Ancient Tales for Modern Times
Three theatrical productions in Paris show that legends can still speak to audiences today.
Three theatrical productions in Paris show that legends can still speak to audiences today.
Jack O'Brien and Justin Peck's heartfelt, half-terrific revival of an American classic stars a wonderfully ambivalent Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller.
A mighty king demanding declarations of love faces villains you understand, in this Royal Shakespeare production at BAM.
The committee on eligibility also decided that Glenda Jackson stood tallest of "Three Tall Women."
"Equity is proposing two awards, one for the best ensemble - which it defined as the entire cast - in a musical or play, and one for the best chorus - which it defined as a group that sings …
"The author of eight volumes of poetry, Mr. McClatchy was considered one of the country's foremost men of letters. He was also a prolific editor, anthologist, translator and critic, as well …
The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
Ms. Snow was an actress and writer whose outspoken criticism was amplified by the legacy of her husband, the journalist Edgar Snow.
Casa Verdi is "a sumptuous neo-Gothic mansion built in central Milan by Verdi. Completed in 1899, the building was created as a sanctuary for musicians who found themselves poverty-stricken …
One director said "the canon is wide open" for this young British actor, who is onstage at BAM this month and at the Kennedy Center in May.
"The Waverly Gallery" will feature Michael Cera and Lucas Hedges along with Ms. May, who has not appeared on Broadway in more than 50 years.
First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
"Everybody onstage needs to be able to compete and receive recognition for their performance," said Mary McColl, executive director of Actors' Equity.
The best director category will now honor Peter Hall, who died in September, after he was omitted from a video montage at this year's ceremony.
"Alicia Graf Mack, an educator and former performer with Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will become the director of the dance division at Juilliard ... She w…
"The National Arts Stabilization Fund, a consortium of private and corporate philanthropies ... , grew out of her collaboration, beginning in the late 1950s, with a Ford vice president, W. M…
This movie, which opened 35 years ago, is more than a time capsule. It's a sci-fi spectacle with a "ferocious fashion sense."
In "Saint Joan," Condola Rashad tackles a classic role. But she's interested in the woman, not the symbol.
Greg Keller's two-character play encourages the audience to wonder: Just what's up with that guy nearby?
A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
"For the first time in 60 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has reached beyond its own doors for a new leader ... Max Hollein, 48, currently the director and chief executive of the Fine …
Julia F. Christensen, a neuroscientist at the The Warburg Institute at the University of London who studies people's responses to dance choreography, argued that many of us have been turned …
Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. Like the proverbial court j…
Says Martha Graham Dance Company artistic director Janet Eilber of Childs, "She is one of the people who truly went in the other direction of Martha Graham, and part of what we do now is inv…
This anarchic, unhinged 30-ish comedian with a demented weekly cable access show also pulls stunts for a podcast, including marrying a Tide bottle.