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How do you turn a magazine article about air travel and race relations into theater? For "Help," Rankine's new play, she started with a pile of letters.
Young Jean Lee offers upbeat tunes about downbeat lives and inevitable ends.
Lucas Hnath's brilliant, boundary-melting play, starring a marvelous Deirdre O'Connell, is a first-person account of the violent kidnapping of his mother.
C.A. Johnson's play stars Kara Young in a full-body, whole-heart, tensed-muscle performance.
The writer Paula Vogel, the director Mark Brokaw, and the actors Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse on returning to a wrenching play two decades later.
"Girl From the North Country" cast members talk about the first time they heard Dylan's music.
Aran Bell and Roman Mejia among the nominees in the dance category. Sophia Anne Caruso and three actors new to Broadway are competing for the theater prize.
Lauren Yee's ambitious, tonally mixed play uses bait-and-switch tactics to approach the dark heart of a genocidal regime.
A cold case. An amateur sleuth. A new clue. But sometimes the murder isn't the real mystery.
The new play, titled "Common Ground Revisited," will be staged at the Huntington Theater Company early next year.
She may seem self-effacing, but it takes skill and smarts to be Nora and Hillary and, next, Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
With this season promising so many revivals and touring productions, our critic wonders whether it's possible for audiences to treat them as exciting arrivals.
The latest Broadway revival can't fix the painful way it depicts Puerto Ricans.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's dances for the Broadway revival swarm and sweep, but Robbins's choreography was something more central: the libretto.
This adaptation of a play by MarÃa Irene Fornés, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, is a compact but notable new work.
The feminist rallying cry inspired Chelsea Clinton's children's book about the likes of Harriet Tubman and Sally Ride. Now it's a cheerful stage adaptation.
Broadway audiences for "Grand Horizons" are getting a rare glimpse of this 80-year-old actor's secret weapons: levity and equanimity.
She had a long career onstage and on film and TV. But she found her greatest fame late in life, as a stern housekeeper on a hit HBO series.
The actress, whose FX series returns on March 5, puts "All That Jazz," A Tribe Called Quest and Norman Lear's comedies on her list of must-haves.
Cary Gitter's throwback romantic comedy, about an Orthodox Jew and his Italian-American neighbor, is kind of sweet and kind of clunky.
Acclaimed in London, the two-part play about gay culture and the legacy of AIDS drew a chillier response in New York, where it is set.
Ivo van Hove's attention-splintering revival of the immortal 1957 musical features new choreography, a ravishing orchestra and smothering visual effects.
Jerry Herman's buoyant score is the highlight of this Encores! production about a troubled silent-movie-era romance.
Peter Brook and Thomas Ostermeier are presenting unfinished shows in Paris, offering a rare chance to see how their productions come together.
Compelling revivals make "Endgame" (with Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe) and "Far Away" feel more unsettlingly relevant than ever.
