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In Kimberly Bartosik's "The Encounter," young performers and professional dancers navigate a world in turmoil, looking for a way out.
For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
A revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers " and everything else.
The actor Sean Hayes is planning to come to Broadway next spring in "Good Night, Oscar," written by Doug Wright. But another playwright, David Adjmi, is not pleased with the way his earlier …
Rainer, who has said "Hellzapoppin': What About the Bees?," will be her last dance, tackles race, if at a puzzling remove.
"The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," a rarely revived play by Lorraine Hansberry, will be presented at BAM starting in February.
A new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes.
Haunt the streets at Halloween parades. Dance at a "Zombie Prom." Or find your way through a corn maze. We've got you covered on how to celebrate.
Esraa Warda, who grew up in Brooklyn, takes the North African dances she learned as a child and brings them to the stage and dance studio.
Florentina Holzinger's striking, bewildering and stomach-churning new piece, "Ophelia's Got Talent," opened the season at the Volksbühne theater in Berlin.
Gracie Gardner's play about illness, the body and our health care system is just as impersonal as the waiting room where her story is centered.
After a complicated journey to New York, Malpaso made it to the Joyce Theater with a program that showed it trying on various styles.
The first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in drama has four shows this season. "If you can hear the world singing, it's your job to write it down," she said.
He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, "A Soldier's Story."
DorkyPark's "Open for Everything," coming to the Brooklyn Academy, is mostly light and playful, energized by Roma musicians.
Atlantic for Kids' new play explores sibling relationships, using the delicate weavings of a Hawaiian craft.
Subtle connections bridge the worlds of two caregivers in Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, making its Broadway debut.
The Canadian actress Petrina Bromley has been in the cast during the show's surprise hit run on Broadway. It resonated because "it's about kindness," she says.
A new production of two of MarÃa Irene Fornés's short plays, "Mud" and "Drowning," tries to accentuate the weirdness of the playwright's worlds but too often overreaches.
The musical, which was known simply as "Cinderella" during a previous run in London, is a new adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
Elevator Repair Service, the experimental theater company, brings to life the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.
Seán Curran Company and Darrah Carr Dance present "CéilÃ," a pleasant show that doesn't break much new ground.
The City Center festival continued with Kyiv City Ballet, a Christopher Wheeldon duet and a daring work for Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.
In Victor I. Cazares's play, Walmart is a haven for a family of undocumented Mexican immigrants, but it comes with a cost.
