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In his long-running Village Voice comic strip and in his many plays and screenplays, he took delight in skewering politics, relationships and human nature.
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
Local artists straddle aesthetic and artistic worlds in the land of mega-spectacles and oversize flash.
Widely considered America's first prima ballerina, Tallchief is being celebrated by New York City Ballet, where she was a Balanchine muse, in her centennial year.
After she married Mark Rylance, the two often collaborated; her specialty was arranging music for Tudor-era plays. Then she wrote a period piece of her own.
Striving to widen the audience of dance, she brought vitality to Broadway musicals like "Swing!" as well as ballets and Hollywood films.
To us, anyway. Over 50 seasons, "Saturday Night Live" has introduced crystal gravy, robot insurance and countless other demented goods and services. Share your favorites in the comments.
During a pandemic lockdown, out-of-work actors turned to the video game Grand Theft Auto Online, where a tortured soliloquy may be interrupted by a rocket launcher.
This month's picks include "Prima Facie," intimate audio plays and bite-size dramas.
The film captures two players staging the classic within an online video game, raising fascinating questions about community and connection.
The comedian and former late-night talk show host will be given the Kennedy Center's annual comedy honor at a ceremony in March.
The three films have momentum leading up to the planned Oscars nomination announcement next week.
Looking for something to do in New York? Explore the percussive side of saxophones with PRISM Quartet and Miguel Zenón or introduce the kids to "The Iron Giant."
"Show/Boat: A River" reverses the racial lens on the great-grandfather of American musicals.
Stories from refugee children, gloriously morbid puppets and a rooster who defies a dictator. These are some of the offbeat offerings this January.
Highlights so far of the 2025 contemporary dance festival, spread across New York City, are Symara Sarai and Leslie Cuyjet's outstanding dances.
The students in a summer acting course performed a play set in America, called, "It's okay!" And it gave them hope that their lives would be OK, too.
Miguel Gutierrez's "Super Nothing" at New York Live Arts asks how dance can confront the steady stream of life's troubles.
Seaview, whose buzzy shows include "Romeo + Juliet," has seized a chance to have its own theater by taking over Second Stage's former Off Broadway home.
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
Azara Ballet in Florida is a place where performers can just be themselves.
The stage employees union accused the nonprofit theater of stalling talks. The strike forced the cancellation of Sunday performances of two new plays.
The Out-Front! Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Saturday featured thrilling works by Angie Pittman ("Black Life Chord Changes") and Kyle Marshall ("Joan").
She was an aspiring actor when she was cast in an Andy Warhol film called "Tub Girls." But she was best known for the beloved Off Center Theater.
A reporter, an L.A. native, has watched movies and TV destroy her hometown for years, but nothing can prepare someone for seeing real devastation.
