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'Delusion of the Fury' by Harry Partch, the mid-20th-century American composer who devised his own 43-tone musical scale, will be presented at the Lincoln Center Festival by Ensemble Musikfa…
After a slow spell over the July Fourth holiday, Broadway ticket sales bounced back"if not uniformly"in the week that ended Sunday, according to data provided by the Broadway League.
After losing its longtime home last year, the free outdoor performance series, which for nearly 20 years turned a gritty Lower East Side municipal lot into a Shakespearean stage, opens Thurs…
The National Ballet of China is visiting New York with 180 company members"including 76 musicians"for performances at the David Koch Theater through Sunday as part of Lincoln Center Festival.
Freestyle rapper Daveed Diggs, who has two roles in the musical 'Hamilton,' talks about performing for an older audience and playing a white slave owner.
There were few fireworks on Broadway during the July 4 holiday week, with most shows seeing a drop in ticket sales. "The King and I" was a rare exception.
Misty Copeland, who recently became the American Ballet Theatre's first African-American female principal dancer, will make her Broadway debut in the revival of "On The Town."
Unlike many new musicals, whose investors are rewarded with a prominent producer credit, 'Amazing Grace' puts just two names above the title"that of a theater veteran and an 82-year-old indu…
The ballerina's promotion from soloist makes her the first African-American female principal dancer at the venerable New York ballet company.
'Voodoo," an opera written in 1914 by Harlem Renaissance composer and musician H. Lawrence Freeman, will be performed Friday and Saturday at Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
Shows by international performers have had to be canceled because of a computer-hardware malfunction at the U.S. State Department that has stranded tens of thousands of foreigners outside th…
Hosting a company the size of the Royal, with 96 dancers, is unprecedented for the Joyce Theater Foundation, which is on a long-term push to expand dance audiences for the city. It will need…
St. Ann's Warehouse, the Dumbo-based performing-arts center, held a fundraiser at its new building, the former Tobacco Warehouse on Water Street, which will open in earnest in October.
Winning isn't everything at the Tony Awards. It's the broadcast that counts"particularly for the Broadway shows that staged brief performances during its telecast last weekend.
Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard portrays the martyr as a childlike figure who recalls her tumultuous life as a series of dramatic visions, in the New York Philharmonic's presen…
Best musical "Fun Home" and best play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" were decisive winners at the 69th Tony awards Sunday. It was also a good night for women in theater.
Tony Award season underscores Broadway's selectively cordial relationship to Hollywood. While stars such as Helen Mirren and Bradley Cooper received nominations, many film and TV celebrities…
His third production, 'The Spoils,' opens June 2 at the Signature Theater.
It's boom time for Broadway: Overall attendance and grosses hit records in the 2014-2015 season, with 13 million people in the seats and $1.3 billion taken in at box offices.
Stephen Sondheim's "Bounce," in its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre (through Aug. 10), is Mr. Sondheim's first new musical to see daylight since "Passion" in 1994 and marks the first t…
This Wall Street Journal article from the other day discusses the growing online sources for Broadway tickets and discounts. Featured in the article are TheaterMania, Playbill Online and BroadwayBox.com. It will be interesting to see if ticket availability becomes a truely open market, like in London, where consumers can go to many sources for your theater tickets rather than just one. In the end, competition is good for 99% of the Broadway audience/community.
Could Stephen Sondheim be our modern Mozart? In the second trio of musicals of the Kennedy Center's revelatory "Sondheim Celebration," seen on an August weekend, themes of darkness and light, tragedy and comedy, are twisted together, and songs burst out when speech will no longer serve. Nothing is obvious. The audience leaves the theater disturbed and moved, a more complex result than the easy uplift of the ordinary happy ending.
Thanks to Laurent for the link.
The Peterborough Players' production of Molière's "Tartuffe" not only stages a play by one of the most neglected great playwrights of the past, but presents it in a crisp and immediat…
Merle Debuskey, the dean of theater press agents, looks back at half a century of promoting some of Broadway's biggest hits.
