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To plug Keenan Scott II's new play, "Thoughts of a Colored Man," the producers sent a mobile barbershop around the city, in an attempt to diversify a Broadway audience that, Scott says, ofte…
A thrilling dramatization of the interrogation of the whistle-blower Reality Winner and a crowd-pleasing family comedy both rise above their pre-Broadway origins.
From the magazine's archive: a selection of pieces about the art we've missed so much.
In his new comedy, which he directs at Greenwich House Theatre, the playwright borrows from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as well as bits of "Cinderella" and "Pinocchio."
The "To Kill a Mockingbird" star returns to Broadway and discusses his protest music and how his new series, "American Rust," offers a window onto white, working-class towns like his own.
Martyna Majok's play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in America.
The novelist on his deliberate evolution away from literary formalism and "po-mo hijinks"; plus, two critics on a record-breaking season for Black playwrights on Broadway.
The awards ceremony was a pep rally and a processing of trauma, but it also raised questions about inclusivity.
In the author's work, colonization and racial hatred turn mother against child, Black against white, man against woman.
The first play to open on Broadway since the shutdown, about two down-and-out young Black men on a barren block, is a strange fit for the moment at hand.
For a nude production of "Antigonick," a translation of the Greek play "Antigone," performers for Torn Out Theatre dodged the crazies and the lookie-loos during rehearsals in Prospect …
Ngozi Anyanwu stars opposite Daniel J. Watts in her play "The Last of the Love Letters," which follows a pair of lovers grappling with their relationship, at the Atlantic Theatre Company.
David Byrne and Ruben Santiago-Hudson shared their visions for a post-lockdown, post-George Floyd Broadway in the latest edition of our subscriber-only event series.
After more than a year of abandoned stages and empty theatres, the minds behind the Broadway shows "American Utopia" and "Lackawanna Blues" speak with the New Yorker staff writer and critic …
New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre return to Lincoln Center, the Joyce hosts Ragamala Dance and Caleb Teicher, and more.
Last spring's doomed Broadway season is revived, along with plays by Lynn Nottage, Alice Childress, Lucas Hnath, Annie Baker, and more.
A former cab driver turned playwright created a site-specific performance called "Taxilandia," which takes place in a cab around Bushwick and swaps out intermission for a stop at a bodega.
The artist maps nature and his own consciousness.
The "S.N.L." cast member talks about "Schmigadoon!," the TV series she stars in with Keegan-Michael Key, her new pandemic manicure table, and doing mushrooms in the desert with body glitter.
Shakespearean, Method, and whatever it is that Nic Cage does.
The "Good Fight" and "Gilded Age" star talks about her late-blooming entrée into Hollywood and her ever-charmed life.
"It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive." Were the anti-vaxxers picketing the St. James Theatre last month Bruce fans?
The actress, now eighty-nine, spent decades being typecast and belittled. In a new documentary, she tries to recover her story.
The director talks about his film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical. Plus, the politics of race drives a wedge deep into America's largest Protestant denomination.
