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In the Irish Repertory Theater's solid revival of Conor McPherson's Christmas classic, the Devil sits down for Yuletide wassail and a game of cards.
Two teenage sisters share a life where the extraordinary can be ordinary in this play directed by Alex Howarth.
Joe Penhall's new play, "Mood Music," has real-world echoes in its story of a battle between a young singer-songwriter and her record producer.
Florida students began rehearsing "Spring Awakening" before the Feb. 14 shooting at their high school. They wanted to keep going. The show's original cast came to support them.
Producers said the symbols were crucial to a performance highlighting the dangers of fascism. But the opening-night offer has prompted complaints to the police.
Matatu are the privately owned buses that have transported at least 60 percent of Nairobi's population since the early '60s. The word matatu comes from the Kikuyu word for "three," referring…
"In the West, our idea of monastic ritual involves prayer and quiet reflection. But there are monasteries in Assam, in the far reaches of northeastern India, where prayer has always been, an…
The two, who recently made their own Broadway debuts, will host the ceremony on June 10; much of it will be broadcast on CBS.
Amelia Roper's portrait of disparate " and desperate " lives in a Swiss hotel becomes an indictment of moral blight in the 21st century.
The teen drama's musical episode, which airs Wednesday, is part of a tradition of television shows dipping into musical theater.
New research suggests the roots of friendship extend even deeper than previously suspected. Scientists have found that the brains of close friends respond in remarkably similar ways as they …
This "Lysistrata" update at the Flea Theater is consistently lively, but its comic aims are scattershot.
The new team chose two of the six premieres City Ballet will present in the 2018-19 season, reaching beyond the traditional ballet world to commission works by Kyle Abraham and Emma Portner.…
Here's how a dispenser works: It is shaped like a cylinder with three buttons on top indicating a "one minute," "three minute" or "five minute" story. (That's how long it takes to read.) Whe…
"[Tracy K.] Smith, the fifth African-American to hold the title, has put an unexpected spin on it. She is taking poetry on the road around the nation, focusing primarily on rural areas where…
The Margravial Opera House, built in 1478 by Frederick the Great's sister and now one of the best-preserved 18th-century theaters in Europe, is reopening after a six-year, €30 million …
Responding to the suit filed last month by Tonja Carter, Lee's attorney and executor, arguing that Aaron Sorkin's script deviates too much from the novel, a $10 million countersuit filed Mon…
"Mr. Ehle, who had been married to the British actress Rosemary Harris since 1967, wrote radio dramas, biographies, a nonfiction account of student civil rights protests at Chapel Hill, a hi…
"More than 60 presenting organizations and dance companies from around the world are expected to participate, and the Royal Ballet in London will be one of several to tackle Cunningham for t…
Yes, there's even a name for this phenomenon. "In recent years, so-called Anglocreep, the subtle adoption of British phrases into everyday American speech, has become a tic (or some might sa…
The disagreement over the characterization of Atticus Finch expands to a second lawsuit between the producers and the Lee estate.
Nora Bayes, one of the brightest stars of early Broadway and vaudeville, has lain for decades in an unmarked grave in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
Various studies point to the conclusion that subjecting the mind to formal discipline " as when studying geometry or Latin " does not, in general, engender a broad transfer of learning. Ther…
The disorienting and thoroughly unsatisfying Cambridge Analytica saga is a preview of what trailing indicators of the collapse of the data boom might look like: revealing signs, evident year…
From Broadway to downtown experimental shows, the city's theater ruled supreme. Here are some of its alumni, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Willem Dafoe, Cynthia Nixon and more.
