Review: In 'Köln Concert,' Dancing Like Everyone's Watching
Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
Music by Keith Jarrett and Joni Mitchell set Trajal Harrell and his dancers in motion, but this pandemic-era piece feels mannered instead of spontaneous.
Lauren Lovette, the resident choreographer of Paul Taylor Dance Company, presents two new works as part of the group's Lincoln Center season.
Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.
Danny DeVito returns to Broadway in a Theresa Rebeck comedy about a lonely old man lost in a houseful of junk.
Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he's now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
"I walk into a show and everybody's kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, 'Oh, but you're so nice,'" the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.
The producers cultivated online followers for three years before mounting a full production, bringing them along on the show's journey to the stage.
Qui Nguyen's crowd-tickling comedy about a Vietnamese family in Arkansas mixes hip-hop and martial arts with soapy twists and turns.
Hansol Jung's new play riffs on Greek dramas, the Restoration comedy "The Country Wife" and Tony Kushner's "Angels in America."
A production featuring graduates of Le Jardin des Voix, run by William Christie, with choreography by Mourad Merzouki, comes to Lincoln Center on Thursday.
"The Heart of Rock and Roll" is a romantic comedy featuring songs by the chart-topping 1980s band.
Irish Repertory Theater's season-long survey of the playwright's work prompted our reporter to seek out the Irish town that inspired the imaginary site of so many of his plays.
The veteran actor directs and plays the title role in a brisk and curiously weightless London production.
Each performance culminates in a production, composed on the spot, with misguided help from artificial intelligence.
A story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
Barrie Kosky's Berlin production of the 1975 musical adds a touch of burlesque and a dash of Bertolt Brecht.
Jake Roxander's soaring Puck in "The Dream" was the highlight of American Ballet Theater's final two programs this fall, the first season programmed by Susan Jaffe.
Rachel Chavkin of "Hadestown" will direct the show, which had developmental productions in Massachusetts and California.
The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back?
David Adjmi's riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a '70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
This creepy Halloween show is the latest visual feat from Joshua William Gelb, presented by Theater in Quarantine and produced in a closet.
A critic and dramatist himself, he started repertory companies at Yale and Harvard and fiercely defended the art form, even if it meant feuding with playwrights.
Soon after appearing in the original Broadway production of "Fiddler on the Roof," she began a new career as a prominent casting director.
A new "Pal Joey" at City Center has reimagined the never-quite-satisfying script to make Joey (Ephraim Sykes) a forward-thinking Black jazz singer.
The playwright York Walker makes a promising New York debut at Roundabout Underground.