'Cabaret,' 'Phantom of the Opera' and More: Hal Prince's Hits Transformed Broadway
When Mr. Prince died on Wednesday at age 91, he left behind several lifetimes' worth of directing and producing successes.
When Mr. Prince died on Wednesday at age 91, he left behind several lifetimes' worth of directing and producing successes.
In Elaine Murphy's play, three women from one Dublin family tell a slice-of-life story through interwoven, interlocking monologues.
Mr. Prince helped bring to life a stunning lineup of shows: "Cabaret," "Sweeney Todd," and Broadway's longest-running spectacle " "The Phantom of the Opera."
Mr. Prince helped bring to life a stunning lineup of shows: "Cabaret," "Sweeney Todd," and Broadway's longest-running spectacle " "The Phantom of the Opera."
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge grapple with love, grief and vulnerability in "Sea Wall/A Life," paired one-act plays on Broadway.
Bereavement and self-destruction stalk the plays in Series A of this year's Summer Shorts Festival in New York.
Better known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: "Billy Elliot" and "Little Shop of Horrors."
Sam Rudy, whose career covers generations of Broadway history, is leaving show business " and New York City " after 40 years as a theater publicist.
A follow-up to the startling and divisive "Nanette" is just as startling and probably just as divisive.
The New York Music Festival production tells the story of the summer when Emmett Till was murdered.
Forbidden pleasures abound in this spectacular musical, starring a dazzling Karen Olivo as a doomed Parisian chanteuse.
The musical based on the grandiose Meat Loaf album shines a light on its songwriter, Jim Steinman, and the many twists and turns it took to get both projects made.
In this musical theater piece adapted from a Langston Hughes poem, the bass-baritone Davóne Tines embodies the evolving, divided soul of black America.
In Al Blackstone's show, the songs are what set the characters on their journey, not the steps.
An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
A London production of "The Night of the Iguana" starring Clive Owen asks for the audience's patience, and rewards it.
The producers of "Tea at Five," a one-woman show, say the play will debut on the West End instead, with a new actress.
Playwrights and comedians try to make sense of human brutality, and the public's feverish interest in real-life murder mysteries.
Annie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.
Jacqueline Novak's show, a stand-up comedy set that inclines toward theater, offers a personal and intellectual history of oral sex.
This season's wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and "Little Shop of Horrors," reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
The two-time Tony nominee is teaming up with the director Michael Mayer for a Westside Theater production in September.
On Sunday night, The Times presents a play, built from the words of the men and women who made the Apollo missions happen.
He held high-profile positions at the Metropolitan Opera and the National Endowment for the Arts, battling critics who wanted to abolish the agency.
Burt Lancaster is celebrated nearly 40 different ways; "Mum" crosses the pond; and a fierce, fiddling Finn, Pekka Kuusisto, comes to town.