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Britain's tortured withdrawal from the European Union is a common theme at the Edinburgh Fringe. Many comedians are trying to go beyond mockery.
Air-quality concerns have cost the theater festival about $2 million in ticket sales and led to cancellations of free outdoor performances.
For playwrights, productions that follow the premiere of their shows can be both exhilarating and frightening as others interpret their words.
The dark comedy by David Ireland is the winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award; the Traverse production will get $25,000 toward a New York run.
The latest show built around classic pop songs will run at the Imperial Theater starting next spring.
MarÃa Irene Fornés is being celebrated at MoMA and the Public Theater. Her colleagues and students reflect on her enduring legacy.
The 66-year-old actress, who stars in the Broadway musical "Gettin' the Band Back Together," remembers everything.
The Tony-winning actress will portray Eliza Doolittle in the hit musical revival.
The Ruhrtrienniale festival in Germany presents unpredictable works in postindustrial settings. But this year controversy has overshadowed the event.
A showman who helped put "The Sound of Music" on television, "Chicago" on movie screens and "How to Succeed in Business" back on Broadway.
South African-born, Mr. Murray went to Broadway by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In a busy career, he was nominated for three Tony Awards.
Ms. Harris got her start with the Second City and went on to win a Tony Award and to appear in films like "A Thousand Clowns" and "Nashville."
South African-born, Mr. Murray went to Broadway by way of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In a busy career he was nominated for three Tony Awards.
In this winning new musical, a 12-year-old girl is spurred to action by her far-flung imaginary friends.
An outdoor production that draws from the Hudson Valley community aims to unearths the strangeness in Washington Irving's classic story.
Amar Ramasar, Brittany Pollack and Craig Salstein get a chance to stretch on Broadway. With Justin Peck, they talk about the challenges and rewards.
Best known for a revelatory staging of "Morning's at Seven," he also directed Noël Coward in his final West End stage performance.
"Sakina's Restaurant," which originally ran in 1998, will play at the Minetta Lane Theater in October. A Patti Smith show is also in the new lineup.
A future-shock musical comedy about redhead rights could use a makeover.
A Broadway hoofer who went to Hollywood to tutor William Holden, Kim Novak, Ingrid Bergman, Jerry Lewis, Tuesday Weld and Jane Fonda, to name a few.
Mr. Glines was a producer who was committed to plays with gay themes and instrumental in bringing them into the mainstream.
Ben Brantley and his London counterpart Michael Billington find much that's enthralling about the state of playwriting in their countries.
This wan resuscitation of the 1990 movie about a Cinderella prostitute is likely to make you nostalgic for Julia Roberts's original performance.
The New York International Fringe Festival will be split into two, with one slate in Manhattan and a "bring your own venue" slate in the other boroughs.
There are hundreds of shows to see in the Edinburgh International Festival and its ancillary Fringe event. But finding the good ones can be hard work.
