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The Austrian choreographer's shows blend dance, stunts and sideshow-inspired acts to explore lofty ideas about gender and art. She pushes performers to extremes " and audiences, too.
"Burn" is an unlikely hybrid: A movement-focused show performed by a famous actor with no dance training, about a man whose medium was words.
A direct transfer of words was never going to work for such a complex show. So the team involved got creative.
For the musical's Hamburg premiere, a team wrestled with language and cultural differences to bring the story alive for a new audience.
Some have taken issue with the reframing of the musical, which now focuses on the love story of an Indian American woman and a white American man.
'White Girl in Danger,' a soap opera satire by Michael R. Jackson, will be staged in New York next spring by Second Stage and Vineyard theaters.
The show's producers have decided not to recast after stars Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster finish runs of slightly more than a year in the show.
In the solo play "Remember This," David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Marion Siéfert's "_jeanne_dark_," about a shy teenager beginning to express her sexuality, contains no nudity yet still ran afoul of Instagram's opaque policies.
At N.Y.U. Skirball, an exploration at the edges of beauty and death, with touches of Wagner.
Cameron Darwin Bossert's smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
Her company, Ballet Hispánico, performed for audiences across the United States and beyond. It also trained countless dancers.
As "Some Like It Hot" and "Ain't No Mo'" head to Broadway, following runs of "Tootsie" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," 10 artists reflect on an enduring trope and how it works, or doesn't, today.
Queen Elizabeth II was portrayed in plays and highbrow films, in made-for-TV movies and broad comedies and, of course, in "The Crown." Many sought to answer the question: What was she like?
The Tony Award-winning actress will step into the role of the musical's narrator, now known as Missus Hermes.
Michael S. Rosenberg, the managing director of the McCarter Theater Center, will succeed Arlene Shuler as the City Center president and chief executive.
We spoke to three actors and a playwright " Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz " who are taking big shots this season.
From a stage adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" to a Neil Diamond biomusical, the theater calendar this season stands out for its variety and energy.
It's a season of renewal and abundance " and also farewells: Yvonne Rainer makes her last dance and Kevin McKenzie says goodbye to Ballet Theater.
As offices and schools reopen, ParisOffFestival brings a carnival atmosphere to an area of low-income housing in the city.
The comedian Kate Berlant's latest experiment, directed by Bo Burnham at the Connelly Theater, positions her as an actress with a semi-traumatic origin story.
Jefferson Mays will bring his adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic to the Nederlander Theater starting in November.
After years of living "as if without history," the playwright belatedly reckons with his Jewish roots, and his guilt, in "Leopoldstadt," his most autobiographical play.
A revival of the classic musical offers a fresh twist on the founding for the post-"Hamilton" era.
Groban, playing the title character, will be joined by Annaleigh Ashford in a production scheduled to open in March at the Lunt-Fontanne.
