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The opioid epidemic is reshaping life in America, including at the local public library, where librarians are considering whether to carry naloxone to battle overdoses. At a time when the pu…
"As a principal dancer with City Ballet in the late 1970s and '80s, Mr. Lavery was described as a workhorse and, in his best performances, a wonder." In 1986, aged only 30, he developed a sp…
A grand return for Tony Kushner's "Angels," a raw reworking of "Yerma" and a South African docudrama about bringing down a statue " all this and Glenda Jackson, too!
Three plays in Munich and Berlin explore revolutionary ideas and utopian dreams.
Broadway theatergoers, inspired by the acts of kindness portrayed in the musical 'Come From Away,' are booking trips to a small town on the island of Newfoundland.
Joël Pommerat's visually abstract, sonically sophisticated adaptation will be performed this weekend as part of the three-week Tilt Kids Festival.
Bruce Norris, the Pulitzer-winning playwright, brings "The Low Road," a Colonial-era free market spoof inspired by the financial crash, to the Public Theater.
Reporter Alexis Soloski meets Lauren Ambrose, whom Sher cast (over many more famous performers) as Eliza Doolittle in the upcoming Broadway My Fair Lady - and who, quite deliberately, "has a…
"The will, signed on February 11, 2016, eight days before her death, directed that the bulk of her assets, including her literary properties, be transferred into a trust she formed in 2011. …
Experimental dancemakers "often imply that the process, not the product, is the most valuable part of their work - at least to them. Performances, by these lights, are more like peepholes. I…
In Jordan Harrison's wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death " and the critics.
"I wanted her to understand what muscle groups were involved, and how most people walking on the street are internally rotated with their shoulders " their palms are facing back. With ballet…
"In the summer of 2016, Curtis Dawkins, a felon who is serving a life sentence in Michigan for murdering a man during a botched robbery, got some unexpected good news. Scribner, one of the t…
Darian Dauchan's one-android performance piece uses rap, dance and colored lights to find "the connection between species."
She made her name on the TV drama "Six Feet Under." But her last musical? That was "Oklahoma!" " in high school. Now she's playing Eliza Doolittle in "My Fair Lady."
Hammaad Chaudry's first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
A third-generation real estate owner and manager, he was instrumental in a public-private partnership in Queens that spurred filmmaking in New York.
Three plays about contemporary America will be staged during the 2018-19 season, including a double bill of Samuel D. Hunter's "Lewiston" and "Clarkston."
The university announced it will provide scholarships in order to promote diversity in its theater program.
"Sound House" and "This Is the Color Described by the Time" explore a sense that too often falls by the wayside onstage " sound.
JC Lee's undercooked play casts the formidable Jayne Houdyshell as an eminent professor swimming in the shark pool of academia.
The actor, favored to win an Oscar for "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," also responds to critics of his racist-cop character.
Mr. McKay filmed the reminiscences of dozens of theater luminaries for the 2004 documentary "Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There."
Ms. Fabray won a Tony for a performance on Broadway in the 1940s and three Emmys for her work with Sid Caesar in the 1950s.
Adaptations of Broadway musicals to be performed by middle and high school students are becoming an increasingly important revenue stream for theater producers.
