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In John Guare's Möbius strip of a play, John Larroquette is a playwright who finds himself trapped in a surreal mystery called "Nantucket Sleigh Ride."
A team of workers spent Friday at the Park Avenue Armory putting together the centerpiece of the set for "The Lehman Trilogy," an 800-square-foot transparent cube.
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, now starring in "Marys Seacole," is drawn to the toughest, brainiest roles. And playwrights are drawn to her to pull them off.
"Actually, We're ______" follows four millennials dealing with love and infidelity, but it's an unfunny play that would rather be a sitcom.
This meandering work of musical stand-up theater, from the TEAM and the National Theater of Scotland, probes the past and present of two nations.
Gaspar Noé's "Climax" is the latest movie to push the ecstatic, frightening qualities of dance into horror. A body holds plenty of space for terror.
Elba drives up with both a film and a Netflix series that revisit his other life, that of a D.J.
The play "Nassim," which never features the same actor twice, reminded the acclaimed writer and performer of the power of listening.
Ahead of Season 4, the showrunners talked about what it's like to portray excess in a world that keeps stretching the definition.
If/when he manages to separate from his group of friends, Mr. Rannells will take a Swiffer to his floors, attempt to work out, or listen to a podcast.
With a few changes of emphasis and one major lyric rewrite, the 1948 musical comedy comes through detox as a bawdy, heady pleasure.
Thanks to a viral musical that just opened on Broadway, Ned Vizzini's 2004 novel is reaching a big new audience, five years after he killed himself.
Throughout Germany, ambitious modern reinventions of plays by Sophocles and Aeschylus argue for the timelessness of these ancient works.
In 'Hate___,' the main characters argue over what it means to be Muslim, but mostly they want to get tangled in the sheets.
A troupe that specializes in "junk spectaculars" turns to McGuffey readers " and peanut butter " in a show that explores schooling and humiliation.
Chisa Hutchinson's earnest morality play spends time with a Newark schoolboy and the brusque cafeteria worker he befriends.
The Tony-winning actor will play Harold Hill in a revival that includes members of the creative team behind the recent production of "Hello, Dolly!"
The Temptations' dancing was essential to their allure. Sergio Trujillo makes it more intricate, stylistically varied and narratively sophisticated.
A low-key spotter of high-wattage talent, Jason Eagan has made Ars Nova the launchpad for creative types merging uptown and downtown sensibilities.
The decision to give up a baby years ago resurfaces for a couple in Sofia Alvarez's play at Theaterlab.
The first draft of Deb Margolin's play pitted Bernie Madoff against Elie Wiesel. The current version gives her freedom to embellish.
"Once Upon a One More Time," a musical comedy featuring 23 songs from the pop star's catalog, explores an alternative arc for some classic princesses.
In Christopher Hampton's translation of Florian Zeller's Freudian chamber play, Ms. Huppert confirms her reputation as the most fearless of actresses.
Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz's cult sci-fi musical about high school paranoia arrives on Broadway with its wholesale klutziness intact.
Tori Sampson's play blends elements of mean-girl comedy and African folk tale to create a fable for our time about women and their bodies.
