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Get your performing arts fix online with live-streamed and prerecorded offeringsAs of now, there are no plans to live-stream Broadway productions. However, some nonprofit institutions beyond…
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis is impacting everyone around the world, but the theatre industry has been hit particularly hard. In New York City, all theatres on Broadway and beyond have been o…
On March 12, due to the quickly evolving COVID-19 crisis, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo prohibited gatherings of more than 500 people and commanded smaller venues to reduce their occu…
How the role of Anne Boleyn changed Andrea Macasaet's life---An impromptu trip to an open call landed Andrea Macasaet in the cast of Six, a feminist pop musical about King Henry VIII's ill-f…
How the role of Anne Boleyn changed Andrea Macasaet life---An impromptu trip to an open call landed Andrea Macasaet in the cast of Six, a feminist pop musical about King Henry VIII's ill-fat…
Hilary Bettis on her new play 72 Miles to Go… at Roundabout Theatre Company---Long before she dreamed of becoming a playwright, Hilary Bettis wanted to be a veterinarian. "How people …
Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get enthusiastic about things---This week, TDF Stages Editor Raven Snook geeks out (via Facebook Messenger) with Juan Michael Porter II, a d…
Why the Spanish-language production of Robert Schenkkan's Building the Wall is scarily relevant---A week before the 2016 presidential election, Pulitzer- and Tony-winning dramatist Robert Sc…
Azure D. Osborne-Lee on why Mirrors was a long time coming ---A drama about black women in '60s Mississippi whose lives are constrained by misogyny and homophobia, Mirrors feels like a …
The Tony nominee croons Bob Dylan tunes in her first Broadway musicalAlthough Mare Winnigham made her name in movies (a virgin crushing on a bad boy in St. Elmo's Fire, her Oscar-nominated p…
Sideways: The Experience is the latest show to pair live entertainment with eating and imbibing---Dinner theatre used to mean audiences enjoyed a meal while watching a show. But over the pas…
Writer-composer Greg Kotis and his wife Ayun Halliday gab about their latest irreverent theatrical collaboration---Greg Kotis (who won a pair of Tony Awards for writing the book and lyrics o…
Catch works by two Broadway choreographers, Bessie Award winners and a slew of international companies---This month's dance events are all over the map—literally. The Joyce Theater pre…
Veteran character actor Patrick Breen on starring in The Perplexed at Manhattan Theatre Club---Patrick Breen sets the darkly humorous tone for Manhattan Theatre Club's The Perplexed, Richard…
Obie winner Deirdre O'Connell tackles her greatest acting challenge yet in Dana H at the Vineyard Theatre---When Lucas Hnath first approached Deirdre O'Connell about portraying his mother in…
The Tony nominee talks about starring in the revisal of The Unsinkable Molly Brown---Having been raised in the Rocky Mountain State, Beth Malone grew up on the legend of Molly Brown: the "un…
The button-pushing playwright returns to a 2011 cabaret experiment, but takes herself off the stageIn 2018, Young Jean Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Br…
Christopher Chen talks about his latest puzzle of a play, which is having its world premiere at Lincoln Center---Henry (Aaron Yoo), the narrator and central character of The Headlands at Lin…
Obie winner Chay Yew on directing Cambodian Rock Band at Signature Theatre---A few years ago, when Lauren Yee approached Chay Yew about directing the world premiere of her play Cambodian Roc…
Harriet Tubman, Nellie Bly and Molly Brown are just a handful of the sheroes being celebrated on New York stages---When I was asked to write a book about the history of feminist theatre, my …
The all-male Compagnie Hervé KOUBI brings its hybrid style to the Joyce---Hervé Koubi's pharmacology degree may not impact his work as a choreographer, but it's a telling indic…
African American actress Stephanie Berry plays the creature and his creator in this new production at Classic Stage Company---The original mad scientist story, Frankenstein, is alive on stag…
With a pair of witty plays in the East Village, Sarah Einspanier is a writer to watch---Considering Sarah Einspanier has two productions running in New York this spring, it's jarring to hear…
Often at City Center's signature series, I find myself time traveling…"Well, I saw the original production…"It was inevitable that I would utter those words at City Center's En…
Black theatre great Vinie Burrows on her latest role and her life's work---Vinie Burrows made her Broadway debut in 1950 and has been working on stage ever since. Yet incredibly, the 95-year…