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This ravishing and singular musical, written and directed by Conor McPherson, hears America singing " Dylan " during the Great Depression.
Vivian Neuwirth's play is a fictionalized recollection of the life of the novelist John Kennedy Toole, who died before his Pulitzer-Prize winning classic "A Confederacy of Dunces" was publis…
France's movie business is consumed by debates about gender inequality. Onstage, female theatermakers are bringing women's stories to the fore.
Yes, his new Broadway play is called "Hangmen." Sure, he writes about violent people doing violent things. But at heart, he said, he likes a good laugh.
The stage adaptation of Rex Pickett's novel about two friends on a last-hurrah wine tour preserves the white male wish fulfillment of the original.
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's show at the Public Theater, with live music by Steve Earle, is based on a real-life West Virginia mining tragedy.
Richard Greenberg's overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
The postmodern take on the classic, directed by Jamie Lloyd, will have a limited run in May.
A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon's poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.
A new play by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of the 1980s and '90s sitcom, will bring the show's characters into the present day.
The playwright Richard Greenberg has dedicated himself to chronicling urban elites. With his two new shows, he's re-entering the theater in a heightened cultural moment.
Prebble won the annual prize for female playwrights, for her work about a Russian assassination on British soil.
In Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite," they are playing three different couples " and are seeing more of one another than ever.
Ethan Lipton's delirious Western comedy features a pigtailed gunslinger, a soul-sucking demon and singing puppet cactuses, among other inspired flights of fancy.
Tweaks to dialogue, costumes and lighting cues came daily, as the cast and crew of Richard Greenberg's new play prepared for opening night.
Katori Hall's genial play, built around a cooking contest in Memphis, uses a sitcom structure to explore black masculinity.
He provided the administrative know-how that got the theater troupe off the ground in 1967. That he was white drew some criticism.
The venue will expand its cultural offerings with a slate of multidisciplinary works, including projects by its master artist-in-residence, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
A cheeky musical about the ill-fated wives of Henry VIII is already a hit in Britain, on TikTok and on cruise ships. Now it is aiming to establish sovereignty on Broadway.
Three plays consider the divisions wrought by Brexit, Britain's surveillance state and the terror of the news cycle, with varying levels of success.
"Grand Horizons" and "Dracula" assert the full humanity of women, a matter not as settled as we might like to think.
A "revisal" of a Meredith Willson musical has a strong female lead who doesn't quit, and her unrelenting energy makes for a static production.
Madison Square Garden opened its doors for the first time to a Broadway play, as well as to thousands of students from across the city. There were a few logistical hurdles.
The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn't come to life in Pearl Cleage's play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.
That's because he is the playwright, and the star, of "The Minutes," a breakneck comedy about political blood sport in a small town.
