'The Inheritance' Arrives at a Festival of German Drama
A new production of Matthew Lopez's seven-hour play was among 10 shows chosen for Theatertreffen, a celebration of the best theater from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
A new production of Matthew Lopez's seven-hour play was among 10 shows chosen for Theatertreffen, a celebration of the best theater from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival opener, written by ruth tang, rages against the machines and examines human alienation.
The South African choreographer and dancer Dada Masilo's "The Sacrifice," at the Joyce Theater, responds to Pina Bausch.
A family processes its bereavement in the midst of a demonic haunting in Keelay Gipson's new play for Bushwick Starr.
The screenwriters' strike threatened next month's broadcast, a key marketing moment for the fragile theater industry. That's when leading dramatists sprang into action.
In roles in HBO's "Succession" and "A Doll's House" on Broadway, politics are never far from mind for the Iranian American actor.
Mira Nair's 2001 movie about a couple brought together by their families becomes a song-filled pageant, with mixed results.
In this play by GuadalÃs Del Carmen, a couple's shared heritage is integral to their meeting and the ups and downs of their daily relationship.
The Children's Theater Company production, based on the animated film, elevates the depiction of its characters' religious and ethnic backgrounds.
His play "Do Lord Remember Me," constructed from interviews with formerly enslaved people in the 1930s, was first staged in 1978 and has been revived multiple times since.
For the fragile souls in this new play, presented by Steven Soderbergh, a Buddhist group that once offered them solace loses its way.
A new West End adaptation, starring Lucas Hedges and Mike Faist, recasts Annie Proulx's 1997 short story as a memory play.
With a premiere by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond at the Joyce, Gibney Company builds on its repertoire but doesn't enhance it.
The magazine's Ethicist columnist on how to cast an upcoming rendition of "Fiddler on the Roof."
A new generation of stand-ups is mining the heartbreaking loss of a loved one for ambitious shows. How did we get here?
Levi Holloway on his psychological thriller starring Laurie Metcalf: "It wears the jacket of horror. But I think it's more heart than horror."
Two men's kindred obsession with a basketball player is the scaffold for Rajiv Joseph's examination of male friendship at the Manhattan Theater Club.
The group brings the inclusive spirit of viral dance challenges out into the fresh air with its joyfully queer "flash Bobs."
The Tony Awards, a key marketing opportunity for Broadway, can go ahead in an altered form after the striking screenwriters' union said it would not picket this year's broadcast.
The strike by the Writers Guild of America is endangering the June 11 broadcast of the Tony Awards, one of the biggest marketing opportunities for an industry recovering from the pandemic.
Directed by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights.
The Swiss director Milo Rau drapes a traumatic episode of Brazilian history with a Greek tragedy on a Belgian stage.
Colette Robert's play takes aim at antiquated rites of passage, and how they can promote classism, colorism and retrograde gender politics.
Artists and dreamers sing of revolution in a musical set on the cusp of the birth of the Soviet Union.
The production, with a new script by Amy Herzog and directed by Sam Gold, will begin early next year.