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She specialized in supporting roles, including an attention-getting recurring character in "The Big C."
Calls for diversity grow louder, and there are shows in the pipeline. But many are being shepherded by newcomers, not the powerful industry regulars.
Krzysztof Warlikowski, who is staging "Elektra" at the Salzburg Festival, gives ancient myths a contemporary flavor.
Eight short plays take cues from the 1930 Noël Coward comedy " but now the stakes are different.
Kwame Kwei-Armah, Julia Wissert and Eva Doumbia met online this week to talk about challenging the establishment, Black Lives Matter and the issue of white universality.
Electric performances, led by André Holland, transcend didacticism in an audio rendition that replaced a Shakespeare in the Park production.
Not so long ago, top stars brought top musicals to suburban arenas that started their lives as tents.
For a Cantor Fitzgerald lawyer, a summer ritual in Central Park is a reminder of how New York can heal the hurting.
Shakespeare in the Park and other outdoor venues are shut. But for performers and directors, open-air memories are as sharp as the bite of a mosquito.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch, and a reason to take a stroll Lower Manhattan.
Audience members seemed to be asking one another, "Are we really doing this?" But the over-the-top physicality of "Ionesco Suite" was worth it.
Though no dates are set, Adam Greenfield plans to present four plays, all directed by women, at the Off Broadway theater.
Most of them are available on short notice, after all. Live readings with some of the New Group's original casts and an Ian Dury jukebox musical are among this week's highlights.
Efforts like 'The Oedipus Project' are worthy, but in an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, they can misread drama and mislead about the present.
The annual awards show for Off and Off Off Broadway theater was prerecorded and streamed after the coronavirus led to cancellation of a live ceremony.
With an influenza pandemic and a war on, New York's health commissioner took an unorthodox stand, declining to shutter public entertainment.
The posthumous debut album by the Brooklyn rapper landed at No. 1, becoming one of the biggest releases of a slow summer in music.
A 29-page document released this week amounts to a call for wholesale restructuring of the system, onstage and backstage, on Broadway and beyond.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's streaming series begins with a "historical fable" about Catholic orphans and their new families in 1904 Arizona.
Five critics wade into the controversies (like its treatment of slavery) and examine the performances (especially Lin-Manuel Miranda's) five years after the show debuted.
How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch.
A documentary play based on interviews with New York doctors, nurses and paramedics underlines the inequities of a medical system "flawed from its root."
What was meant to have opened Shakespeare in the Park's season has found new life as a four-part audio play with resonance in the wake of Black Lives Matter.
Sex may sell this Starz strip-club drama, but at heart it's a potent, lyrical story about hard work.
"Staged," a six-episode sitcom, and "Talking Heads," a remake of a group of vaunted monologues, show what good can come of a bereft theatrical scene in Britain.
