Overlooked No More: Margarita Xirgu, Theater Radical Who Staged Lorca's Plays
The Spanish film star and theater director was known for taking chances in her politics, her private life and on the stage.
The Spanish film star and theater director was known for taking chances in her politics, her private life and on the stage.
His dark works avoided the stereotype of a rural Irish utopia, instead exploring subjects like the county's famine and its history of emigration.
The play, based on an Isaac Bashevis Singer story, was a tale of empowerment in the midst of feminism's second wave.
Find the character in the words on the page, he instructed Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Rachel Weisz and others.
A Brooklyn theater company is staging the Arthur Miller play on the waterfront of working-class Red Hook.
The performing arts center plans to assemble some of the world's top ballet companies and performers for its ambitious 2018-19 season.
The stage version of "Jagged Little Pill" sets a story steeped in hot-button issues like opiate addition and gender identity to the singer's raw 1995 album.
The first act will depict Ms. Steinem's life and career; the second will be a "talking circle" for the audience.
England's hardest-working actress finally gets her star moment in America, playing Mary Tyrone in "Long Day's Journey Into Night."
Kieran Knowles's gripping play about the Sheffield Blitz, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, focuses on the interdependent lives of four steel workers.
What does tap mean in musicals these days? It's often used as a sparkly outfit " a symbol of Broadway's past, danced by nostalgists and drama nerds.
In Dominique Morisseau's new play, Detroit's mayor wants to clear "urban blight," but some black jazzmen say, "We the blight he talkin' about."
The British farce, which will have its final performance at the Lyceum Theater on Aug. 26, will then go on to tour.
The Acting Company's production, which runs through May 27 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, nods to violence and hits the play's grimmer notes.
The new adaptation of the classic 1959 film comedy will be directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw with a score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
In this highly adrenalized production of Eugene O'Neill's harrowing family portrait, everybody seems to be acting as fast as possible.
The director delivers more than just a "filmed play" in this movie, now on Amazon Video, that was adapted from Antoinette Nwandu's street-corner drama.
Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" refracts gay American life through an English novel, while two new British plays choose a shorter, satirical path.
The Broadway debut of the deaf actress in "Children of a Lesser God" has brought her accolades. But she's not sure what to make of it all.
How the 'SpongeBob' costume designer used found objects " and yes, sequins " to dress an eye-popping array of singing, dancing sea creatures.
Philip Dawkins's play blends realism and campy melodrama as it envisions the fumbling beginnings of an affair between Williams and William Inge
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
A legal battle had been waged over whether a stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird" strayed too far from Harper Lee's novel. On Thursday, the suits were settled.
A 2018 look at the 1986 Broadway version of a 1937 musical leaves some things blurry and others all too clear.
The Arts Innovation and Management Program will invest $43 million in Atlanta; Austin, Tex.; Baltimore; Denver; New Orleans; Pittsburgh; and Washington.