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The inventive comic actor delivers a commanding performance in Shakespeare's portrait of feckless leadership in a sleek Off Broadway adaptation.
In Anne Washburn's darkly enigmatic play, a countercultural community hides the death of one of its own. But why?
The way an actor physically inhabits a character? A model's distinctive runway walk? Credit a movement director, who can make an ad, movie scene or fashion show feel intensely alive.
Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.
Born without the use of his legs, he appeared memorably on television on "Doctor Who" and onstage as, among many other roles, Hamlet.
Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.
The experimental play "Good Sex" lets audiences in on the process, while giving its performers an unusual acting challenge.
Martyna Majok reimagines her 2018 play about the immigrant women who at various points live in a basement apartment in the New York City borough.
A prolific journalist and author, he wrote the only authorized biography of Alfred Hitchcock and heaped early praise on the future Nobel laureate Harold Pinter.
The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.
For her new work, opening at BAM Fisher, Juliana F. May looks to early influences to create her version of a postmodern musical.
The Off Broadway shows "Hannah Senesh," "Jewish Plot" and "Playing Shylock" take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.
The pop superstar reinvented herself in the first "Wicked," but the sequel shows just how much further she can go as an actress.
A fashion designer and a choreographer created a work in which intentionally cumbersome garments lead and the dancers' movements follow.
The money, from the late Anupam Puri and Rajika Puri, will help the dance-dedicated theater in a time of uncertainty for organizations in the field.
Drew Droege's newest play Off Broadway is a lot like his others, skewering the entitlement of wealthy, oblivious gay men in Manhattan.
The latest starry revival of Samuel Beckett's play is on Broadway, and one thing is certain: Whatever you call its elusive character, he doesn't come.
This fall the offerings at American Ballet Theater, now in its 85th year, included a tepid premiere and touching debuts in Agnes de Mille's "Rodeo."
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of "The Jungle" tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.
She was a three-time Oscar contender playing strikingly different characters, in once case starring alongside her daughter and fellow nominee, Laura Dern.
Dedicated to Ukraine, Alexei Ratmansky's evening-length ballet "The Art of the Fugue" is both dispassionately unsentimental and profoundly moving.
This movie adaptation has a couple of laughs, but could have been better served by expanding its reach.
New shows by Jen Tullock, Jordan E. Cooper and others have a common theme: You can walk away from the church, but the songs stay with you.
Mthuthuzeli November was determined to get out of his impoverished home town. Now has his work alongside George Balanchine at the Paris Opera Ballet.
Tom Hanks returns to New York theater alongside Kelli O'Hara, and Ariana DeBose leads "The Baker's Wife," a cult musical.
