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Sarah Kane's 1999 play, performed live at the Chichester Festival Theater and available to stream this week, meditates on power and powerlessness, and makes specific devastation feel univers…
Watch a theater maker's story of becoming an elected official, Greek tragedies transposed to Chicano America and Daniel Kitson's tour of the ghostly empty theaters of Britain.
Theaters may be closed, but streamers and studios are flocking to the stage to meet the insatiable demand for content.
Our theater experts provide a guide to some of the successful (and failed) cinematic adaptations of plays and musicals " all for your streaming pleasure.
The task: write songs for Archibald MacLeish's adaptation of a classic New England morality tale. What audiences saw (briefly): A play without music.
The New York Times theater critic, who stepped down after 27 years, recently responded to readers, including one hungry for a do-over on his review of a blockbuster musical.
Five Black women narrate a filmed rendition of Claudia Rankine's heady play, which was rethought after an initial version was shut down by the pandemic.
Three British companies reimagine a murder mystery for the virtual stage. Except there's no stage, and no part of it is live.
Would you like to see a new musical from the people who brought you "West Side Story"? For better or worse, you probably never will.
Robin Frohardt has turned a vacant space in Times Square into a colorful installation that slyly doubles as an eco-warning. Puppets have their moment, too.
The goal: a comedy about mistaken racial identity inspired by protests over "Miss Saigon." The result: a backstage farce that never got to opening night.
A Vineyard Theater streaming project re-enacts verbatim interviews with James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and others to explore echoes between the past and the present.
Irish Repertory Theater's ambitious virtual rendition of the O'Neill drama finds a family trapped by a father's grandiose illusions.
Delayed from the summer, France's biggest stage celebration was further curtailed as restrictions again hit the country. That made the moments of grace that were possible all the more powerf…
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City.
This summer, a woman went to outdoor shows at two beloved theaters in Massachusetts. She and her brother are now helping them to cover their costs and survive this winter.
The Broadway marquee was up, but this crowd-pleasing musical never made it out of Seattle. Among the creative differences: How fat should Falstaff be?
In New York, trick-or-treating has been curtailed, and parades called off. But there are plenty of ways to please and spook the little ones.
The story of a marriage saved by the pandemic, "True Love Will Find You in the End" features a live audience but recorded actors.
As Broadway remains on pause, the former "Hamilton" star voices a mythical goddess in Netflix's "Over the Moon" and is lending her support to causes she believes in.
The lyricist of "Fiddler on the Roof" and many other shows has always worked at home, in the Beresford apartment he shares with his wife, Margery.
His work in theater, dance and opera helped redefine American stage design.
The lawsuit argues that if bowling alleys, casinos and gyms can open, why can't performance venues with fewer than 200 seats?
Sinclair Lewis's 1930s novel-turned-stage play about the rise of fascism in America returns as an audio drama from Berkeley Rep.
Sam Tutty, Sharon D. Clarke and Andrew Scott are among the actors to triumph at the coronavirus-delayed awards, the British equivalent of the Tonys.
