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The four musical comedy leads of this production insist that they're not as narcissistic as their characters. Even if they're playing versions of themselves.
Steven Levenson's new play about young '60s radicals has the unintentional effect of making all protest seem childish.
Ngozi Anyanwu's tender new play, directed by Awoye Timpo at the Vineyard Theater, considers the nature of memory in the aftermath of a tragedy.
Caitlin Saylor Stephens's play, directed by Meghan Finn for the Tank, is like a fun house ride that's just a pile of distorting mirrors.
A new biography celebrates his mysterious life and art.
The lineup also features work by Ifeoma Fafunwa and Tania El Khoury. The festival's director says that the global element is "important now more than ever."
Advice from Mike Birbiglia, who credits luck, his wife and Ira Glass for helping "The New One" reach the big stage.
The improvisatory group will perform at the Greenwich House Theater starting in January. Mr. Miranda said he will join them occasionally.
Jefferson Mays, a renowned Broadway shape-shifter, takes on more roles than he can count (including writer) in a new one-man "Christmas Carol"
After Anna Wintour, Ryan Raftery takes on Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan in a satirical bio-musical. Will his subjects be amused?
NBC celebrates 15 years of "Wicked" on Broadway. And Alexandra Pelosi breaks out of her liberal shell in a new documentary.
Ms. Shange's play featured seven black female characters named for the colors of the rainbow and inspired generations of playwrights.
Soho Rep continues its laudable tradition of sure-to-be-divisive plays with Kate Tarker's word-drunk new satire of … well, something.
The music soars but the creative process is flattened in a biomusical devoted to the poet's early adulthood.
Adam Gwon's chamber musical about four New Yorkers is being revived Off Broadway in a production by Keen Company.
Using unorthodox methods (walk around a room, speak it together), she helped actors find their voices by feeling the weight and rhythms of the words.
"The Chosen Ones," a theater production in Budapest, raises the chilling prospect to investigate anti-Semitism and other prejudices.
Miranda Lambert leads the female trio, whose third album, "Interstate Gospel," is timeless and harmony-laden.
She manages to find time for everything but writing plays. But on her Brooklyn porch, with neighbors, that can wait.
A white liberal historian and a frustrated African-American student make a combustible combination in Eleanor Burgess's play.
Samuel D. Hunter's golden diptych, set in twin cities in Idaho and Washington, gets a riveting production, with barbecue, at the reconfigured Rattlestick.
This impeccably acted revival presents Kenneth Lonergan's poignant comic drama about dementia as a memory play in more ways than one.
The commitment-phobic bachelor Bobby becomes Bobbie in a new production in London.
How and why has that hunk of inhumanity been reanimated so often? Mel Brooks, Kenneth Branagh and others put the pieces together.
Manual Cinema's "Frankenstein" is a film-theater hybrid that fuses Mary Shelley's novel with her biography, emphasizing themes of desire, birth and loss.
