John Patrick Shanley on 'Doubt' Revival and 'Brooklyn Laundry'
The playwright discusses the Broadway revival of "Doubt" and his latest, "Brooklyn Laundry." "People are disagreeing violently with themselves," he says.
The playwright discusses the Broadway revival of "Doubt" and his latest, "Brooklyn Laundry." "People are disagreeing violently with themselves," he says.
This modern-day fable, directed by Rupert Goold and starring Tobias Menzies, is styled with horror.
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
With Judson Dance Theater and elsewhere, he expanded the possibilities of what dance could be, developing works around basic tasks like eating a pear or simply walking.
The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.
Robert Garland, Dance Theater's new artistic director and longtime resident choreographer, presides over his first season at New York City Center.
"Deep River," featuring the choreographer's company, Lines Ballet, has a meditative flow without much grit.
The choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker teams up with the pianist Pavel Kolesnikov for a new production of the Bach masterpiece at N.Y.U. Skirball.
The company said that it was leaving its space in a former bank in Times Square after 25 years because the rent was too high and the lease had unfavorable terms.
A jukebox musical about a Midwesterner's big dreams is heavy on the Petula Clark.
Did Jelly Roll Morton "invent" jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form's founding fathers.
He created a vibrant space for actors and playwrights that became a seedbed for the emerging Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s.
Itamar Moses wrote a drama of ideas about Israel and antisemitism. Then Oct. 7 happened.
It's one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the '80s. On its way to Broadway, the show's cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.
She has become known an Ibsen whisper, bringing "An Enemy of the People" to Broadway this spring, along with a play of her own, which stars Rachel McAdams.
Moses Ingram makes her New York stage debut in Dominique Morisseau's love poem to Nina Simone.
As she tries to find her place in Hollywood, the "Color Purple" stage and screen star bids an emotional goodbye to a character she has lived with for nearly a decade.
The summer's Vail Dance Festival features Mearns, the New York City Ballet star, and the choreographer Roberts.
Why are 18 shows opening in March and April, and which one is for you? Our theater reporter has answers.
"The Notebook" and "Cabaret" land on Broadway. Olivia Rodrigo's tour stops in Manhattan. Plus: Herbie Hancock, Heartbeat Opera and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Jason Michael Webb, the show's guest music director, said he wants audiences at the musical about Jelly Roll Morton to experience "a time period that does not exist anymore."
Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.
Dael Orlandersmith's slender new solo play is a meditation on living that seems also like a curveball response to loss.
How the Broadway star simultaneously mastered leading roles in "Once Upon a Mattress" and "Sweeney Todd."
As his own life unfolds, an artist reconsiders his reaction to Joan Didion's memoir about loss.