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The director Annie Ryan turns up the volume in her production of the John Webster gore-fest from 1612. Two contemporary plays seem tepid.
"Beardo," the musical, is a louche, lewd and assertively weird fantasia on the life of Rasputin, now at St. John's Lutheran Church in Brooklyn.
The movie won the British film awards for best picture; best cinematography; best music; best actress, for Emma Stone; and best director, for Damien Chazelle.
It will feature works by the emerging playwright Jen Silverman; its 2016 playwright-in-residence, Harrison David Rivers; Jason Kim; and others.
Serving 32 years as its president and executive producer, Mr. Lichtenstein reorganized BAM, and gave it a renewed purpose as a center for the performing arts.
As "Hamilton" heads to London and "Harry Potter" comes to New York, the two plays are experimenting with measures to limit reselling of their tickets.
Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and the Wooster Group recreate a firestorm of a panel discussion in the timely and time-bending piece.
The "New York Spectacular" has been postponed until 2018, according to the company that manages the troupe.
Geoff Sobelle's solo performance, "The Object Lesson," at New York Theater Workshop, invites the audience to explore the sprawling set before the show begins.
This Geoff Sobelle play, in a space packed with boxes that are explored by Mr. Sobelle and the audience, has reopened at New York Theater Workshop.
The pared-down revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical relies more on Glenn Close's astounding performance than the original lavish production could.
The siblings in James Lecesne's new play, directed by Tony Speciale, continue to disagree about some rather important aspects of their upbringing.
At City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.
The Public Theater's synopsis of the play, part of Shakespeare in the Park, makes clear that it would have some parallels with contemporary politics.
Mrs. Gelb wrote several books, the best known being a weighty biography of Eugene O'Neill on which she collaborated with her husband.
This August Wilson show takes place in 1977 in the city's Hill District. Among the highlights: Pirates memorabilia, Iron City beer and classic cars.
This two-character play by Tanya Saracho centers on a Mexican-born woman who comes to Los Angeles to work in TV, and an American-born man who identifies as Mexican.
The composer-lyricist will be the first musical artist to receive the award.
This musical drama, opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Feb. 15, is a production of the Young Vic and the South African Isango Ensemble.
The Griffith Observatory, Pasadena and palm trees " the writer and director of "La La Land" talks about why he loves L.A.
In a half-century career that spanned film, TV and theater, Mr. McCowen's greatest triumphs were on the stage. But movie audiences knew him as well.
Efforts to add stalls gain speed as the theater industry awakens to the frustration women face at intermission and to a growing expectation of comfort.
In "Georgie: My Adventures With George Rose," Ed Dixon recalls the actor's triumphs in the theater as well as his violent demise.
Mr. Corey inhabited many characters but was best known for his alter ego, a zany "professor," and for his left-wing politics.
A new woman in town is really the Greek god Dionysus incarnated as a gardener with a mission in this eco-play at Two River Theater in New Jersey.
