How to Master an Accent
Listen as the actress Sarah Jones offers tips to help you sound like someone else.
Listen as the actress Sarah Jones offers tips to help you sound like someone else.
Wherever we fall on the political spectrum, we're going to see our desires and fears reflected in the art we encounter, especially in theater.
Attending the theater before 1850 or so in the United States was far more akin to attending a football game today than to attending contemporary theater.
In this production, the audience will join the performers in eating a turn-of-the-century feast.
The first season at the armory programmed by its new artistic director, Pierre Audi, also includes works by Ai Weiwei and Pierre Boulez.
At the Vineyard Theater, Nicky Silver shows a pair of newlyweds, their damaged gay son almost a half-century later and growing empathy for mothers.
Gideon Irving, who has performed in hundreds of homes in six countries, brings his one-man show of songs, jokes and surprises to Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
This Hansol Jung play, set from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, centers on a woman with an urn of her father's ashes and includes Jesus in disguise.
In a new version of William Burke's play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, Elmo hates the Naked Cowboy, and the Cookie Monster has a box cutter.
Sutton Foster's Charity is vaguely aware that becoming a doormat for men was a bad career choice in this revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
This deft revival of a Mike Leigh play, set at a drunken suburban soiree, lays bare the disappointment behind seemingly self-satisfied guests.
In delivering his plea to Mike Pence after the show, the Broadway actor Brandon Victor Dixon was also speaking to Donald J. Trump, meeting directness with directness.
Donald Trump took to Twitter to demand an apology from the cast of "Hamilton," which directly addressed Vice President-elect Mike Pence after a performance on Friday.
With the vice president-elect attending the show, the cast used the opportunity to make a statement emphasizing the need for the new presidential administration to work on behalf of all Amer…
After contentious contract talks, the Actors' Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League have reached an agreement to raise pay for actors and stage managers.
In "A Taste of Things to Come," a breezy musical at York Theater Company, four friends navigate the 1950s, the 1960s and the inevitability of change.
This whimsical dance-theater work from Phantom Limb, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is part of a trilogy focused on "environmental concerns."
The 2016 "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" has put the Music Hall dance troupe's name in the title with good reason.
Stripped of its cinematic distractions, this Off Broadway adaptation directed by John Doyle comes across as blunt and bland.
A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
"Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened," a documentary by Lonny Price, examines the buildup and collapse of "Merrily We Roll Along" in 1981.
At 59E59 Theaters, a stage version of the novel and its Oscar-winning 1980s movie version includes most of the film's memorable moments and more sexual frankness.
"Dragging the terrible thing into the light can strip it of its potency."
Peter Shaffer's play about the relationship between Mozart and his rival gains a few tweaks at the National Theater.
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