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An actress with an obsessive work ethic, Messing is learning to make a cake onstage in "Birthday Candles" on Broadway.
The Hugh Jackman-led revival has 76 trombones, 110 cornets, and took in $3.5 million in ticket sales last week, more than any show since the pandemic began.
Hip-hop, impromptu duckwalks and loving shade fill C. Julian Jiménez's new play about two cousins dreaming of escaping their day jobs.
The choreographer Nai-Ni Chen died in December. Now her company takes its next steps, beginning with a season at New York Live Arts.
A trenchant new comedy by Bryna Turner features Mary Wiseman in a comic tour-de-force as the guest most likely to make a scene.
In Sam Chanse's affecting play, a daughter tries to understand her mother, who resists any reminder of her escape from the Khmer Rouge.
The showcase of work by contemporary American playwrights will not take place this year, either in person or online " and after that, it's up in the air.
Billy Porter brings a heavy-handed touch as the director and adapter of this 1997 musical about prostitutes and pimps in Manhattan's bad old days.
This early 1990s play, based on the life of Marshall McLuhan, is being revived by the company that created it.
In "A Pandemic Notebook," the choreographer Karole Armitage presents her final program of new works. And, with Jock Soto, she returns to the stage.
In West End productions, Jonathan Bailey and Taron Egerton play a fighting couple, and Kit Harington from "Game of Thrones" plays the warrior king in "Henry V."
Tracy Weller's new multimedia theater piece focuses on those buried in New York City's potter's field and the inmates who dug the graves there.
Huang Ruo and Basil Twist's new choral-theater piece at St. Ann's Warehouse borrows from traditional Chinese tales.
This Chicago company presents Irish dance of great skill, while trying, sometimes successfully, to modernize and invigorate the tradition.
A dramatic reading by Theater of War Productions will include the author and practicing nurses who have held the front line of the pandemic.
Olga Smirnova said she was against the war in Ukraine "with all the fibers of my soul." Now, she has joined the Dutch National Ballet.
The composer's "Oratorio for Living Things," forced to shut down because of the pandemic, returns to the Ars Nova stage in Manhattan.
Lauren Lovette, a former principal with New York City Ballet, has been named the resident choreographer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Right when the actor thought he'd done almost everything, Ken Burns offered him the role of Benjamin Franklin, and, just maybe, held off an early retirement.
The former "Grey's Anatomy" star is making his Broadway debut in "Take Me Out." For that, he said, "I needed to go into a very unknown place."
The director of 'The Music Man' pays more attention to the furnishings onstage than to those at home. But that suits him fine.
John J. Caswell Jr.'s play is a political drama wrapped in the spooky pleasures of the horror genre.
The actor is directing an Encores! revival of the 1997 musical, updating it to confront hard truths about racism, poverty and carceral injustice.
The school's chairman and biggest benefactor, Bruce Kovner, had wanted its president, Damian Woetzel, to leave after a negative evaluation. He marshaled support and stayed.
The actor, who was in "The Social Network," shares how the film changed his view of social media and discusses his recent projects.
