Murray Schisgal, Who Brought the Absurd to the Mainstream, Dies at 93
With "Luv" on Broadway and "Tootsie" on the screen, he wrote with knowing, slightly askew humor about subjects like sex, family and failure.
With "Luv" on Broadway and "Tootsie" on the screen, he wrote with knowing, slightly askew humor about subjects like sex, family and failure.
She's been to 39 shows since the 2016 election, and believes Broadway will return. But she doesn't have the "gumption" to see herself depicted just yet.
Britain's National Theater hopes to reopen in October after being closed for more than 200 days. But even with the shutters down, it's been an eventful and emotional time for its staff.
The fund that covers thousands of performers will require that they work more weeks per year to qualify.
And just 20 percent of shows on New York stages were written by people of color in the 2017-18 season, a report says.
The Billie Holiday Theater in Brooklyn will spearhead The Black Seed, a strategic plan that will offer grants to up to 50 theaters across the country.
In a country in which cultural life is returning to an enviable version of normal, the fall theater season opens with reflections on the meaning and limits of freedom.
This provocative work is again revived, now for Netflix with an all-star cast including Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells.
Ten voices from around the world reflect on performing in " and ushering and seeing " some of the first live shows since March.
Airships float by, avatars sing and the audience is the jury in this visually enticing but overstuffed steampunk experiment.
One-woman plays by Tracy Thorne and Eliza Bent explore the problems of white power and privilege " and how people who say the right things aren't helping.
A versatile writer and actor as well as a director, he was also Littlechap in a film version of "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off."
A look back at the band's 15-year-old debut, "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out," a commercial success that simultaneously satirized and celebrated staged spectacles.
This week, meet the singer Tashera Robertson, hit a photo show and try your hand at making snow fluff.
Fresh off the success of his play "Barber Shop Chronicles," Inua Ellams has a new book out, "The Half God of Rainfall," about a son of Zeus who dominates on the courts.
The Ford Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies and others are aiding national and regional groups at risk of shuttering because of the pandemic.
Laura Linney, Patti LuPone and Jeremy O. Harris will also feature in the digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner's two-part epic on Oct. 8.
The interstellar adventure deftly mixes the lo-fi aesthetics of budget science fiction with dopey humor and experimental theater's sensibility.
A musical about two French chocolatiers may satisfy the hunger for live song and dance, but keep the insulin handy.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City.
Creative professionals can receive $5,000 grants through the end of the year, thanks to additional funding by the Mellon Foundation and others.
The Bridge theater in London has resumed performances after the coronavirus shutdown with a series of monologues by David Hare and Alan Bennett.
In a fall season without many live shows, everything is up for grabs. That includes the canon of classics " and where Bill Irwin might be performing.
Amanda Kloots kept the world informed while her husband, a Broadway actor, lost a battle with Covid. After many grueling months, she's trying to look ahead.
He directed unconventional works and championed diversity, both in the material he staged and in the actors performing it. He died of the coronavirus.