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The actor, musician and playwright has made a career out of finding ways to stay creative between "Dumb and Dumber" and "To Kill a Mockingbird."
"Spreadsheets? That's just the choreography of numbers," says a participant in a program that envisions an array of approaches to administrative needs.
Best known internationally for her breakout performance in the 1959 film "Black Orpheus," she challenged racial stereotypes over a seven-decade career.
The breakout star of this year's Edinburgh Fringe is Julia Masli, aperformer with a graveyard time slot who sets out to solve her audience's problems.
Barrington Stage Company's revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter's near-death experience.
Of South Asian descent, he was discriminated against as "colored" in South Africa, but he flourished in London as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
The Shaw Festival in Canada is staging the novelist's 1901 script, discovered only a few years ago. But how to get its mix of satire and melodrama just right?
This year, Beach Sessions pairs an adaptation of Merce Cunningham's "Beach Birds" with a response by the choreographer Sarah Michelson.
Jodi Melnick and Maya Lee-Parritz's new work, "Ãgua Viva," is loosely inspired by Lispector's novel.
They are a reminder of the countless histories that don't exist there " and the work demanded to sustain them.
Our critics debate how well shows like "Six," "& Juliet" and "Once Upon a One More Time" engage with the inner worlds of women onstage.
The show, which was capitalized for $20 million, will end its Broadway run on Sept. 3 after 123 performances. Its producers say they are planning a national tour.
"Here You Come Again" and "On Cedar Street" are very different new musicals about people who are unmoored and seek companionship to make it through.
The best productions at the Ruhrtrienniale festival created a sense of unity with their unique, often vast, settings.
A new musical adaptation of a popular novel by S.E. Hinton will begin performances in March.
In his Broadway debut, the illusionist Antonio DÃaz does levitation and teleportation. But it's simple tricks, with cards and balls, that really wow.
In a revival of Lucy Prebble's play at the National Theater, in London, Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell are terrific as a couple who meet during a pharmaceutical trial.
After facing homelessness in his youth, he became an admired theater and television actor, playing tough and weathered but vulnerable characters.
An uncompromising, charismatic dancer and choreographer, he was a towering (6-foot-3) figure who taught, wrote and had the ability, a colleague said, "to wake you up."
She had success on Broadway in "110 in the Shade" and other shows, but a later generation knew her from a sitcom.
Wearable backpacks designed by Music: Not Impossible, which allow people to experience music as vibrations on their bodies, are becoming more accessible to the public.
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.
