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Elizabeth B. Yntema's Dance Data Project has been using a steady drumbeat of numbers to push the ballet world to action on gender equality.
The Interactive Storytelling Studio at the National Theater in London is using technology to bring a miniature musical to viewers' homes. It's one of several high-tech British projects pushi…
This hybrid of theater and game asks us to consider homelessness empathetically but can't overcome the friction between education and entertainment.
Helen Uffner has dressed Broadway, Hollywood and TV shows for more than 40 years. But high-rise developers and Amazon distribution centers are making it impossible to store her extraordinary…
Theater may be struggling, but Ron Simons is committed to opening his next show, "For Colored Girls," this spring.
Ricky Ian Gordon's "Intimate Apparel" and "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" are premiering in New York almost simultaneously.
A lighthouse keeper, the nephew living with her and a Japanese employee are on alert for U-boats and graver threats in this chamber musical set in 1942.
A new jazz opera reimagines Socrates' final hours. Expect queer romps, ancient Greek in-jokes and plenty of tulle.
Dozens of people who studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts during a period of more than 40 years say they were sexually, emotionally or physically abused there as mi…
The Berliner Ensemble, once known for reverent productions of plays by its founder, Bertolt Brecht, has come roaring into a new decade.
With Omicron complicating Broadway's return, Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed more assistance for commercial theater, which her budget director called "critical for the economy."
Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet's incoming artistic director, has half updated the 19th-century work for English National Ballet.
The actor reflects on continuing the Off Broadway revival's hot streak, and fighting against the stereotypes facing Asian American actors.
Theaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.
The French master teacher Philippe Gaulier has worked with stars like Sacha Baron Cohen. But at 78, are his methods, which include insults, outdated?
The 2007 play based on Khaled Hosseini's novel has been widely produced, including on the West End in London. It will come to Broadway in July.
With one play closed, Nottage can focus on "MJ" on Broadway and "Intimate Apparel" at Lincoln Center Theater. And maybe even catch her breath.
The experience of Jews who fled Germany in 1939 aboard the St. Louis luxury liner is the subject of a new production from the Arlekin Players Theater.
Excellent performances, including one by a well-behaved dog, warm up two experimental plays upstate.
Curtains are rising again after the Omicron surge caused widespread cancellations, but attendance has fallen steeply. Nine shows are closing, at least temporarily.
Despite the pandemic disruptions, this festival of contemporary dance from Asia went on, nearly as planned, with four North American premieres.
In his essays and plays, he provided a framework that linked playwrights like August Wilson to African rituals and mythologies.
The Northern Irish choreographer Oona Doherty looks at despair through an ethereal lens at the Irish Arts Center.
Through a staging of "Uncle Vanya," the director Ryusuke Hamaguchi creates an intimacy for his characters that lets the artifice of cinema fall away.
"Somebody Somewhere," a bittersweet comedy on HBO, will likely surprise viewers who know Everett as a self-proclaimed "cabaret wildebeest."
