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Ballet companies are reworking the holiday classic partly in response to a wave of anti-Asian hate that has intensified during the pandemic.
The "Slave Play" actress and the Chicago-based artist discuss generational gaps, success and the art that brought them each acclaim.
Our chief classical music critic remembers playing and teaching the unforgettable scores of "Sweeney Todd," "Sunday in the Park With George" and other shows.
The country singer and musical-theater fan was grateful to play the intense title role in "Waitress" not long after her Broadway-themed album came out.
The lyricist and composer, who died on Friday, wrote dozens of piercing tunes for Broadway. Here is a selection of them, as lean as a Sondheim couplet.
Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman have resurrected their Christmas act for "a big, old chosen family reunion."
Jake Gyllenhaal, Patti LuPone, Judi Dench and an all-star Zoom trio find the wit, pathos and heartbreak in a remarkable songbook.
Here's a guide to films, documentaries and other productions that provide insight into the composer-lyricist's sly wit and melodic acumen.
Lines of Stephen Sondheim fans formed outside Marie's Crisis Cafe in Greenwich Village as news of his death spread. Inside, it was all-Sondheim on the piano.
The playwright ended a run of "Paradise Blue" a week after it opened at the Geffen Playhouse. The theater acknowledged "missteps."
"I would ask you to sit back and luxuriate in his extraordinary words and music," the director John Doyle said before Friday's performance of the "Assassins" revival.
Audra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91.
With a childlike sense of discovery, Stephen Sondheim found the language to convey the beauty in harsh complexity.
In an interview on Sunday, the revered composer and lyricist, 91, contentedly discussed his shows running on Broadway and off, as well as a new movie about to be released.
In a never before seen interview, Stephen Sondheim sat down with The New York Times in June 2008 to talk about his life, career and accomplishments.
He was the theater's most revered and influential composer-lyricist of the last half of the 20th century and the driving force behind some of Broadway's most beloved and celebrated shows.
The radio and television journalist Faith Salie stars in a one-woman show about the perils of striving for achievement and affirmation.
Inspired by double Dutch jump rope moves she saw growing up in Brooklyn, she developed an influential dance technique based on archetypes found in African art.
As the scene expands so too have concerns about cultural appropriation and inclusion.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
Two London productions that play fast and loose with their literary sources lack the theatrical magic of another show that gives viewers the original, unadorned.
Whether it's the emotion coursing through Enda Walsh's plays or the energy pulsing through the streets of New York, the star of "Medicine" is picking it up.
The return of New York City Ballet's holiday classic will look a little different this season, with children 12 and above and new costumes for the party scene.
Wayne and Karey Kirkpatrick have come a long way from their beginnings in Christian rock, but they're glad to be creating a family-friendly musical comedy.
"I didn't think I'd ever perform on Broadway again," Natalie Mendoza said.
