No longer at the Public, the annual celebration of experimental theater disperses 17 productions across the city. About half are international works that are getting harder to import.
He rose to stardom in an act with Gregory Hines and also performed on and off Broadway.
Melanie La Barrie, who brought the role of Angélique from the West End to Broadway, flew back on New Year's Eve with "Hadestown" on the horizon.
"Mad Max" gets a prequel, "The Wiz" returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
Before the fall of apartheid, his plays, which also included "Woza Albert!" and "Asinamali," challenged the South African government's racial policies.
He appeared memorably in "American Buffalo" and in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross," but gave up a career on Broadway for one in Chicago.
From the pop supernova Olivia Rodrigo to a memoirist whose long-held ballet aspirations stalled at the barre, young women gave voice to their longing this year in memorable ways.
Stories evolve. But a recent review proved to a theater critic that people can change even more.
A new revival directed by Emily Mann and starring Tim Daly leans into its flailing characters' confusions.
The musicals of Stephen Sondheim often struggled at the box office during his lifetime, but since his death several have become huge hits on Broadway.
Deadheads, ballerinas and Mick Jagger: As 2023 winds down, revisit a memorable handful of the thousands of images commissioned by our photo editors that capture the year in culture.
Over the past year, dance has shown its broader worth, from stage to film, #balletcore to music videos, TikTok tutorials to movement classes.
Offered the chance to revisit her Broadway performance as the much-abused Celie, the star faced a difficult path.
A new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker's novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional storytelling.
"Any movie by Alexander Payne, Lena Dunham, Greta Gerwig, anything European," said the comedian, who has a special on Max. "Anything where a woman with ennui wanders around a medieval town."
Now on Netflix, the movie tracks the life of the American conductor and composer and his wife, the actress Felicia Montealegre, played by Carey Mulligan.
Nine years ago, the actor was ready to quit Hollywood. Now, he's starring in "Rustin" and "The Color Purple" in a breakthrough moment on the big screen.
Often playing a baddie in action films, she wasn't sure she was ready to star. As a veteran dancer, she rather liked being an apprentice.
"A Dewdrop is a drop of dew," India Bradley said. "So can't anyone do it?" She and the guest artist Alexandra Hutchinson perform the role in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker."
A musical adaptation of "Curves" and a play about two Asian women becoming friends both look at immigrants' experiences, with mixed results.
Jes Tom used to be obsessed with finding "the one" to ride out the end times with. Now, the comic is happy just talking about sex in front of strangers six nights a week.
An exhibition at New York Public Library tells a different, more inclusive story about the genealogy of an art form.
Richard Nelson's "Our Life in Art" has been translated into Russian and French. Both times required, above all, preserving a specific sensibility.
A tour through five cases in which Tchaikovsky's classical score has been taken up by jazz legends and misguided filmmakers.