60 Years of 'The Sound of Music': Optimism Endures
Six decades after "The Sound of Music" debuted on Broadway, it remains a cultural touchstone in community theaters, in books, on streaming services and inspiring an Ariana Grande video.
Six decades after "The Sound of Music" debuted on Broadway, it remains a cultural touchstone in community theaters, in books, on streaming services and inspiring an Ariana Grande video.
The album was an emblem of young women's anger in the 1990s. And now it's coming to Broadway.
A collapse at a performance of "Death of a Salesman," in which five people were hurt, shone a light on the run-down state of some playhouses in the city.
In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin.
Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.
This art form, which stems from a classic genre of protest song, gets a new spin in a musical by Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater.
An immersive theatrical production, based on the books that inspired the Martin Scorsese film, brings make-your-own mischief to a London hotel.
Prolific, erudite and caustic in his wit, he surveyed the entire cultural landscape " films, plays, books, art " and saw little that he liked.
The Guggenheim's performing arts series will host Ivo van Hove, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Anthony Roth Costanzo and more during its upcoming season.
Read and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival.
The Signature Theater's compassionate revival of Horton Foote's 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a slow route to devastation.
It's time for Broadway to embrace what's most joyous about songbook shows. Not biography, not coherence, but excess. Even "Moulin Rouge!" doesn't quite get it right.
The Broadway veterans Phyllis Newman and Adolph Green raised their family there and dazzled a long list of showbiz friends.
Will Eno's new play about the many people each person contains is glib at first, but grows, like life, from trick to tragicomedy.
The Tony-nominated performer will lead the cast of "MJ the Musical," which is scheduled to open next summer.
Stage productions of "Anna Karenina" and "Don Quixote" turn sprawling novels into gripping theater.
Alan Lightman's novel loses its charm in Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum's show, which lacks a sense of a sure artistic voice.
This lively reimagining of Dickens's yuletide perennial, written by Jack Thorne, returns the story's social conscience to center stage.
An exquisite Irish Repertory Theater revival captures a trio of lost souls aching to connect in their constricting small town.
Alexandria Wailes deftly weaves choreography and American Sign Language in Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls."
Playhouses and troupes beyond Broadway generate $584 million in economic benefit. But dependence on volunteer labor is high.
Bare feet, bare stage, roving musicians " and yes, those suits. Here's what goes into every performance of the stylish Broadway concert "American Utopia."
A new play focuses on the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and her friendship with Hertha Ayrton, a fellow scientist played by Kate Mulgrew.
His often satirical plays spoke for an alienated West Indian population in postwar Britain and for the people he left behind in Trinidad and Tobago.
Joe Iconis's new musical celebrates women's prison flicks and girl group harmonies. But his teen rebels could use a cause.