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"Hell's Kitchen," a musical inspired by the singer-songwriter's teenage years in New York, is set to open Off Broadway.
Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
Tuesday's finale of "Only Murders in the Building" wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.
The iridescent Balanchine ballerina returns to New York City Ballet this season to coach for "La Sonnambula." What does she want? Mystery.
A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led an editor to sign her to write two novels.
The festival, with its variety of styles and cheap tickets, plays to excited audiences. Why can't it give them better programs?
Dmitry Krymov's two shows at La MaMa thrillingly stress the porosity of the line between life and storytelling.
On Broadway, this rock concert spliced with memoir has gained a striking intimacy.
The actor conveyed the gravitational force of mortality, tugging the men he played so commandingly toward a void beyond meaning, our critic writes.
Philadelphia's BalletX, a company dedicated to presenting new works, falters with a triple bill at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan.
After he made his mark in London in the 1970s, he went on to play a wide range of roles, including Edward VII, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.
Thomas Schumacher is relinquishing his role overseeing the division's business operations.
Ossie Davis's 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
Starting with the next academic year, the drama school will eliminate an "unrealistic burden" for graduate acting students.
How hotshot directors are reimagining "Cats," "Evita," "Jesus Christ Superstar" and "Sunset Boulevard."
Sondheim said days before his death in 2021 that he did not know when it would be finished, but the musical, now called "Here We Are," begins performances Thursday.
The Lyon Dance Biennial, now under new leadership, is doubling down on its efforts to attract in a wide public.
The discovery of a group of early collages tells a new story about Johnson's ties to dance and the dance world.
Emma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century.
Carlos Acosta's first major commission as the leader of Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates a local band and the hard-rocking genre it invented.
A gender-bending play at New World Stages filters well-known characters through influences like "The Rocky Horror Show" and "Young Frankenstein."
Wanjiru Kamuyu's solo performance at the Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens isn't a straightforward immigration story.
The position is one of the few nonunion segments of the theater industry's work force.
The program featured three living female choreographers but not much in the way of traditional ballet.
He was especially acclaimed for his performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. As his voice developed, he once said, so did his view of how and why to deploy it.
