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"Life of Pi" and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here's what we're looking forward to this season.
In a pared-down Broadway revival of "A Doll's House," the Oscar-winning actress doesn't have props, period costumes or much of a set. To her surprise, she likes it.
An early play by Samuel D. Hunter finds the author developing his voice by lending it to the lost souls working at an Idaho Hobby Lobby.
As founding artistic director, he made Trinity Rep in Rhode Island a leader in theatrical innovation. He then made his mark in Dallas as well.
Reich, a comedian and writer, transforms into the avatar of Gen Z disaffection in his taut, biting solo show at Greenwich House Theater.
The play, directed by Joe Mantello and also starring Tatiana Maslany, had a well-reviewed debut in Chicago. It begins performances in April.
In upcoming musical revivals, world leaders both real (Imelda Marcos, Eva Perón) and folkloric (King Arthur) get an image makeover they may not deserve.
Kate Soper's "The Romance of the Rose," which had its long-delayed premiere at Long Beach Opera, showcases her signature quick-shifting eclecticism.
Chaos also plays a role in a new play at the Volksbühne theater that delivers on its pledge of a director-free evening.
"She's Got Harlem on Her Mind," three of Spence's one-acts, packaged together at the Metropolitan Playhouse, are filled with gender and class politics.
As a student of Martha Graham and a founding member of the Batsheva Dance Company, she helped lay the foundation for an art that continues to thrive in Israel.
Through dialogue, poetry and ritual, the playwright revisits her correspondence with her former student, who died at the age of 25.
Anna Ziegler's play about an Orthodox couple in the 1970s and an unorthodox one in the 2010s explores the limits of longing.
The art form needs to make room for lesser-known names, to refresh and enlarge the talent pool, our critic writes.
"The Cottage," written by Sandy Rustin, will star Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy and Lilli Cooper.
Marco Goecke on Thursday lost his position as ballet director at Hanover's main opera house. The reaction has "been a bit blown up," he says.
The summer dance festival will feature Olga Smirnova, the former Bolshoi star, now with the Dutch National Ballet, and Mark Morris's Burt Bacharach tribute.
In a pairing that seems almost predestined, the actresses are sharing a stage in "The Seagull/Woodstock, NY," a contemporary riff on Chekhov.
An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe's production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
Women's empowerment is the undercurrent of the winter season at New York City Ballet. Does it have a place in Americana?
Robert Lyons, the founding artistic director, said it was time for a new generation to take over the West Village stage.
A major British theater company, Ambassador Theater Group, says it is "combining operations" with Jujamcyn, the smallest of Broadway's three big landlords.
In "Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?" Craig Seligman resurrects the life and fabulousness of a drag queen who flourished in AIDS-era San Francisco.
Marco Goecke has been suspended from his position as ballet director at Hanover's main opera house after he smeared excrement on a critic's face.
The perfectionist composer was content with being a one-hit musical-theater wonder, calling the experience the hardest thing he had ever done.
