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In her Off Broadway drama, which had an acclaimed run in Chicago, the playwright looks for hope to outweigh despair in a fractious, anxious time.
Alexis Blake's "Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve," her first work to be shown in New York, focuses on strength and fragility.
"Mother Play," set in the 1960s, will feature Lange as a mother raising two children, played by Jim Parsons and Celia Keenan-Bolger.
The director Blitz Bazawule added magical realist elements to his adaptation. But convincing Fantasia Barrino to return after Broadway took some work.
Twelve years after opening "The Book of Mormon," the two actors " and good friends " return with "Gutenberg! The Musical!"
Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
The Broadway revival saw an immediate change in its fortunes when the actress stepped into the production last September.
He wrote plays that tackled big issues like the death penalty and gun violence. He also wrote for series including the superhero saga "Luke Cage."
Lawrence Leritz, an actor and choreographer, met Mr. Buffett much earlier in his career, in the 1980s, when Mr. Buffett had a small role on the soap opera "All My Children." At the time Mr. …
The handwriting on the company's wall, in chalk, was traced by a closing night crowd sharing memories of more than 30 years of landmarks and larks.
She worked on "Sweeney Todd" and "Candide" and also on the early seasons of "Saturday Night Live," contributing to the look of the Blues Brothers and the Killer Bees.
Six shows and a fringe festival are among this month's highlights in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and a bit beyond.
Alex Bechtel's new musical, sort of "a pandemic parable," gives voice to a mythical character in "The Odyssey."
As Waltz's Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next.
A joyful, bumpy musical version of Shakespeare's late romance closes the Delacorte Theater before an 18-month renovation.
A London revival of the hit musical brings extra warmth to the story of a woman in psychological free fall.
Naomi Pierre will appear in Shakespeare in the Park this weekend and thinks of the character she plays as a teenager like herself.
Despite its thunderbolt of a title, the focus of this memory play is on the relationship between a self-involved author and his long-suffering agent.
Her work, including the new "Infinite Life," involves silences full of meaning. But what exactly they convey can change depending on the director.
She mixed insight and absurdity in a vast body of work that also included "Painting Churches" and "Pride's Crossing," both of which were Pulitzer finalists.
The subscription model, in which theatergoers buy a season's worth of shows at a time, had long been waning, but it fell off a cliff during the pandemic.
A smash, a romp, a mess and a mystery are part of this Ontario festival's 12-play repertoire after two seasons of retrenchment.
On Fire Island in New York, ardent fans described their affection for the Broadway star while waiting to see her perform at a Cherry Grove nightclub.
An initiative started in 2019 helps to address funding disparities and offers a vision of Black dance as a form whose categories refuse to be static.
