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Martyna Majok's intense drama will get a musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa, the Williamstown Theater Festival announced.
The experimental director and avant-garde choreographer's production " the first in the U.S. not to be based on Jerome Robbins's choreography " will come to Broadway.
A former dancer, Mr. Johnson collaborated with Mel Brooks on several movies and once asked him, "'Oh my God, are we allowed to show this?"
The death of the show's composer, Michael Friedman, makes this musical about loss an accidental and indispensable elegy.
The show based on slave songs closed in Montreal. But after a backlash, several theaters in Quebec are planning to stage it.
The first American production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in the language of the shtetl means training actors to hit the inflections, not just the notes.
With "Head Over Heels" in previews, we looked at how five Go-Go's songs evolved into musical-theater numbers.
This Swiss mime troupe's show "you & me" is like the Muppets, but heavily influenced by French surrealism and a few psychotropics.
"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" doesn't use elaborate special effects. Its magic comes from movement, and Steven Hoggett is its wizard choreographer.
Radiohead returns to Madison Square Garden, the Boston Symphony Orchestra heads to its summer home and Lucinda Child restages her minimalist opus.
Fiery performances by Lia Williams in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and Adrienne Warren in "Tina" newly illuminate familiar female characters.
Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.
The show was developed with high hopes by Nickelodeon, its lead producer, but when it closes in September it will have run for less than a year.
In the Berkshires, plays by Bekah Brunstetter and Douglas Carter Beane consider equality in the bakery and the rise of the "wonder homo."
Phia Ménard's work perplexes show programmers and audiences alike. Her latest production will have its premiere at the prestigious Avignon theater festival in France.
There have been complaints that "Fairview," currently at Soho Rep, goes too far and complaints that it doesn't go far enough.
What the stage director Lileana Blain-Cruz saw in New Orleans and how it informs her production of "The House That Will Not Stand."
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
A long aborning musical adaptation of the classic backstage comedy demotes a clan of highbrow actors to tacky vaudevillians.
From big-name musicals to challenging new work at small theaters, the Yanks are everywhere.
Global Creatures, a company founded by a wealthy Australian, is breaking into theater with high-profile, big budget productions, including "King Kong" on Broadway.
Crowd-drawing revivals of "Killer Joe" and "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" find two movie matinee idols transformed into mindless sociopaths.
Adam Rapp's new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
Frank Rich called Ms. Montevecchi "a glorious amalgam of music-hall feistiness and balletic grace, with Toulouse-Lautrec shadows about the eyes."
After a long and successful career as a ballerina, Ms. Lynne found greater fame creating dances for Andrew Lloyd Webber and others.
