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A childhood friend of Leonard Bernstein, he won an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the film "West Side Story" and 12 Clio Awards for his work in TV advertising.
The company that created abridged musicals for schools has begun to tailor productions for older actors in community centers and nursing homes.
A new work " and revivals of a classic play and musical " are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
"The Prom" is the rare show with lesbian themes to reach theater's biggest stage. Gay women deserve more than drawing their own conclusions about Princess Elsa and Scout Finch.
Two British playwrights said their work on "Tree," a new work that will premiere at the Manchester International Festival, was not properly acknowledged.
In a limited run Off Broadway, the jukebox musical about love and rocking out in the 1980s now includes songs by Def Leppard.
Jacqueline Novak is poised for a breakout with "Get on Your Knees," a new one-woman show Off Broadway.
Nicholas Hytner's production at the Bridge Theater in London finds something fresh in a work that sometimes feels as if it's being done out of duty.
The musical adaptation of the 1990 film started strong at the box office, but no one onstage turned out to have the drawing power of Julia Roberts.
In his musical memory play at the Public Theater, he's no longer being indirect about the violence that shaped, and shadowed, his life.
What happens when the "Mindfreak" unplugs? A little less gore and a tribute to a magician who came before him. Plus: boob jokes.
AedÃn Moloney and Colum McCann lift the character from James Joyce's novel to create a celebration of womanhood for the stage.
Newly restored, May's darkest comedy is one of the great underappreciated American movies of the 1970s.
He was best known for playing a suburban father who lives with a furry alien. But he preferred the stage, and he said he had been "hugely eager" for the show to end.
Faith has had a powerful role in shaping some recent dramas. But plays can bring spiritual solace to the nonbeliever, too.
Robert O'Hara's interpretation of Lorraine Hansberry's classic, starring a brilliant S. Epatha Merkerson, puts the audience in the hot seat.
"This Is What Happens to Pretty Girls," by Ken Kwek, was based on testimony of about hundreds of women who were victims of abuse and harassment.
The original London production is closing this month after a 33-year run. When it returns, a well-loved feature won't be there.
His world tour "The Man. The Music. The Show." stopped at Madison Square Garden. But it would have been better on Broadway.
In a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
Grace McLean's eccentric and opaque new musical considers the traumatic roots of the sainted medieval mystic and composer Hildegard von Bingen.
The world premiere "kung fu musical" at the Shed isn't much of either.
Photography, his personal passion, is "quick moments of a life that are gone the minute you take your eyes away," he says.
This revival of the 1977 musical about the monotony of earning a living custom-tailors the original for City Center's 75th anniversary.
Jamie Lloyd's production of Harold Pinter's romantic triangle is transferring this fall after a sold-out London run.
