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How a theater troupe called Improbable dramatizes psychological experiments described in a controversial 2004 book.
In just under 10 years, Cole Escola, who is 30 but looks much younger, has become a ubiquitous presence on the downtown alt-cabaret circuit.
Cirque du Soleil, known for its acrobatic acts, announced that it had purchased Blue Man Productions with an eye toward expanding it to China.
Mr. Isaac's film career is thriving. But this summer, he is starring as Shakespeare's tortured prince.
Outraged at conformity and drawn to theatricality, Mr. Williams aimed to effect change with language.
Two outstanding performances in a "Children of a Lesser God" revival are a Berkshires highlight.
More than 60 artists, including the Pulitzer winner Annie Baker and the actress Greta Gerwig, asked that the play "To the End of the Land" be canceled.
The theater company hopes to discover whether audiences are similarly affected at live plays versus cinema screenings.
Ms. Metcalf, who won a Tony Award for her performance in the play on Broadway, will depart on July 23 and be replaced by the Tony winner Julie White.
Adventurous works like a Sherlock Holmes musical and an examination of the Berlin Wall scored by a member of Air Supply are on the schedule.
Today's Birthdays: Playwright Neil Simon is 90. Country singer Ray Pillow is 80. Singer Bill Withers is 79.
Instructions to destroy any incomplete manuscripts were included in a will that the renowned playwright filed on Long Island, where he lived and died.
In Paul Kruse's one-act play at Jack in Brooklyn, the humans have their problems, and the chickens have their own issues.
The director discusses a sequence from his film, currently in theaters and available on Netflix.
Why can't you buy a Wonka Bar at the hit Broadway musical "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"? Blame corporate indifference " and a mistaken flirtation with crème brûlée.
Why aren't there more American productions of Canadian plays? Judging from a Toronto theater company's offerings, the quality of the work isn't the obstacle.
It's politics as unusual on stages across the city in July.
He grew up watching Michael Jackson videos in Athens, Tex. Now J. Quinton Johnson is rapping in Broadway's hottest production, asked to audition before he'd seen it.
The city's 32 boroughs are being asked to compete for the designation of Borough of Culture, which will come with a $1.3 million grant.
James Graham's play focuses on Mr. Murdoch as a news baron in the making; and "Anatomy of a Suicide" is a shimmeringly powerful puzzle play.
This cabaret at the Triad offers broad sendups of President Trump for the two-drink-minimum crowd, but it's hard to be farcical when real life is so bizarre.
Scott McPherson's 1991 Off Broadway hit about duty to self and to others makes its Broadway debut in a very different world.
Recommendations for other outdoor performances, scheduled around the holiday and beyond, suggested by reporters and critics of The New York Times.
Fresh off the success of her adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense & Sensibility," Kate Hamill takes on "Pride & Prejudice."
In Lauren Yee's play, the disappearance of a child short-circuits language and takes over reality itself. But it can be survived.
