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Breaking, the dance form created more than 50 years ago in the Bronx, has made its Olympic debut. It's not a sport, but does that matter?
George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Denzel Washington and Mia Farrow are coming to Broadway, where some producers see plays with stars as safer bets than musicals.
From the cloakroom at Sardi's, she made her own mark on Broadway, hobnobbing with celebrity clients while safekeeping fedoras, bowlers, derbies and more.
Women are competing in breaking in greater numbers and, thanks to better training and more opportunities, with more dynamic moves.
A panel of nine judges will apply Olympic rules to the dance form that originated as a free-flowing expression of hip-hop culture.
A revival of "Glengarry Glen Ross," David Mamet's classic play about unscrupulous real estate agents, is to open next spring.
Samuel Beckett's life is reduced to mommy and daddy issues in a biopic that offers simple explanations for the career of a complex writer.
At the Palais Garnier, ballet met hip-hop and beyond in a glittering Cultural Olympiad presentation of Saïdo Lehlouh's ever-evolving "Apaches."
The muted reaction to the Edinburgh Fringe show "TERF" suggests that when activists engage with potentially inflammatory art, offense can quickly vanish.
In "Someone Spectacular," Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl.
The play, now running in London, is set 24 years before the start of the Netflix series.
Many New Yorkers can rattle off the phone number by heart. "Cellino v. Barnes" chronicles the rise and fall of these prominent injury lawyers.
The streets of the Scottish capital are packed as thousands of performers seek to entertain and entice.
A musical about particle physics is under development, with David Henry Hwang, the playwright behind "M. Butterfly."
Broadway shows are increasingly looking to Instagram and TikTok creators to help them reach younger and more diverse audiences.
Hayao Miyazaki's classic film is now onstage, brought to life with elements including a nearly 20-foot-long dragon.
The act of creation is rarely a solo affair. Here are five outsize teams behind projects ranging from a performance piece to a new pizza.
Rachid Ouramdane, who presented a major new dance as part of the Cultural Olympiad, directs the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. How does he do it all?
Olympic gymnastics would be more enjoyable on TV and in the arena if choreography were less of an afterthought, our critic writes.
Kristin Chenoweth stars in "The Queen of Versailles" in Boston, while a new "Gatsby" musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.
Roy Cockrum has donated more than $25 million to 39 theaters, helping the Old Globe in San Diego stage the one Shakespeare play it had yet to produce.
Previous editions of the performing arts event launched shows like "Baby Reindeer" and "Fleabag." Maybe there's another breakout hit among this year's more than 3,300 shows.
They played slacker buddies in three "Bill & Ted" films, and next year they plan to reunite for Beckett's classic tragicomedy.
The actor will return to the stage this fall in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's "Hold On to Me Darling."
The recording, inspired by Walter Hill's 1979 film about a gang making a perilous trek through New York City, will be available on Oct. 18.
