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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera are among other institutions that have suspended their programs. Here's a list of closures and cancellations.
The Metropolitan Museum, Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic announced temporary closures.
Facing concern from actors and audiences about health risks during the pandemic, the industry announced that shows will be shuttered through April 12.
To celebrate the anniversary of her native Benin and other West African nations, the singer leads a program of mostly African songs from the 1960s at Carnegie Hall.
If you've done a musical in Marin County, you know the name Marilyn Izdebski, who has directed more than 10,000 kids over 41 years. Many cities have someone like her.
We asked Stephen Sondheim's admirers, some of them also his collaborators, to reflect on the songs that have stayed in their hearts.
An opinionated take on the songwriter's major works, from a delayed debut to a Pulitzer Prize- winning classic.
What's a birthday celebration without tribute concerts, new commissions and revivals of three classics? Here's how to join the party, live.
The sophisticated composer and his snappy songs have migrated from stage to screens. Give us more to see? Here's how.
Why did it take so long for the composer to be unambivalently embraced? Maybe because ambivalence is what he's embraced most of all.
Let's not underrate Stephen Sondheim any longer: Theater's greatest songwriter is also one of theater's greatest playwrights. Here's why.
The usher worked in recent days at "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Six," prompting a scramble to inform the public and clean the theaters.
The hero of Joe DiPietro's new comic drama is Margaret Chase Smith, a U.S. senator who had the rare courage to stand up to McCarthyism.
In James Shapiro's "Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future," the historical-tragical constantly muscles out the pastoral-comical.
Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.
Actors are being asked to suspend the tradition of greeting fans at stage doors, one of several steps that theaters are taking to limit the coronavirus threat.
In Hilary Bettis's play, a family separated by deportation wants to live regular American lives but discovers how mercilessly difficult that is.
What do Korean divers and Manhattan playwrights have in common? A new play looks for the connection.
This thoughtful, history-spanning portrait of elusive identities testifies to the versatility of its composer, Michael Friedman.
When it opened in 1968, the play broke new ground in its depiction of gay characters.
The Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov is free from house arrest but isn't allowed to leave Moscow. So actors from a Berlin theater went there to create his latest work.
"Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)," an En Garde Arts production, invites audiences to experience a musical gathering popular among immigrants, this one under the threat of a raid.
As part of our series "Read T a Poem," the actress performs a work by Maya Angelou.
On a set that transforms the Bushwick Starr into a cave beneath a tree, Jillian Walker tells a story of her family, and of blackness in America, that aches with hope.
The Canadian director's "The Seven Streams of the River Ota" is set for a world tour, after his most recent productions were embroiled in debates about cultural appropriation.
