'Wicked' Hits the Road, Carrying the Hopes of Broadway Tours
The production, which starts Tuesday in Dallas, is the first Broadway tour back onstage, a test as American theaters seek to rebound from the pandemic shutdown.
The production, which starts Tuesday in Dallas, is the first Broadway tour back onstage, a test as American theaters seek to rebound from the pandemic shutdown.
In "Putting It Together," James Lapine recounts how he and Stephen Sondheim created the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical.
Denise Fennell and Rick Pasqualone were married an estimated 5,000 times between them as stars in "Tony n' Tina's Wedding," the Off Broadway hit.
Where justice is virtual, crimes have no names and audience members step up to the dock to examine anonymous witnesses.
The Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater will use the funds, along with $7 million from the city over the last eight years, for an expanded South Bronx space.
Children under 12, who cannot be vaccinated, can show a negative test to attend. But the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall plan to bar them for now.
Mitchell Taylor Button was accused of abuse, and his wife, Dusty Button, a dancer with a large Instagram following, was accused of participating in some of it but not named as a defendant.
The troupe's schedule includes two engagements in New York, at the Joyce Theater in October and New York City Center next spring.
The theater offering at the Alpine festival features reworked classics by Shakespeare and one of the event's founders.
The company's response to pandemic cancellations? An eight-city tour with sleeper buses and a foldout stage to perform outdoors.
Plays about writers, including "Mr. Fullerton," a new potboiler probing Edith Wharton's love life, too often undermine the real brilliance of their subjects.
James Lapine's book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic.
The festival, which runs from Aug. 11 to Sept. 5, features a flurry of music, dance, and comedy performances from both established and emerging artists.
The season features 18 companies, including some, like Malpaso from Cuba, whose shows were canceled last year.
During the pandemic Clara Miller stretched beyond dance to find another artistic voice.
Amar Ramasar, a principal dancer who was denounced by colleagues for sharing vulgar texts, will leave the company in May.
He led a big band, conducted on Broadway, collected Emmys and for nearly 50 years led the orchestra on the annual Tony Awards broadcast.
Kara Medoff Barnett, who has held the post for the last five and a half years, will leave later this year.
The annual summer festival in Massachusetts has tried to adapt amid the pandemic and calls for more diversity onstage.
A selection of New Yorkers reflecting on their pandemic experiences became part of this piece, conceived and choreographed by Andrea Miller.
"Merry Wives," an adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, had already pushed back its opening night by nearly two weeks after an injury to its leading man.
Archie Burnett, dancer, teacher and a father of the House of Ninja, has a show at Jacob's Pillow. With his cast, "it's like a family love affair."
The Drilling Company returns to live theater with this slapdash tragicomedy about two cousins who fall for the same woman.
Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis, both ensemble members, will be the first pair to lead the company in its history.