Drawing From Bob Dylan's Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson's "Girl From the North Country" and its passage through Broadway's pandemic shutdown.
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson's "Girl From the North Country" and its passage through Broadway's pandemic shutdown.
The actress won a Tony Award for "The Color Purple," and is now nominated for an Oscar for playing Elphaba in the film adaptation of "Wicked."
"No Other Land," about the destruction of a village in the occupied West Bank, is one of the year's most acclaimed films. Still, U.S. studios are unwilling to distribute it.
Act 1 was a constant struggle for rent and opportunity. But now that these emerging dramatists have emerged, what will they make of Act 2?
The actor, on a hot streak after "Wicked," takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare's unfortunate king as a flouncing sociopath.
A letter signed by 463 playwrights, poets, dancers, visual artists and others pushes back against new grant requirements that bar the promotion of diversity or "gender ideology."
"Let Me Be Your Star," which evokes an actor's longing to shine, has come a long way from its TV days. Here's how the song evolved on its way to the stage.
One of the busiest stage directors in Europe is fully arriving, at last, with "The Threepenny Opera" this spring.
"The Years," running in London, dramatizes a woman's life from teenage thrills to later-life sex. One intense scene is causing audience members to pass out.
Stage and audience alike at Studio 8H were packed with cast, alumni and other celebrities in a night that was in turns sweet and self-satirizing.
Onstage, Denzel Washington is Othello, and Paul Mescal is Stanley Kowalski as stars illuminate the theater marquees. Plus: FKA twigs takes "Eusexua" on tour. Bang on a Can, Twyla Tharp, and …
Danspace in Manhattan celebrates its anniversary with a festival that honors artistic transmission, passing down and reinventing older works.
The venerable sketch show is throwing itself a big star-studded party on Sunday night. Here's everything you need to know about it.
The Tony-winning actress co-stars with Bernadette Peters in "Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends," a show that is letting her surprise audiences with her comedy chops.
The news parody has launched comedy careers and courted controversy. Here, Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Michael Che and others recount its influential history.
His character, the smiling menace Mr. Milchick, has more responsibility in Season 2. He also has more of the spotlight.
It's still called the Kennedy Center. But after President Trump's takeover, drag performers protested outside while audience members inside worried about what might be in store.
He and his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured all they had into "Mama, I Want to Sing," a long-shot musical that became an enduring staple of Black theater.
The acclaimed troupe will relocate to a Times Square tower, more than doubling its footprint, and building six new studios.
The performance portion of "Edges of Ailey" at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition.
A bare-bones Chekhov, a critically acclaimed revival of "The Wedding Band" and the cult TV series "Smash" are all available for streaming.
A restored version of Charles Burnett's 1999 movie "The Annihilation of Fish" opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being virtually unshown for 25 years.
The "Wicked" belter scales a 300-foot tree, and a mountain of songs, in a powerful if woo-woo musical about trauma and resilience.
Lourdes Lopez, who championed contemporary ballets and elevated the company's profile, is departing two years before her contract expires.
"Gigenis," drawn from a tale in the Mahabharata, is the choreographer Akram Khan's most potent work in years.