Critic's Notebook: Theater as Moral Meditation in 'Catonsville Nine' and 'The Courtroom'
Two shows enlist their spectators as witnesses, exhorting the Americans in the room to consider what our nation is doing in our name.
Two shows enlist their spectators as witnesses, exhorting the Americans in the room to consider what our nation is doing in our name.
The newest feat to be undertaken by the Public Theater's Public Works program will be an adaptation of the Disney musical "Hercules."
The play, by Florian Zeller, is slated for Manhattan Theater Club's 2019-20 season, along with works by Jeff Augustin and Qui Nguyen.
London's Almeida Theater has become a home away from home for the New York playwright Anne Washburn. Next: a very American comic drama called "Shipwreck."
The company acquired The Works Entertainment, the makers of the Illusionists magic franchise and other shows.
Underwriting the heart-rending "Everything Is Wonderful" has prompted a Baltimore couple to learn more about the car crash that killed their son.
The show has an unusually ambitious touring schedule, especially for a musical that was not a huge success on Broadway.
Busch's latest cabaret show, "Native New Yorker," brings a change of sartorial style and the music of the 1970s to Feinstein's/54 Below.
Ring in the year of the Pig with a concert, festival or film screening.
Theater for a New Audience will present Jackie Sibblies Drury's shape-shifting play, which had its premiere at Soho Rep.
In a new revival, Henry VIII lacks grandeur and Cromwell cunning. Without worthy adversaries, Sir Thomas More's dilemma never delivers the drama.
The song, written for the pregnant protagonist of "Waitress," has been claimed, unexpectedly, by men, children and singers of all sorts.
At the time of its closing, the show will have played 589 regular and 36 preview performances. The Broadway run will be followed by a national tour.
The director Romeo Castellucci explains some of the striking imagery in his staging of Scarlatti's "Il Primo Omicidio."
The Yard in East London is bringing young people to theater with programming that mixes avant-garde stage productions and club nights.
The director's new film, "High Flying Bird," stars André Holland as a fast-talking basketball agent who proposes a bold business move to his rookie client.
"Paradise Square" is the most expensive show Berkeley Repertory Theater has ever done. Its creators are prestigious, its major patron notorious.
Taylor Swift's movie role brings T.S. Eliot's part-gibberish poems for kids to life.
In a loose-knit scene packing audiences into intimate New York spaces, comedians are getting big laughs with original songs.
Mr. Miranda will play King Arthur on March 4, with the proceeds to benefit the nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater.
Productions in the region often take liberties with the text. But in stagings of Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, the directors (mostly) stick to the script.
Mads Mikkelsen, doing his rugged best, stars in this survival tale.
The creators of "Memphis," including a longtime member of Bon Jovi, are behind the new show that explores the fallout from a seemingly fairy-tale marriage.
Michael C. Hall, Will Eno and Sarah Benson team up for an unlikely, but very real production of "Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical."
A prizewinning play by Leah Nanako Winkler puts the traditional "crazy family" dramedy in a new social and racial setting.