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Theaters across the country have signed on to an initiative that makes unsold tickets available to student and professional writers.
The play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together.
Her new play, "Notes From the Field," looks at crime, education and the Baltimore she left behind.
The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher.
Chris Gethard's solo show grapples with his uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to depression.
You know that Pedro Reyes's political house of horrors in the Brooklyn Army Terminal is theater, but some acts make your pulse jump and disarm your defenses.
A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Pedro Reyes's "Doomocracy" is a mobile drama with rapid pacing, where visitors encounter a variety of fright-inducing short acts.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are to star in the musical, which is to start previews on March 7 at the Nederlander Theater.
He was best known for the "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and his one-man show "Mistero Buffo" ("Comic Mystery"), and he was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, helped create "Hamilton." But alongside professional triumph came personal tragedy.
In Leegrid Stevens's play, a dead, zombielike father plays on as his squabbling family surveys its present and re-enacts its past against a video-game background.
The singer explores the options of a woman who suddenly finds her nest empty in "After the Ball" at Café Carlyle.
The "High School Musical" star straps on his tap shoes for "Holiday Inn," a new musical take on the 1942 film.
Rowan Blanchard takes to Instagram and Twitter to help her overcome the child Disney star stereotype. And it seems to be working.
The Broadway musical and the man it's about are the subject of a "Great Performances" documentary.
"Letters to a Man" looks at Vaslav Nijinsky in a performance piece from Robert Wilson.
This play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers.
Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who starred in the original Broadway cast, team up to pay tribute to musical theater's relationship with modern pop.
"My Name Is Gideon," a production by All for One Theater that was canceled with the abrupt closure of Soho Rep's theater, is back on.
Five years of preparation, water with electrolyte drops, green tea and vitamin B shots helped this performance artist get through a 24-hour show.
Chris Gethard's new show, "Career Suicide," which explores his anxiety as well as his public missteps, might seem like an odd choice for comedy.
An exclusive video featuring a number from the new musical by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes and Erin McKeown, opening this month at the La Jolla Playhouse.
This stupendously entertaining play centers on the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have created geriatric alter egos as roommates.
I've slept on it, and I'm sure. 'A 24-Decade History of Popular Music' is sublime.
