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A hilarious new Broadway production asks: Can the superwoke vaxxers and anti-vaxxers at an elite private school learn to get along?
The Trocks were never interested in making a political statement, their artistic director said. "We are men doing performances of ballet in drag for comedic purposes."
Guillaume Diop has reached the highest level in the Paris Opera Ballet. He has also become a fashion-world darling and a symbol of a more diverse France.
Across the arts world, these 10 performers broke away from the pack this year by channeling guts and grit into their work.
Hope Boykin's "Finding Free" and Lar Lubovitch's "Many Angels" aspire to find higher ground at New York City Center.
In "Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words," Michael Owen offers a sympathetic portrait of the lyricist, overshadowed in a life that had him tending the legacy of his younger sibling George.
The choreographer Tess Dworman inhabits an assortment of people (and an ottoman) in her dance-theater work "Everything Must Go."
The movie scenes, TV episodes, song lyrics and other moments that reporters, critics, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn't stop thinking about this year.
A hilarious, harrowing holiday gift from Leslye Headland, who brings another unhappy family to Broadway. Zachary Quinto and Shailene Woodley star.
"You can't read a page without laughing," says the author of "The Outsiders," who's watched the stage musical of the novel become a Tony Award-winning hit this year.
Our critics discuss which A-lister performances on the West End were worth the ticket price, and why so many new musicals struggled this year.
South Coast Repertory, which he founded with a partner, was a major force in Southern California theater. He directed more than 100 of its productions.
The comedian behind the parody about the Australian breaker who became a summer celebrity said she was willing to make some changes to avoid legal drama.
Backstage at the Broadway play, they're frying up the aroma of breakfast " part of a long tradition of adding scents to plays and movies.
Making his Broadway debut as the show's Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls "a thinking piece of musical theater."
Once-in-a-generation ballerinas, topical works that transcended politics and a voguing "Cats" were highlights of the year.
A solo by the choreographer Bintou Dembélé, the first showing of her work in the United States, explored the crossover between hip-hop and diasporic African ritual.
A bipartisan crowd honored Francis Ford Coppola, the Grateful Dead, Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Apollo Theater. Some wondered if Donald J. Trump would attend next year.
Broadway roared back, but the kitties were downtown and the prayer service was in Brooklyn.
"The Outsiders," "Sunset Boulevard" and "Ragtime" were among the productions with stage moments that stood out this year.
He conducted Broadway shows and worked with Bernadette Peters. But he was probably best known for writing the music for the darkly comic "Ruthless!"
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns for its annual December season with an enigmatic premiere by Jamar Roberts and the revival of "Grace."
Only the women who've played Elphaba and Glinda in the show's two decades onstage understand why the roles are so taxing " and so rewarding, too.
Ms. Russell, who hasn't missed a performance of her Off Broadway show in nearly 30 years, fills her day with pets, church, teaching and two shows.
Kentridge's film played over Shostakovich's 10th symphony at a New York Philharmonic concert led by Keri-Lynn Wilson.
