How the World’s Longest-Running Musical Finally Made It to Broadway
“The Fantasticks” ran for decades in Greenwich Village. Now, in time for its Broadway debut, it gets a gender makeover.
“The Fantasticks” ran for decades in Greenwich Village. Now, in time for its Broadway debut, it gets a gender makeover.
Also this season, the return of Balanchine’s “Pithoprakta” at New York City Ballet, a choreographer guides audiences on a nature hike, and reflections on this American moment.
A year after a longtime staff member was killed at the celebrated dance center in Western Massachusetts, the recovery continues.
“I feel like that’s what Steve Lacy gives,” the “Gilded Age” actor says. She’s a fan of his new album, as well as Zora Neale Hurston and nude beaches.
“Come From Away,” about a remote Newfoundland community that embraced grounded travelers, is playing all over the world — even in the town where it takes place.
The film, which opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, portrays the rise of the British tabloid The Sun in Boyle’s trademark rollicking style.
The cast of 100 in “Public Record,” almost all amateurs, spotlights people who open their hearts and share their stories for five nights at the Delacorte Theater.
In “Electra/Persona” at the National Theater in London, the actresses turn a spotlight on performance and the slipperiness of identity.
The fall season kicks off with a jam-packed month of riches, including experiments in docu-theater and performances by Lupita Nyong’o and Victoria Clark.
From Hannah Reilly to Amanda Knox to clowns, who are the hype beasts of this year’s Fringe Festival? Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, went to Edinburgh to find out.
A residency at MoMA showed that Pageant, a Brooklyn performance space where experimental dance thrives, is really the sum of its artist parts.
The actress, 32, will make her directorial debut with the Irish short film “Paper Plane” at the Venice Film Festival.
In this semi-open-air staging in the Hudson Valley, the musical conjures Paris’s seedy cobblestone streets with an adept Jean Valjean leading the charge.
Floating Points brings his niche classical music obsessions and deep love for dance clubs to his ballet score and new album “Mere Mortals.”
“Here There Are Blueberries,” about archivists debating how to handle a troubling gift, will open at the Barrymore Theater in November.
At Berlin’s storied Volksbühne, a director’s attempt to revive a troubled playhouse with a free swimming pool has stirred fierce debates over race, class and public space.
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”
During her Hollywood peak, Parton played women who knew their value, whether they were a secretary, brothel madam, hairdresser or radio show host.
His performance as Frank-N-Furter, the cross-dressing mad scientist of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” was ahead of its time.
Curry thrived onstage and onscreen in meaty roles that brought him widespread recognition and generations of dedicated fans.
In movies like “9 to 5” and “Steel Magnolias,” Parton shined as a version of herself.
The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.
The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
It’s now haunting Broadway in this adaptation of the horror film franchise about a couple seeking a new start. Instead, they become prime targets.
“Dolly: A True Original Musical” is scheduled to begin previews in December after a strong-selling production in Nashville last year.