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The styles in "Jaja's African Hair Braiding," in previews on Broadway, require a wig designer, several braiders, some synthetic hair and lots of patience.
The writer-performer wanted to avoid the pandemic, but couldn't. Her new solo show dives into birth, death and cosmic confusion.
"What the theater gives me is the feeling that I'm using everything," the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.
In this documentary, ballet has life-changing power for three New York dancers whose toughest struggles are not matters of technique.
The Congresswoman was asked to leave after being accused of being loud and recording the show at a moment when many theaters are debating how to deal with raucous audience behavior.
In her new play, Christina Masciotti turns a keen gaze on an immigrant tailor who has woven her business into the fabric of a neighborhood.
With its commitment to presenting free spectacles, the event has become one of the country's more prominent multidisciplinary events.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy's "Filling Station" has new choreography and music but converses with the 1938 original and its "glimmer of queer liberation."
The leaders of the Belarus Free Theater, who fled the country more than a decade ago, are helping more recent refugees to rebuild their lives while putting on a new show.
Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James will reprise the roles they played Off Broadway earlier this year.
We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season.
For her stage debut in "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," the "White Lotus" actress is joining forces with Christopher Abbott. "We're both unafraid to be ugly and weird and strange," he said.
Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker's weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic.
The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.
The prominent Los Angeles nonprofit chose the playwright to oversee its artistic programming at a time of crisis for American theaters.
The show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen's best-selling novel.
The theme "No Place Like Home" will drive shows and festivals in both large cities and rural locales of this country on July 27, 2024.
Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez and Daniel Radcliffe are the heart of the tear-streaked "Merrily We Roll Along" Broadway revival.
This French dance collective presents its bold vision with the Ballet National de Marseille at the Dance Reflections festival.
The play, by Amy Herzog, is about a mother caring for a chronically ill child.
Charmatz's first new work for the company founded by Pina Bausch was a messy, meandering grab-bag of ideas and inspirations.
To make a company, George Balanchine first needed to make dancers. At 75, New York City Ballet pays tribute to its dancers, including three who were there at the start.
The company has rebounded after the pandemic and a series of scandals, stabilizing its finances, revamping its culture and attracting younger audiences.
Balanchine didn't think his ballets would last. But many have become classics, the cornerstone of repertory not just at City Ballet but around the world.
The writer and actress visits Coney Island as the New York leg of "Death, Let Me Do My Show" arrives Off Broadway.
