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For affluent and educated 30-something New Yorkers, a favored set of the playwright Matthew López, a chain-hotel reception is as tacky as it gets.
The Rainbow Room event is meant to honor nominees; guests aren't allowed. But when your father works there, that changes everything.
J.J. Pearce High School in Texas staged one of the country's first school productions of "Cats: Young Actors Edition," a new one-hour version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical.
"Hamilton"-mania opened a new chapter for stage musicals. But how have shows since balanced the complexities of the past and the politics of the present?
James Ijames's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set at a Southern barbecue, gets its first in-person production at the Public Theater.
An initiative by the League of American Orchestras will enlist 30 ensembles to perform works by six living composers, all of them women.
The Wallace Foundation will fund approximately $2 million to $3 million in support for each organization, spread across the country, over the next five years.
The fairy-tale musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, will feature Sara Bareilles and a cast of much admired theater performers.
The year's festival features local troupes. "The stories and music and dance that evolved here were just as important" as those from Africa, its director says.
Jodie Comer, from the TV series "Killing Eve," makes a thrilling stage debut in "Prima Facie" on London's West End.
Irondale Ensemble's adaptation of Brecht's antiwar epic captures some of its spirit but lacks any real philosophical or political heft.
This New York City Children's Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou's celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain.
Justin Austin's program in the Board of Officers Room at the Armory included three cycles of Langston Hughes poems.
In a delayed celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Brown company presented two dazzling works she made with Robert Rauschenberg.
Robert Ainsley, a champion of new American opera, takes the reins from Francesca Zambello. He said the festival would continue to showcase work that tells "everyone's story."
The freelance director will succeed James Nicola, who has led the Off Broadway nonprofit since 1988.
A public art campaign in Palermo, Sicily, is reminding residents of the city's grim Mafia years, and is encouraging them to resist creeping organized crime influence.
The playwright Trish Harnetiaux's new show, set entirely in a car, follows a family of travelers. It bravely, if not entirely satisfyingly, explores alternate realities.
"There's something about this show that buoys me up with an energy that I didn't think I had," the Tony nominee said of "The Music Man."
The British tenor Allan Clayton's portrayal of the title role in Brett Dean's opera is personal, emotional " and a breakthrough.
Édouard Louis grew up scorned by his family for being gay. Now he sees homophobia as part of the portfolio of "humiliation by the ruling class."
The star of stage, film and screen has already won five competitive Tony Awards, and starred in several Stephen Sondheim musicals.
A historical drama revisits a 19th-century scheme in which Irish girls of "good character" were encouraged to immigrate to Australia.
In a long career onstage (including Broadway), in movies and on television, he ranged across genres, from sketch comedy to science fiction.
This gentle musical, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, combines Scottish folklore and live looping technology.
