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An imaginary electronic conversation between the two playwrights falls somewhere between a â¤ï¸ and a 🤷.
The "Glee" star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
With music by Solange and ballets by Kyle Abraham, Gianna Reisen and Justin Peck, the company's annual fashion gala prizes costumes over dancing.
With more than a half-century of work behind her, Rainer goes out swinging with "Hellzapoppin': What About the Bees?," which takes on themes of race and resistance.
Several Paris theaters geared up to open their seasons with the most famous English playwright. How would the plays be tackled if a woman's name were attached to them?
Etienne Charles's composition for the reopening of the hall honors the Afro-diasporic musical heritage of the neighborhood razed to build Lincoln Center.
In 1960 she originated the lone female role in an Off Broadway show that became part of theater history thanks to a record-setting run.
The actress, a Tony nominee for "The Skin of Our Teeth," is bringing her sharp eye for comedy to Atlantic Theater Company's production of "I'm Revolting."
A Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was "born to play."
Joanna Quinn's "The Whalebone Theatre" breathlessly follows a trio of British youngsters from frolics on the beach to service and spycraft.
Jonathan Rockefeller's Off Broadway production blends the charm and wit of the show's early days with more modern characters.
This 2011 work by the American-born, Europe-based choreographer Meg Stuart feels overextended.
The annual smorgasbord at New York City Center features dancers from Music from the Sole, the Bavarian State Ballet and Alvin Ailey.
"300 el x 50 el x 30 el," the Belgian troupe FC Bergman's ambitious theatrical installation, will open BAM's Next Wave festival with an elaborate set that recreates a rural settlement onstag…
Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project presents a "Romeo and Juliet" with same-sex lovers. And at Paris Opera Ballet, Alan Lucien Oyen goes Bauschian.
The hottest celebrity in town right now is an enchanting 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee puppet. She's drawing masses of admirers, but that's not always a good thing.
The South African choreographer Robyn Orlin mixes culture and politics with the help of the stunning performance artist Albert Silindokuhle Ibokwe Khoza.
An annual survey, suspended during the pandemic, resumes and finds theaters nationally doing fewer shows and torn between escapism and ambition.
A handful of works deal with the many questions of nourishment and nurture. How we feed. How we are fed.
"Handbagged," a play that opened in London a day after Queen Elizabeth II died, depicts a clever, compassionate monarch. But theatrical depictions haven't always been so reverential.
The Majestic Theater has housed "The Phantom of the Opera," which Prince directed, for the entire 35 years of its run.
In "Burn," a one-man dance-theater work, Alan Cumming tries to reveal the inner life of the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
"My Onliness" is voluptuous and frenetic, while "This and That" is a slip of a show. Both are pleasingly peculiar.
In shows like "The Burnt City," the chaos of war meets the curated artifice of performance, our critic writes. But "Oresteia" took a different view, and the audience was better for it.
Edna O'Brien's latest stage work, at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, imagines the inner lives of important female figures around James Joyce.
