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With playhouses closed for the next few months, actors and backstage crews are looking for new ways to make ends meet.
Adapted by Tina Fey from her 2004 film, the musical played 834 performances. A national tour is expected to resume when theaters reopen.
Three theaters are exploring "Swingin' the Dream," which tanked on Broadway in 1939, but opens a window on the racial and artistic dynamics of its time.
The Under the Radar, Prototype and Exponential festivals are ready to open our minds with experimental work, even if their doors are shut.
With a history of the Thornton Wilder classic coming soon, we talk with performers who found personal inspiration in the play's beating heart.
The history of the Royal Academy of Dance, outlined at an exhibition in London, is synonymous with the history of ballet in Britain.
One of the founders of Mabou Mines, he reveled in being an outsider even when his celebrated "The Gospel at Colonus" reached Broadway.
What started as a TikTok meme and became a crowdsourced musical could have online lessons to offer for Broadway.
We talked to the Broadway stars behind a virtual performance of the animated film. Inspiration started with quirky TikTok segments circulating this fall.
Nicolas Cage hosts the history of swearing. Lorde writes a book and Julie Mehretu takes over the Whitney. This new year has to be better, right?
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A big-box store, a hotel for transgender women and a dinner party gone awry are some of the places your ears will take you to.
Her character on the hit 1960s sitcom radiated all-American wholesomeness and a youthful charm. After her TV career cooled down, she focused on theater acting.
On Jan. 4, 1981, the effects-heavy production opened and closed on the same night. Forty years later, the creators revisit a very expensive Broadway flop.
Brave Spirits Theater expected to mount an ambitious cycle of eight history plays. Instead it became yet another victim of the pandemic.
Tom DeTrinis's solo show is full of rage, but in a way that's bizarrely out of touch with this overwhelmingly disastrous year.
With theaters and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has taken a deeper cut than it has in restaurants and other hard-hit industries.
He played a role in producing more than 100 plays and musicals. And while he kept an eye on the bottom line, he could be seduced by sheer artistry.
A new audio series from Rattlestick Playwrights Theater imagines the bustle of the trains before the pandemic " one story and one station at a time.
Thanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the holiday extravaganzas. So how does this silly British tradition translate?
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Fans in the theater world, including Matthew Broderick and Debra Messing, will appear in a Christmas Day telethon to try to save the West Bank Cafe.
Her Broadway career, fueled by her crystal-clear operatic soprano, brought her Tony Award nominations for "Showboat," "The Music Man" and "Mary Poppins."
With their field rocked by unprecedented challenges in 2020, these people and groups " some notable, some new " stepped into the breach.
"Stars in the House," a variety show and fund-raiser, started just after the Broadway shutdown. Some 250 episodes later, its creators won't quit.
