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A statue of the Revolutionary War general, newly prominent thanks to the musical "Hamilton," has been removed from its place outside Albany City Hall because he enslaved people.
Liz Kingsman plays a messy attention-seeker grasping at relevance in a sharp satire of the trend of female comics playing chaotic train wrecks.
American Ballet Theater opened its summer season with Christopher Wheeldon's new three-act ballet, inspired by a novel and film.
In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to "Fiddler on the Roof" and "She Loves Me" explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
Alex Edelman thrives on doubt in "Just for Us" on Broadway. It's the result of years of revision and notes from Seinfeld, Birbiglia and the late Adam Brace.
His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included "Fiorello!" " which, like "Fiddler," was a Tony winner " and "She Loves Me."
The esteemed editor, who died last week at 92, was a balletomane who was known to program New York City Ballet seasons from his offices at Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker.
The Britney Spears jukebox musical, about fairy tale princesses fighting for their emancipation, comes up short as a narrative of feminist awakening.
A meet-cute on an Italian excursion sends a mother and daughter on parallel journeys of self-discovery in an Encores! staging of the 2005 musical.
A honky-tonk lesbian romance and a new musical by Gavin Creel are also slated for the Off Broadway theater's 2023-24 lineup.
The pair, who were the original co-stars of "The Book of Mormon," will return to Broadway this fall in a two-man musical comedy.
A bio-show about the radio D.J. Alan Freed, one of rock music's early popularizers, dutifully plays the hits.
In a big-hearted musical about a 1970s Belfast record store owner and the punk movement he nurtured, music is the real hero.
"Once Upon a One More Time" is bringing hits like "Toxic" and "Circus" to Broadway. Will Spears's fiercely protective base embrace it?
A new James Graham play about the soccer coach Gareth Southgate is a lively romp, but its core message about embracing male vulnerability feels soppy.
"Leopoldstadt," which was named best play, and "Kimberly Akimbo," which won best musical, saw considerable increases in ticket sales.
An Englishman with a deep, cultured voice, he played uptight snobs in films like "Back to School" and on shows like "Friends" and "Mad About You."
Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes.
A revival of the 1998 revisal of the 1966 musical highlights the stories of trans and nonbinary performers.
The magician worked with the playwright Lucas Hnath to create "a more vulnerable version of magic performance," Hnath said.
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's free summer arts festival presented several pieces, including "duel c" on Governors Island, that employed humor for serious purposes.
The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of "Gatsby" adaptations.
Gaby Diaz, a winner of "So You Think You Can Dance," has shaped a surprising freelance career that bridges commercial and concert dance.
Justin Huertas's indie-rock musical, in which he also stars, follows a young misfit whose first date spirals into a comic book adventure.
A new Encores! staging of the 2005 musical, starring Ruthie Ann Miles, considers what it is like to feel like an outsider, at home and abroad.
