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In tribute to a New York City institution, this week's Metropolitan Diary offers reader tales of encounters with Stephen Sondheim.
On the eve of concerts celebrating "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," the writer and performer also shares why "The Gnostic Gospels" feeds his soul.
Peter Anastos returns to the comedic troupe he helped found for "Nightcrawlers," a Jerome Robbins sendup at the Joyce Theater.
A new musical imagines the all-singing, all-dancing LSD trips of Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant.
Ms. Chen, who founded the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company in 1988, died while swimming in Hawaii, where she was vacationing.
The composer served as something of a mentor to Jonathan Larson and spoke frankly about the show after the younger man's death.
James Graham's new play draws parallels between the bad-tempered 1968 debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal and the rancorous public arena of today.
A versatile artist who performed with the Paris Opera Ballet, she was the younger sister of the famed dancer Maria Tallchief.
The royal musical had a bumpy road to Broadway, from a delay caused by the pandemic to a filmed version of the show on Netflix that was widely panned.
His days as a ballet prince are in the past. Now this regal member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings his own drama to the stage.
Bobby is now Bobbie in this confusing, sour remake of the 1970 musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth.
The Jim Henson TV special was a hit in 1978. Now its furry creatures return in a new theatrical production in Manhattan, just in time for the holiday season.
The Department of Cultural Affairs is awarding $51.4 million in grants to more than 1,000 nonprofit arts and cultural groups that are seeking to rebound from the pandemic.
This international production, an adaptation of the novella that is described as "a theatrical experience with musical elements," will run for five months.
This documentary chronicles an American ballet dancer's efforts to become a star in Russia.
In a country where the director is king, it's the hundreds of full-time players in the many house ensembles who have assured that the lights stayed on during the pandemic.
Victoria Clark stars in a playful yet powerful musical about a girl who is aging too fast among adults who behave like children.
In her one-woman Off Broadway show, the "Sex and the City" author invites audiences behind the scenes of her life with a wink and a cocktail.
Shuler, a former dancer, has run the theater since 2003, instituting its popular Fall for Dance series.
Fans have been streaming his music, buying his books, and trying to get in to see his shows, with a new revival of "Company" opening this week on Broadway.
Steven Spielberg rediscovers the breathing, troubling essence of a classic, building a bold and current screen musical with no pretense to perfection.
No apologies from our critic-at-large, who found plenty of movies, plays and TV series to nourish the culture nerd within.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" returned to Broadway, now in one part instead of two. It may feel smaller, but is no less dazzling.
The Broadway musical, "MJ," with a book by Lynn Nottage and directed by Christopher Wheeldon, began previews Monday.
A conversation about his legacy, his engagements with pop music and whether he has any true inheritors.
