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What worked " and didn't " for Disney's coming Broadway show.
New plays are portraying and exploring opioid addiction, using the theater industry's response to the AIDS epidemic as a model.
A confident 50-ish New Yorker plunges into the world of online dating and finds cringe-inducing photos, timeless truisms and biological complications.
The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene show is at once a rapid-fire revue and a textbook chronology of Jewish history in New York.
The Public Theater unexpectedly canceled the rest of its Saturday matinee performances of "Hamlet," citing the toll of the show on its actors.
An Encores! Off-Center production of this 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King shows how far the story has strayed from the dour books it is based on.
If you knew what your life would hold, would you try to change it? And could you succeed? Bruce Norris's new play answers, "Maybe" and "Not much."
Hal Prince, who helped bring "Cabaret," "Evita" and "Sweeney Todd" to Broadway, talks with Jason Robert Brown about the musical revue "Prince of Broadway."
On London stages: A new look at the rise of a media mogul, and two anniversary revivals that explore a nation tilting between hedonism and despair.
Political plays by Suzan-Lori Parks and Michael Moore, Harold Prince's hit anthology and New York premieres from Simon Stephens and Bruce Norris.
Three one-act plays at 59E59 Theaters demonstrate the beauty, power and humor in small things.
Tickets for the three-week run in London, a fund-raiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, are only available through a ballot system.
The museum has announced the fall season for its series Works & Process, which provides insights into the creation of music, dance and theater.
Alex Lacamoire, Cote de Pablo and Tarell Alvin McCraney on auditioning, passion and the value of college.
Don't look for politicians in the Public Theater's second Central Park production this season " or real tears. Be glad for the comedy.
Sam Shepard, the celebrated playwright and Oscar-nominated actor, died on July 27 at his home in Kentucky. He was 73.
A program of 10 short pieces, set in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, touches on tennis, dragon boats and the 1939 World's Fair.
The Broadway musical has been in a bit of a box office slump since Josh Groban left. Now its producers are trying to rebound.
How the playwright and actor kept his cool, from the days of flower power to the age of social media.
The theater company will present world premieres by Aleshea Harris and Jackie Sibblies Drury.
Excerpts from reviews of theater, book and film works by Mr. Shepard, who is dead at age 73.
Mr. Shepard, one of the most important and influential early writers in the Off Broadway movement, specialized in capturing the darker sides of American family life.
This play toggles between a seaside family in crisis and a 10-year-old girl's dreams of a nautical adventure with her grandfather.
At the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
"Bat Out of Hell" does justice to the Meat Loaf songs that make up its score. "The Wind in the Willows" and "Yank! A World War II Love Story" pale beside it.
