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At the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer.
An artist's journey to establish her position in the world took her to the shooting range and produced a bold, original show.
Works that once horrified European audiences are now centerpieces of the drama offerings at the tony Austrian festival.
The actress, who covered for Beanie Feldstein, gets the part to herself for the next month, and Broadway fans are thrilled for her.
This New Zealand company returns to the Joyce Theater with two New York premieres, but neither are as penetrating as "Handgame," a vintage gem.
A veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups known for experimental productions.
The nonprofit helped make the Berkshires a destination for culture lovers under Julianne Boyd, who is retiring.
The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.
The new musical, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, follows a boy in 1960s Ireland as he recounts a tale of boyhood mischief and alienation.
The Tony- and Pulitzer-winning author of 'A Strange Loop' finally has an apartment to himself in Manhattan.
Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear gained prominence through TikTok and won a Grammy Award for their musical take on the hit streaming series.
The shuttered show is facing legal action from the actors, stage managers and designers who worked on the production.
The esteemed Chicago theater's artistic director is out, and artists and his supporters are upset with the company's board of directors.
Tired of sitcoms and game shows, she reinvented herself in a one-woman show about Gertrude Stein " and, later, in a gender-bending Shakespeare role.
The Ruth Stage's production understands the violence and identity crisis at the core of Brick's character, but other elements fail to cohere.
A former Chicago schoolteacher, she appeared on TV in 'A Different World' and 'I'll Fly Away,' winning an Emmy in 1993.
The hit play, closed since January, was expected to reopen on Broadway this fall.
Themes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity.
The playwright Kathy Ng imagines a world where mortality, eroticism and Hello Kitty collide in a spirited, if sometimes muddled, contemplation of loneliness and loss.
Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke's production of "Oresteia" at the Park Avenue Armory.
Chun Wai Chan is the first principal dancer from China in New York City Ballet's 74-year history.
The annual Paris l'Été hosts some especially strong multidisciplinary shows this summer, one of which includes a seven-hour hike.
Should Shakespeare's Richard III be reserved for disabled actors? Does the character have to be played by a white man? By a man at all? Three recent productions took different tacks.
A jazz trio and three other dancers join Dormeshia for a classy, classic program filled with swing.
Anne Washburn's 2012 play about a post-pandemic society reckoning with loss has not aged at all, our critic writes.
