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Peter Handke's "Zdenek Adamec" imagines the psychological motivations of a young man who hoped to change the world by setting himself on fire, but whose name is now hardly known.
What happens when the edgy Ice Factory festival goes online? A sense of discovery tempered by frustrating technological glitches.
Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
The first professional musical staged in the United States since theater shut down is also a de facto public health experiment.
Jesse Eisenberg's audio drama, "When You Finish Saving the World," is coming to Audible ahead of a film adaptation with Julianne Moore.
MSG Entertainment, which owns Radio City Music Hall and manages the Rockettes, cited the uncertainty of the coronavirus.
He was chairman of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and a benefactor of St. Ann's Warehouse. He and his wife also helped create a center for women's history.
Expanding content and experimenting with form, the avant-garde finds a congenial new home online, as two recent offerings demonstrate.
In "The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy," an experimental theater lab operating from a closet adapts a timely tale about the solitude of cramped quarters.
In this gay haven known for its nightlife, the crowds are smaller this summer. And the nightclubs are closed. But by the pool, the show goes on.
With her sitcom over and marriage finished, Lucille Ball fulfilled an old dream: a stint on Broadway. It did not go well.
A Barrington Stage Company production won the blessing of the actors' union, but was unable to get permission from Massachusetts state officials.
A roundup of streaming theater: almost naked, kind of sacred, sort of mysterious and more.
Streamed productions from the archive of the Royal Shakespeare Company show the development of some top-rank British performers.
Playhouses were already suffering from deep funding cuts after a decade of austerity. Now, with the pandemic, many speak of ruin.
When actor training migrated online, our reporter gave herself two weeks to learn as many theater skills " and knife skills " as she could.
Mr. Menken, the decorated songwriter and composer behind "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Little Mermaid," completed his EGOT qualifications with his work on a Disney Channel series.
Shaun Prendergast's play, written to be performed in darkness, asks audiences to imagine what the "ugliest woman in the world" looks like.
Source Material presents a postmodern approach to talking about grief and isolation in quarantine.
This staging by the National Theater of Greece was broadcast live on Saturday from the amphitheater of Epidaurus.
On Thursday, 640 theatergoers attended the first West End performance since March. But some producers say further shows are unlikely until social distancing ends.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to, read and watch.
Manual Cinema, a Chicago arts collective, is highlighting four of its productions " vivacious hybrids of film and theater " in a virtual retrospective.
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Theaters in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig are back to regular programming, and with it numerous depictions of female tyrants and murderers.
