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The creator of "A Soldier's Play" has largely written for black theaters. But now he has the chance to remind the biggest audiences: African-Americans served, too.
Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
"Unknown Soldier," one of the last projects the beloved composer and lyricist worked on before he died, is coming to New York.
Yaël Farber's stunning, Dublin-born interpretation of this eternal classic finds the dizzying layers of performance that rule all our lives.
Bobby Cannavale and Carla Gugino will also be in the revival of the Tennessee Williams play, which will be directed by Robert O'Hara.
While at the Royal Shakespeare Company, he took several shows to Broadway. One didn't go so well.
Two new productions use everyday materials and artistic ingenuity to gently warn young audiences of the perils of climate change.
In a wide-ranging career, he was also the voice of Mark Twain for a Ken Burns film and of an "Outer Limits" reboot.
Edward Einhorn's playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.
Matthew Lopez on what inspired his two-part play about gay culture in the wake of AIDS, and the limits of "affirmative representation."
Did reaction to Matthew Lopez's award-winning play about gay history vary by generation? We put that question to readers of our theater newsletter.
In Tom Dulack's take on Milton, the devils get the best lines and costumes, while Adam and Eve are a snooze.
And elsewhere in Paris, smaller theaters take more radical cues from the L.G.B.T.Q. world.
The actress, who has returned to television with a CBS police drama, puts CNN, ABC Carpet & Home and her father's sculptures on her list of essentials.
The New Group's musical adaptation of Paul Mazursky's 1969 movie, featuring Suzanne Vega, doesn't smirk but it doesn't soar, either.
In an era when few if any producers were women, she got access to the Kremlin, China and more.
Hollywood has long cast her as a bombshell ("Sin City," "Karen Sisco"), but the actress has found an entirely different track onstage. Next up: "Anatomy of a Suicide."
This work of documentary theater feels like a master class. But what is it meant to teach?
In this dystopian satire, "American Idol" and "60 Minutes" still reign, the White House is in Cleveland and a pair of writers compete to save the world.
Performances of the show were filmed in 2016, just before Lin-Manuel Miranda left the cast. Disney said the release date would be Oct. 15, 2021.
The actors and musicians behind "Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)" see themselves in the stories they will share, and sing about, onstage.
The composer Matthew Aucoin is deferential to Sarah Ruhl's text, in a Los Angeles production that comes to the Met Opera next year.
Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl have adapted "Eurydice," her play about the Orpheus story, for Los Angeles Opera. Next stop: New York.
Unpretentious innocence and detailed choreography fuel Keone and Mari Madrid's West Coast urban dance riff on "Romeo and Juliet."
In Zora Howard's new drama, the kitchen is where the characters reveal their bickering-but-loving true selves.
