Susan Nussbaum, 68, Who Pressed for Disability Rights in Her Plays, Dies
In a wheelchair after being hit by a car in her 20s, she became an advocate for people with disabilities in her writing for the stage and as a novelist.
In a wheelchair after being hit by a car in her 20s, she became an advocate for people with disabilities in her writing for the stage and as a novelist.
Target Margin Theater stages an enchanting riff on "One Thousand and One Nights" inside an old Brooklyn garage. Tea and pastries included, blankets welcome.
A co-founder of the Naked Angels troupe in New York, he was a familiar face in Off Broadway theater, in movies and on TV, often playing tough guys with tormented souls.
Lucas Hnath's play brought the invaluable Off Broadway performer her first Tony Award nomination.
Hundreds of ballet dancers and students fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion. With opportunities scarce, many will have to keep moving if they want to keep dancing.
Performance venues at this year's Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in Brussels, include a disused museum and the upper house of Belgium's Parliament.
Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby's shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.
Billy Crystal, Shoshana Bean and performers from "Company," "MJ," "A Strange Loop," "Six" and other Tony-nominated shows will share songs and stories.
One hundred years ago this month, the interfaith marriage comedy "Abie's Irish Rose" kicked off a five-year Broadway run " critics be damned.
Despite an attempt to ban smartphones in the theater, a video of the actor's nude scene in the Broadway production of "Take Me Out" circulated widely online.
Mona Mansour's rich trilogy, now at the Public Theater, follows a displaced Palestinian family.
In her new comedy, Ana Nogueira spins zippy fun out of a fairly conventional story about a friendship strained by resentment.
The actor had been hankering to get back to Broadway after last appearing there in the 1990s. "Hangmen," for which he received a Tony nomination, gave him that chance.
The actress made theater history, becoming the first openly transgender performer to be nominated for a Tony Award for her work in "A Strange Loop."
The 41-year-old playwright's show "Fat Ham," set at a Southern barbecue, hasn't even had an in-person production yet because of the pandemic.
"The Lehman Trilogy," as well as revivals of "Company" and "For Colored Girls," led in their respective categories as the industry tries to recover from the long pandemic shutdown.
How did the actress feel after receiving her eighth Tony nomination? "I don't know. I just woke up. It feels great."
The English Concert's performance at Carnegie Hall showed off the ensemble's elastic responsiveness.
The Tony nominations spread the wealth among many worthy (and a few unworthy) productions, as if to salute them for arriving at all.
Twenty-five years after it was a hit Off Broadway, the playwright's Pulitzer Prize-winning work debuted on Broadway this season.