How Hollywood screenwriters worked with an international team to create Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise at The Shed---The two screenwriters of the Kung Fu Panda movies, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn B…
The Obie-winning solo artist digs into his traumatic past for We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time---Ever since his auspicious 1986 New York debut The Redthroats, about an unhappy gay…
Where to see marionettes and other puppets on stage, including cutting-edge shows for grown-ups---The heyday of the year-round, brick-and-mortar puppet theatre may have passed with the closi…
Playwright Aaron Posner continues his series of Chekhov reinventions with Life Sucks.---You can play a fun drinking game figuring out how many plays by Russian master Anton Chekhov have…
Whether staff cut swearwords or swastikas, or asked for script rewrites, we want to hear your stories---Last fall, when I read that the principal of Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Musi…
A new bio-play puts the first woman to play big-league professional baseball center stage---If you've never heard of Toni Stone, don't worry -- you're in good company. Playwright Lydia R. Di…
Megan Hill stars in the world premiere of Open, her third new play in six months---It's fitting that Megan Hill is currently playing a magician of sorts because over the past six months she'…
17 shows to see at lauded out-of-town venues in Hudson Valley, the Berkshires and beyond---While there are still plenty of productions to see in New York over the summer, this is the season …
In honor of Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce, two actresses take on his most iconic female character---Irish-born actresses Aedín Moloney and Eilin O'Dea separately st…
Catch renowned companies, cutting-edge choreographers and even a few free alfresco events---Summer may not typically be thought of as a hotbed of dance. But this June is full of movement, wi…
The Tonys have all been given out, and Hadestown was the big winner, with a total of eight awards, including Best Musical and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical for…
Will the Tonys take the road to Hadestown, a trip to The Prom or an unexpected detour to Tootsie, Beetlejuice or Ain't Too Proud? We're updating the winners LIVE as they're announced.Ja?mes …
13 productions to get you in the spirit of Pride Month---Sure, parades and parties are fun. But as avid theatregoers, my husband and I spend a lot of our Pride Month seeing shows with LGBTQ …
Michael R. Jackson on his unconventional tuner at Playwrights Horizons---Michael R. Jackson's new musical A Strange Loop, currently at Playwrights Horizons and produced in association with P…
After a 14-month hiatus, the venerable troupe returns with an all-Bach program---The past year has been a period of major transition for the 65-year-old Paul Taylor American Modern Dance (PT…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright returns to NYC after a five-year absence with a twisty tale of two brothers---Even though Donald Margulies' Long Lost takes place in New York City, a 20…
Carla Ching's new play Nomad Motel is a different kind of coming-of-age story---One of the worst days of Carla Ching's life took place when she was living in New York City. At the time, the …
Michael Urie hosted the Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall last night and we've got the complete list of winners below. Unlike this Sunday's Tony Awards, which only honor Broadway productions, t…
This teen didn't think theatre was for her. Now she can't get enough of it---A few Sundays ago, a cohort of students from Queens' William Cullen Bryant High School went to see the Broadway p…
Christopher Shinn didn't expect to helm the Second Stage revival of his play Dying City, but he's happy to help---When Lila Neugebauer had to bow out of directing the revival of Christopher …
An impressive roster of playwrights redo the Bard in modern-day English for the Play On! Festival---Director and dramaturg Lue Morgan Douthit didn't grow up loving the Bard. Her grandparents…
How Kristolyn Lloyd creates a radically new yet completely authentic Jo in Little WomenIn one of the most famous moments in Louisa May Alcott's beloved 19th-century novel Little Women, feist…
Meet Theater Breaking Through Barriers (TBTB), an Off-Broadway company dedicated to advancing artists with disabilities. Founded in 1979 as Theater by the Blind, TBTB changed its name and ex…
Artistic director Charlotte Moore talks about the company's ambitious undertaking---It's been about 60 years since Charlotte Moore, as a college student in St. Louis, discovered the work of …
Arin Arbus talks about making her Broadway debut with a starry revival of the romantic dramedy---Director Arin Arbus was surprised to discover that playwright Terrence McNally (Love! Valour!…