The Truth Is, 'Cats' Is as Inscrutable as That Trailer
Why was the musical a sensation? What's with the plot? Based on what we know of the show, here's our guide to this unlikely mash-up of C.G.I. and T.S. Eliot.
Why was the musical a sensation? What's with the plot? Based on what we know of the show, here's our guide to this unlikely mash-up of C.G.I. and T.S. Eliot.
How Adrienne Warren learned to stop fighting herself and interpret the musical role of a lifetime.
A tepid thriller from Matt Williams leaves too much time to ponder the holes in its plot.
Jazz unites two brothers, one accused of plotting terrorism, in Idris Goodwin's play.
Tricia Tait has attended the Tony-winning musical revival 55 times so far. At the 50th, the cast gave her a standing ovation.
She will succeed Jack Viertel, the longtime artistic director of this popular City Center series, which revives shows of the past.
Raúl Esparza faces the realities of the restaurant business in Theresa Rebeck's energetic but formulaic art-versus-commerce comedy.
In this delicately wrought portrait of a dying choreographer and her family, Richard Nelson's play considers the redemptive powers of art in fractious times.
This convoluted play chronicles the breakdown of a conflicted, displaced East African woman in the cosmopolitan West.
A bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare's thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses.
While Renée Zellweger plays the star onscreen, a host of cabaret performers pay homage to the gay icon night after night onstage.
The professional and personal have blurred for young cast members of Matthew Lopez's play, which offers a communion with victims of the AIDS crisis.
Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein go on tour; the company Taylor founded honors him; and a French film our critic loved opens in New York.
Tawni O'Dell set herself a bracing challenge: Writing and reliving her family's trauma onstage. But it's more than the novelist can pull off.
Christiane Jatahy's surgical adaptation of "Three Sisters" takes the audience from stage to screen.
Three very different Halloween adventures test a horror-film enthusiast with little experience visiting haunted houses.
Writers, directors and other creators share recommendations for how to spend the scariest night of the year.
Starring as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman" in London has whetted Wendell Pierce's appetite to take on all the big roles.
Tina Satter's remarkable docudrama recreates the bizarrely banal interrogation that led to the arrest of the intelligence contractor Reality Winner.
In Paris, the mythological Greek character Electra can once again be found in a theater, while the heroine of a quirky new play is inspired by "Rocky III."
When "Macbeth" meets McDonald's, a meaty new musical is born.
As the self-involved, self-lacerating womanizer in the play "Linda Vista," Ian Barford aims to offer the audience just enough reasons not to give up on him.
In "Still Here," a biography by Alexandra Jacobs, Stritch comes across as a matchless talent and a hopeless neurotic.
Suddenly all seems to be going the British actress's way: A first book, an Off Broadway production of her play and a starring role opposite Tom Hiddleston in "Betrayal." If only it were that…
The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.