Looking Straight at the Struggles of Old Age
In two Paris theater productions, there's no sugarcoating the physical decline that comes at the end of a long life.
In two Paris theater productions, there's no sugarcoating the physical decline that comes at the end of a long life.
Sankofa Danazfro returns to New York with "Accommodating Lie," a curiously muted work about the display of Black Bodies
In the film version of "Tick, Tick … Boom!," about a composer who dreams of Broadway, a "Rent" die-hard discovers more to love in musical theater.
"Out of Time" at the Public Theater is intended to showcase the talents of older actors. "People want to dismiss your stories," the show's director says. Not here.
Hansol Jung's new play looks at the broken adoption of a little boy who is plucked from South Korea and moved to one American home, then shunted to another.
John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus's caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play.
A new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?
… Some never to return. This new Cold War musical about the Soviet-American space race pays tribute to the pups who preceded the cosmonauts.
A $125 million program offering guaranteed income to 2,400 artists across New York State who can demonstrate financial need is now accepting applications.
Miami City Ballet's production of Alexei Ratmansky's enthralling "Swan Lake" brings a beloved work into crisp, clean and musical focus.
A 1976 book of photographs and text traced her year at the School of American Ballet and made her famous. But a darker story lay underneath.
Pam Tanowitz's "Four Quartets," a rich mix of poetry, painting, music and dance, had its New York debut at the Brooklyn Academy.
His reviews for The Chicago Tribune, and his encouragement of the drama crowd, helped make Chicago one of the country's leading theater cities.
"We brought music to the mountains": The rebel freestyle form born in the '70s had a brief Olympic moment. Now it's experiencing a renaissance online.
Sutton Foster also stars in this neat, perky, overly cautious Broadway revival of a musical that needs to be more of a con.
The estate is contesting an arbitrator's ruling that it had been too aggressive in limiting productions of a 1970 adaptation of the novel as Aaron Sorkin's new staged version came to Broadwa…
Ritual and healing are at the center of Whitney White and Aleshea Harris's new play about a Black community that loses its members to a perpetual war.
This edition resembles past ones, with an international miscellany of approaches to the question of what filmed dance can be.
Bold takes on classic works defined theater in Germany for decades. But many playhouses are turning to new works by international dramatists.
The 35-year-old Off Broadway company and actor training center will open a new space, which will include a 60-seat theater and five sound studios, in April.
In a new memoir, the former president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music reflects on some of the organization's most memorable stagings and artists.
The pandemic has reshaped aspects of the show, which reopens Feb. 14, but its once and future influence on the theatrical life of the city remains undeniable.
Gina Duncan, who had been working at the Sundance Institute since 2020, will return to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to lead it out of the pandemic.
This Paper Mill Playhouse production is a welcome throwback to an era of physical comedy.
The school, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon more than three decades ago, told parents that the closing was related to financial issues.