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A rising star in musical theater, Shaina Taub is a fiercely political singer-songwriter who is writing the lyrics for her first Broadway show, with Elton John.
Ian McKellen shines as King Lear in a new production of Shakespeare's play, and Rhys Ifans also plays a beleaguered monarch in Ionesco's "Exit the King."
This confused musical combines 1980s pop hits with a Renaissance romance, while considering the importance of being nonbinary.
Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould's exciting new musical dares to dream big as it follows the making of the artist Tamara de Lempicka in Jazz-Age Paris.
The 1972 Broadway musical, closing the Encores! Off-Center season, sketches the history of the resilience of black Americans in song and dance.
The filmmaker started the Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan in 2005. He also was the force behind the renovation of two theaters in Traverse, a town he wants people to discover.
Playing in repertory at the Stratford Festival in Canada, these mirror-image musicals turn out to be part of the same conversation.
The lineup of the festival's 75th edition also includes premieres from Paul Greengrass, Orson Welles and Alfonso Cuarón.
Reba McEntire, Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter will also be honored at the Kennedy Center ceremony, which Mr. Trump skipped last year after some winners expressed discomfort with him.
This tone-deaf rock-opera remembrance of the twilight of Studio 54 features characters named Steve Rubell and The Artist. (Psst! That's Andy Warhol.)
This soul-infused interpretation of Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus" will return to New York for the first time since 2004.
Kristina Newman-Scott, director of culture for the State of Connecticut, is to join BRIC as its president in September.
In Young Jean Lee's smart, thorny play, two brothers (Armie Hammer and Josh Charles) urge a third (Paul Schneider) to own his male prerogatives.
The season " with work by Melanie Maar, Miguel Gutierrez and Niall Jones " is focused on creative process, ahead of a move to a new facility in 2020.
But, racing through 40 classic Leiber and Stoller songs in 90 intermission-less minutes, the show only occasionally slows down enough to breathe.
A show set inside a smartphone is silly, yet surprisingly resonant with contemporary politics.
James Corden and Ian McKellen will also be a part of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, directed by Tom Hooper.
Ms. James talks about sharing the screen with Meryl Streep and Cher in "Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again," and why the World Cup is greater art than the theater.
The creators of "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" took their bighearted revue all the way to Broadway. A concert production will show how it plays today.
The Weeknd headlines the New York festival, "Far From the Tree" comes to screens and the high school musical debuts on Off Broadway.
The force behind "Hamilton" and "In the Heights" will bring his vision to the big screen for the first time with an adaptation of a musical by the "Rent" creator Jonathan Larson.
Despite regularly selling out U.C.B. theaters, the series founder says success would mean such a diverse comedy scene that the show wasn't needed.
An hour north of New York City, a new production of Shakespeare's impossible comedy finds a sensible way to respond to the #MeToo moment.
Despite some eye-catching dramatics, the paucity of female directors and protagonists at the most important event in the French theater calendar sticks out.
Mr. Beach's many Broadway roles also included Lumière, the genial candelabra, in the original cast of "Beauty and the Beast."
