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A German playhouse realizes it's no longer competing merely against other local venues for audience attention.
Citing recent reports of abusive behavior, including by the powerful producer Scott Rudin, the actress said advocacy matters more than a lucrative role.
Soyica Diggs Colbert's "Radical Vision" situates the playwright of "A Raisin in the Sun" as a writer who offered "a road map to negotiate Black suffering in the past and present."
At times, the experience of "SOCIAL! the social distant dance club" felt no more freeing than dancing by myself in my cramped living room, our critic says.
Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown's popular two-character musical.
"The Seven Deadly Sins," a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking District.
In a haunting new digital work, "Whale Fall," Mayfield Brooks mourns Black bodies.
The park will host events for live audiences of 200 with institutions including the New York Philharmonic, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub and the Classical Theater of Harlem.
Highlights include a virtual production of Adam Rapp's "The Sound Inside" and a new reading series by Roundabout Theater Company.
With playhouses closed, theater fans have taken drama into their own hands and mouths, forming play reading groups online and off.
Erika Dickerson-Despenza's play about Black women struggling to survive Hurricane Katrina gets an ear-tingling podcast production.
The celebrated choreographer created roles for her. The critics hailed her. Yet her death a year ago went largely unnoticed in the dance world.
Lincoln Center, whose theaters remain closed by the pandemic, will cover the plaza around its fountain with a synthetic lawn as it pivots to outdoor performances.
At the Yale School of Drama, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris found the kind of classmates that you can trust with your first drafts.
The Edinburgh International Festival, canceled last year, said it would proceed in August thanks to three specially built pavilions.
The show's final season was delayed by the pandemic and shot on the streets of a still-recovering New York, but its enchanting vision of the city remains intact.
The "Nomadland" filmmaker is the first woman of color to take the feature-film directing prize. She's now the prohibitive front-runner for the Oscar.
This week, spend story time with the National Postal Museum, listen to a lecture from the artist Lorraine O'Grady or take a Syrian cooking class.
A familiar face to British theatergoers, he was also well known for his role as an eccentric father on the popular sitcom "Friday Night Dinner."
The choreographer's "When We Fell," for New York City Ballet, is among the most beautiful dance films of the pandemic.
A new project is producing sign language covers of 10 seminal musical works recorded by Black female artists.
Casel's joyful and generous spirit is as vivid as ever in a new virtual presentation by the Joyce Theater.
The intimate venues known as tablaos have mostly remained shuttered even as pandemic restrictions ease. That puts at risk a formative element of many flamenco performers' careers.
The autobiographical solo show from Daniel J. Watts shows off his skill with spoken word and dance, but doesn't add up to more than the sum of its parts.
In New York opera circles, an autograph request from her, the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade said, was considered "a special type of approval."
