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Meet eccentric New York personalities through the HBO series "High Maintenance." And catch the teenage comedy "Mean Girls" before it leaves Netflix.
An award-winning playwright argues that the in-the-moment interplay between actors and audience can help us cope with an increasingly virtual world.
These images, some of the best we took in 2017, capture the power of the artists and performers we covered " and offer plenty of beauty on their own.
How the monologuist inspired a best-selling paint. A dog is also involved.
There are still goosebump-worthy moments in this Tony-winning Four Seasons bio-musical, but the show feels rushed and formulaic in a smaller theater.
In a New York Times Acting Class video, "[the actor] explains how he becomes 19 characters in David Cale's play Harry Clarke, which follows a shy Midwesterner as he reinvents himself as a Co…
The 32 plays and musicals currently on Broadway brought in $35,796,213 between Dec. 18 and Dec. 24, almost $5 million more than last year.
The West End transfer of the hit Broadway play shows that new work can make a splash in a city that usually favors the classics.
The dancer Robert Fairchild's creature has a delicate, disarming beauty in Ensemble for the Romantic Century's ambitious but awkward production.
Users can go to the movies once a day for $9.95 a month. While multiplexes doubt that's sustainable, the chief executive, who slashed the price, says, "We seem to have hit a nerve in America…
The "Empire" actor and Broadway star visited his former dance studio. But he never broke a sweat.
When our president can't confront artists who criticize him, where does that leave us?
Lyricist Sheldon Harnick and director Jerry Saks will consult on the New York production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. And, evidently, the author of the original Yiddish-langua…
Her new play "P____ Sludge," which won the 2017 Relentless Award, tells the story of a woman who menstruates crude oil.
The adaptation of "Fiddler" will debut next summer, with the lyricist Sheldon Harnick consulting on the production.
Not too long ago, Robert Fairchild played a young god " Apollo " at New York City Ballet. Now, just two months after retiring from the company to try his luck in musical theater, he finds hi…
Billy Crudup explains how he becomes 19 characters in David Cale's play "Harry Clarke," which follows a shy Midwesterner as he reinvents himself as a Cockney Englishman.
If you missed the preholiday rush, fret not. There is still time for festive theater.
All our critic wanted was to stop judging and share a holiday show with her daughter. But her pint-size companion had other ideas.
Lucy Kirkwood, playwright of The Children (now playing on Broadway), says she was trying for a long time to figure out how to write plays about climate change. "Then the events of Fukushima …
In acclaimed works like "The Children," now on Broadway, the British writer argues for collective responsibility in the face of environmental and other challenges.
Artists who died this year left behind gripping scenes, profound turns of phrase, unforgettable melodies and plenty of laughter. We pay tribute to a few of the most notable " through their o…
Yasmina Reza wrote "Bella Figura" for the Schaubühne in Berlin, and the Moscow Art Theater commissioned Pascal Rambert's "Actrice." The two authors are now directing their works on Paris st…
At Lincoln Center, Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald sang and Frank Langella told of tense moments during a dinner party at Barbara Walters's apartment.
The blink-and-you-might-have-missed-them cultural moments that brightened up a year otherwise defined by turmoil and tragedy.
