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Theatergoers and other performing-arts lovers are noticing the practice seems to have become the rule, not the exception.
The Taylor company returns to Lincoln Center with four premieres and a new resident choreographer: Robert Battle, the former director of Alvin Ailey.
She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.
In the 1880s, the only roles for Indigenous performers were laden with negative stereotypes. So Mohawk decided to write her own narratives.
In "Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!," Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.
"Maybe Happy Ending" had an initial Korean-language production in Seoul in 2016. Here are five things to know about the show.
Best known for his star turn in the cult film about a flesh-eating plant, he was a go-to member of the low-budget auteur Roger Corman's repertory company.
Pulling back the curtain on the peculiar customs and enduring superstitions that help define life backstage.
Emmy Rossum and Zoë Winters star in a new Off Broadway play that's a climate disaster drama cohabiting with a domestic soap opera.
Seventeen years after he first appeared in "Yellow Face," the veteran actor Francis Jue has returned with a nuanced performance as a blustery patriarch.
The stars of the new movie reflect on their long ride together, getting through Covid and the actors' strike, and avoiding "playing to the green."
For stars like Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga, showmanship is a virtue. That's a big change from the days when Anne Hathaway was vilified for her effortful work.
The decade-spanning story of a man aging in reverse comes to the West End, transformed into a thoughtful fable opening on the English coast.
Carolyn Adams, the Paul Taylor dancer turned educator, is being honored at the company's gala with a new solo by Robert Battle, her former student.
In certain circles, the name Ralph " like Merce or Madonna " lights up a room. The choreographer and visual artist is the subject of a major exhibition of his art and performances.
Netta Yerushalmy's "Movement" at N.Y.U. Skirball comes from a patchwork of sources: TikTok, television, marching band practice and more.
The actor discusses his new play, "The Other Americans," feeling underappreciated as a dramatist, and Latino representation.
How do you retool "What the Constitution Means to Me" for those unfamiliar with the U.S. Constitution? Consult Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The enduring Andrew Lloyd Webber musical will begin a multiyear tour in Baltimore in November 2025.
Joshua Henry stars in an exhilarating gala revival of the 1998 musical about nothing less than the harmony and discord of America.
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bill T. Jones's "Still/Here" returns, free of the AIDS-era context in which it premiered.
American Ballet Theater unveils "Crime and Punishment," an ambitious, but listless new production by Helen Pickett and James Bonas.
Amy Watson will helm the storied company as it grapples with the sudden departure of its previous artistic director and accusations of abuse at its school.
"Hothouse," at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; "In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot," at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
And is the culture telling the right stories about them, at a time when it's never felt more urgent?
