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Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk reflect on their decades of making daring theater together. Just don't call it a nostalgic exercise.
On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.
The London-based actress has been heralded as one of the most talented of her generation. Still, she worried audiences would balk at her "very unconventional Blanche."
Descendants of characters in "Operation Mincemeat," a hit British musical now in New York, have gotten more out of seeing it than a few catchy melodies.
"Good Night, and Good Luck" grossed $3.3 million last week, breaking a record that was set earlier this month by Denzel Washington's "Othello."
Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.
In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.
Tickets for the hottest Broadway plays are now out of reach for many.
For centuries, clowns have mostly been men. A new group of talent is changing that.
Five decades into her career, the Tony Award-winning actress and TV icon, making her Broadway directing debut, feels like "part of something bigger."
Jenifer Ringer, the celebrated New York City Ballet principal, is back at the School of American Ballet in a new role: teacher and guiding light.
Shakespeare's leanest tragedy gets a starry, headlong production that embraces the action but misses the mystery.
The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney's live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?
America's oldest performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural institut…
Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's pioneering "Love Life" was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.
A British satirical comedy, a Tennessee Williams classic, a soundscape of Havana: These are productions worth knowing about.
A proudly silly British musical comedy about the "Trojan corpse" of World War II comes to Broadway.
The new live-action version of Disney's 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.
A new musical inspired by the 1997 hit album gives a fictional back story to the veteran performers of the Havana music scene.
Joshua Harmon's new play features uniformly standout performances and tells a poignant story of family dynamics.
Sonia Friedman has "created her own theater studio system," balancing big properties like "Harry Potter" and "Stranger Things" with more prestige work by Stoppard and Sondheim.
The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson's new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.
Playing all the characters in an update of Chekhov, the Irish actor turns what could be merely a stunt into a tour de force.
Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal " and combat " our era's disturbing political realities.
As Burgess prepares to step in to the hit Broadway comedy, he thinks he should have "spent more time at the gym."
