Heads Up: Chicago Theaters Cultivate Night Life Offstage
The city's strong theater community is increasingly keeping its audiences fed and watered in-house.
The city's strong theater community is increasingly keeping its audiences fed and watered in-house.
This musical about a demonic barber could be more penetrating, but still respects the original story's depiction of madness.
Mr. Lipton teams up with Leigh Silverman to bring "The Outer Space" to Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
After an 11-year absence, garnering Oscar nods and leading protests, Mr. Ruffalo returns to Broadway in Arthur Miller's least-produced play.
Brian Doerries, the director of Theater of War, will use classic texts to explore violence, trauma and community at free events at 60 locations around the city
March brings a set of rivalrous blue-collar workers, a resentful stoker on an ocean liner and, oh yes, one very angry barber.
Through his stripped-down, radically humane approach to theater, Sam Gold has found a new dimension of a classic American play.
Contemporary womanhood has its challenges, and this play explores many of them, like sexual harassment, eating disorders, Ophelia complexes and more.
The Theater for a New Audience's revival of Thornton Wilder's apocalyptic comedy feels surprisingly appropriate for a world threatened by climate issues and packed with refugees.
Ken Urban's play blends many genres, including science fiction, sex farce and musical, in this Amoralists production about growing up in New Jersey.
The distributor A24 hopes the Academy Awards will provide a box-office bump for a gay-themed film that has not drawn mainstream moviegoers so far.
Amid a theater boom, bars in Hell's Kitchen and elsewhere are hosting colorful events with singalongs, drop-ins and drag queens doing musical numbers.
A former newspaper plant in Ithaca, N.Y., is now a 24-hour practice space whose founder considers stunts not only an art form but also "a life tool."
"Dead Darlings," a monthly gathering in Greenwich Village brings together writers and artists to share what ended up on the cutting-room floor.
In an unusual joint statement, 11 arts groups called on the government to protect arts funding.
Ms. Ruhl's latest play, "For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday," will open the season.
An overlay of defeat hobbles this play about a psychiatrist who refuses to testify on behalf of a patient accused of a crime.
There are echoes of Samuel Beckett in this short, resonant tragicomedy, written by Will Eno and featuring Michael Emerson.
An honorably discharged private is at the center of this morality play inspired by Dante's "The Divine Comedy."
Mr. Miranda, nominated in the best original song category for "How Far I'll Go" from "Moana," had the chance to fill in his missing Oscar.
Three New York Times critics share their reactions to the wrong best picture being announced at the awards show.
The musicals "Assassins," "The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin" and "Really Rosie" will be performed during the Encores! Off-Center season.
"What is happening?" movie fans asked after the wrong Oscar winner was announced. Here's a transcript of what happened onstage.
Damien Chazelle said his film was about love.
"La La Land" was announced as the winner of the best picture Oscar, but then something bewildering happened.