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Ms. Maxwell, who has died at 61, transmitted an uncommon intelligence and love of craft found only in great theater performers.
Ms. Maxwell, a longtime favorite of critics, earned five Tony Award nominations in seven years, including two in one season.
A Morgan Library & Museum exhibition of the playwright's letters and manuscripts showcases the hungers that drove and derailed him.
In this play directed by Thomas Ostermeier and starring Nina Hoss, a French philosopher ponders the move to the right in blue-collar France.
Jordan Roth, whose Jujamcyn Theatres owns five of Broadway's 41 theatres, and "who has had a longtime interest in performing and has dabbled in video production previously, conceived of this…
Via Facebook, the students received pictures of themselves with swastikas plastered on their faces. One parent had what was thought to be her home address (it wasn't) posted online with a co…
Written by Jez Butterworth and directed by Sam Mendes, the work centers on a family unraveling and evokes state-of-a-nation themes.
Roslyn Ruff and Jeff Hiller bring new dimensions to plays about Betty Shabazz and a chatty wedding guest.
A couple in Pakistan are always "listening to the sky," while an American captain becomes too invested in their lives.
The Roth family dynamic: The father does business with Donald Trump, and the son makes fun of him in an explicit video series.
The Encores! series pulls some oddities out of the American musical trunk and comes up with … an oddity.
After Ithaca High School canceled its production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" because of students' pushback, an online mob targeted the town.
What do the noble mastiff, the lowly cur and the trundle-tail have in common besides being terms for dogs?
Mr. Buffett, who has a new Broadway show, "Escape to Margaritaville," built a half-billion-dollar empire on his laid-back beach brand. But he's all business now.
Lesley Manville makes Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" her own, and Nicholas Hytner delivers an electric, politically urgent "Julius Caesar."
David Binder, who also has experience producing festivals in New York and London, will succeed Joseph V. Melillo.
In a new one-woman show, the author of "The Vagina Monologues" connects global violence and her own life-threatening illness.
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, executive producers of "Game of Thrones," will write and produce a series of "Star Wars" films for Disney.
Up for an Oscar for playing J. Paul Getty, a part that initially went to Mr. Spacey, Mr. Plummer recalls thinking: "To hell with it, I'm doing it."
Mr. Mahoney was born in England, but he came to embody all-American grass-roots fatherhood on TV. He also appeared on Broadway and won a Tony Award.
Beyond 'Frasier'
Scared to be bused to a predominantly white school in New Orleans, the actor was given some empowering advice from his father.
"The theater was so small, it was named the Little Theater. That was 106 years ago, and since then it has been reincarnated many times - renamed, repurposed, rehabilitated. Now known as the …
This London import shows the director and writer of "Three Billboards" still utterly at home in the (dark) shadows of the stage.
Matthew Broderick, Mary-Louise Parker and Tavi Gevinson will appear this summer in plays by Douglas Carter Beane, Adam Rapp and Carson McCullers.
