in the second season.
On a break from “Law & Order: S.V.U.,” the actress takes over for Daniel Radcliffe in “Every Brilliant Thing”—steps away from where her mother, Jayne Mansfield, had her Broadwa…
A new Off Broadway play and Shakespeare’s tragedy hinge on a universal anxiety: How well do you know your partner?
Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful resurgence.
“Three six five,” a new collection of writing exercises by the writer Lucy Ives, belongs to a venerable tradition of goofy, esoteric, and avant-garde guides to unlocking the creative min…
