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In Germany, a sonically daring Chekhov adaptation and a post-apocalyptic western "opera" are breaking down barriers between genres.
Off Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare's sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York.
Melis Aker's new play with music, presented by Ars Nova and PlayCo., follows a musical prodigy without drive or passion.
Niall Jones's "Compression" at Performance Space New York asks that you adjust to the absence of the expected and tune into a different wavelength.
The new musical, based on the 1977 Martin Scorsese film, features songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb and is directed by Susan Stroman.
The playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, the composer Jeanine Tesori and the director Jessica Stone discuss their quirky Broadway musical, which was first a play.
Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not.
Not quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker's play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack).
She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for "The Secret Garden."
How a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a "deeply American play" about seduction.
No one knows what an egg yolk omelet is, but we all know that TV hosts should be relatable. Or should they? That didn't do Ellen DeGeneres any favors.
The play, written by Sharr White and directed by Bartlett Sher, will also star Danny Burstein and Zoë Wanamaker.
Luis A. Miranda Jr., a political consultant and activist whose son, Lin-Manuel Miranda, composed one of the Public's biggest hits, "Hamilton," was named chair of the theater's board.
The palace intrigue behind a mythic battle from 18th-century Japan is the subject of this bilingual play in Manhattan.
After critically acclaimed turns in "Station Eleven" and "The Harder They Fall," her latest role hit close to home. That's why she was hesitant to take it on.
Lolita Chakrabarti's stage adaptation of Yann Martel's award-winning novel will begin preview performances on March 9.
One family firm supplies seating for most of the West End's theaters, from flexible new spaces to Victorian treasures. Its chief designer reveals some tricks and traps of the trade.
Emily Johnson's "Being Future Being" unfolds in two parts, one at East River Park, the other at New York Live Arts.
Best known for her 1995 hit song "I Kissed a Girl," the enchanting singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is the star of a winsome and defiant autobiographical musical.
The playwright, whose Pulitzer-winning "Cost of Living" is now on Broadway, talks about "the precarity of life" and our inherent need to be taken care of.
Hanya Yanagihara's best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
Kent, the artistic director of Washington Ballet, will leave at the end of the 2022-23 season.
"The Mold That Changed the World" traces the life of the inventor of penicillin and offers a message: Don't take antibiotics unless you really need them.
The show, now in London, has a creative team that combines veterans of the film with some Broadway stalwarts. Performances will begin on June 30.
Crystal Pite's "Light of Passage" at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines.
