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The "Here Lies Love" actress finds inspiration in Alex Newell's "Shucked" performance and a good night's sleep in the sounds of "Forensic Files."
In "The Great White Bard," Farah Karim-Cooper maintains that close attention to race, and racism, will only deepen engagement with the playwright's canon.
Reimagining the Broadway musical for audiences near Beirut meant new character names, choreography and lyrics.
This year, the stronger productions in the open-to-all event were on a par with many in the more prestigious, curated Edinburgh International Festival.
The British singer, now sober, has a new life in New York, and a new string to her bow: acting.
In "Once Upon a One More Time," Jennifer Simard finds value in seeing "how small you can make something and achieve a big result."
Morris dancing, a folk form with origins in the 15th century, is opening up to younger dancers who approach it as a living tradition.
Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater is going strong and, at 89, so is he. But what will happen to his company when he is gone?
Check your cynicism at the door: Brendan George is earnest and endearing as he mourns Roman in this one-man show.
He wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and became "the longest-running musical in the universe."
In plays from Scotland, Korea and Switzerland, theater companies explored questions of belonging, with varying degrees of success.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood's first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
At the Edinburgh Festival, Geoff Sobelle presents a dinner party as a theatrical spectacle, in which silliness is the end in itself.
In his Joyce Theater debut, Morris unveiled a cheekily titled premiere and "Castor and Pollux," a lost treasure from his early days.
How a theater collective transformed the too-weird-to-be-true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme into a West End musical with heart.
The first major biography of the playwright recounts his life and boundless vision.
The choreography on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour doesn't ask her to do too much, but she knows how to use her simple moves to her advantage.
The popular line dance, which gained international fame in the early 2000s, has been a staple at family functions, night clubs and more for more than 20 years.
He is credited with stabilizing that venerable British troupe while energizing it with ambitious projects including "Matilda the Musical."
"Candide" in an opera house. "Spamalot" and "Rent" cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
Meryl Streep joined the cast for a season that moved much of the action to Broadway, enlisting a musical theater supergroup to write the songs.
Jody Gottfried Arnhold has a mission (and the means) to cultivate dance education. To her, it is a basic human right " and vital to democracy.
This year's International Puppet Fringe Festival surveys puppetry traditions from around the globe, and celebrates the legacy of the master puppeteer Ralph Lee.
The killing of the dancer and choreographer at a Brooklyn gas station is a stark reminder that some forms of expression are still seen as threatening.
Old relationships bend, then break, in Danny Tejera's finely detailed character study of languishing jet-set twentysomethings.
