Broadway Bounces Back With 'Best Week Since the Before Times'
Broadway shows grossed $51.9 million during the holiday week, the most since 2019, and "The Lion King" set a record for the most earned by any show in a single week.
Broadway shows grossed $51.9 million during the holiday week, the most since 2019, and "The Lion King" set a record for the most earned by any show in a single week.
The wordless percussion and dance spectacle, which became part of the fabric and culture of the city, leaves the Orpheum Theater on Jan. 8.
Readers and New York Times critics alike share their experiences of the show that became the sound of the city.
"Succession" returns, the Spider-Verse spawns a sequel, Kelela hits the road and Michael B. Jordan makes his directing debut with "Creed III."
In his museum survey and performances, the costume designer (and Taylor Mac collaborator) is like Krazy Glue " bonding art, theater and drag.
Rachel Sterner awakes to any manner of theater crisis. By midday, she's in a headset, calling the shots. But by night, her "weekend" has begun.
She had success with a play about abortion in 2001, and in 2015 wrote the libretto for the opera "Charlie Parker's Yardbird."
When Mani Soleymanlou began acting, he was offered roles as stereotypical outsiders. That he now stars as a cop named Coco is indicative of broader shifts in a changing Quebec.
Some of the devotees of 'Titanique,' which recently moved to the larger Daryl Roth Theater after months of sold-out shows, have seen it more than a dozen times.
A fan of musical theater, Rian Johnson had long hoped to land the two stars. But he was already in the editing phase when they agreed to take part.
This musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel is a jolt of sour candy guaranteed to make you grin.
Stakeholders including Patti LuPone and Lynn Nottage share their real-time reactions to New York theater's shutdown and reopening in Amy Rice's documentary.
Alex Edelman, a comedian, recalls his family's one-night fling with Christmas " undertaken as a mitzvah for a non-Jewish friend.
The award's first prize to a musical went to the writing duo for "How the White Girl Got Her Spots and Other 90s Trivia."
Ring in the holiday just like the old days " in person.
Ratmansky, the company's artist in residence for 13 years, has been lauded for his technical virtuosity and ability to communicate emotion to audiences.
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street " which helped inspire the musical "Wonderful Town" " is being demolished.
The poet Richard Marsh is winning praise in London for a one-man theatrical version of the action movie.
The playwright of "The Far Country" is using a contemporary lens to show "the way in which memory becomes hereditary."
After one holiday season lost to the pandemic and another curtailed by Omicron, seasonal staples including "The Nutcracker," "A Christmas Carol" and "Messiah" are back in force.
In "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker," performed by City Ballet and young students from its School of American Ballet, ballet comes full circle.
Anthony McCarten's biodrama about the artists' work together lifts the curtain on their friendship, or at least it thinks it does.
The Emmy-winning "Big Bang Theory" actor "could've done anything he wanted." Now starring in the tear-jerker film "Spoiler Alert," he's forging his own path.