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Grants will provide closed captioning of spoken words, or audio description of action, on mobile devices, in a way that is not distracting to other patrons.
Grants will provide closed captioning of spoken words, or audio description of action, on mobile devices, in a way that is not distracting to other patrons.
The British playwright Leo Butler believes that taking acid can have beneficial effects. His new play explores how he thinks it can help.
It took persuading, but Jez Butterworth wrote his new play for his partner, Laura Donnelly, both to honor her history and give her a great part.
In a turnabout no one expected, New York's most prominent stages are rich with drama, most of it new and most of it American.
Americans are paying to scare themselves witless, and not just on Halloween.
Armed with money for a theater (which doesn't exist) to save his town, a mayor tries his hand at playwriting in this two-actor, multicharacter comedy.
"Dionysos Stadt" is a 10-hour epic inspired by the Greek classics that traces the arc of human drama. It's just one of many new productions on Munich's stages.
The Apollo Theater celebrates 50 years after "Say It Loud " I'm Black and I'm Proud."
Three eras, three plays drawn from real life. But the same old double standard.
Mr. Diggs talks about his new CW series, "All American"; football and Colin Kaepernick; and a nagging question about identity.
Condescend at your own risk to Sophia Anne Caruso, the go-to girl for adventurous stage roles. "Even from a young age," she says, "I had very finicky taste."
The actress, who stars in the Broadway revival of "Torch Song," is an acting teacher and mentor.
Ms. Hall was a moderately successful songwriter until she and two collaborators came up with one of the biggest Broadway hits of the 1970s.
William Jackson Harper's polished debut as a playwright, set in 1964, pits patient negotiation against disruptive activism.
David Greenspan's tone poem of a play, at the Bushwick Starr, considers time, death, family and the ways in which we recall our dead.
Mr. Mandvi, who spent nearly 10 years as a correspondent on "The Daily Show," brings back his solo comedy act. It returns with new resonance.
This strident satire from the filmmaker behind "Happiness" and "Wiener-Dog" is perfectly staged " and all too obvious.
A folk concert provides the scaffolding for this stealthily moving sci-fi musical.
Donja R. Love's fantasia on the married life of a great civil rights orator suggests the price paid by the woman who gives him his voice.
Can a drama about the nature of consciousness be emotional, too? For its latest production, he's tinkered with the script to firmly answer yes.
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The relationship between Ally and Jackson echoes the original and other remakes, while modernizing their dynamic for current sensibilities.