Astoria Performing Arts Center mounts its first production in its new space---Last Labor Day weekend, as most New Yorkers basked in the last vestiges of summer, a Queens theatre company was …
NYCB presents sneaker ballets by Jerome Robbins and Justin Peck---When Justin Peck's The Times Are Racing premiered two years ago at New York City Ballet, it offered an exciting jolt. There …
How City of No Illusions explores the connection between death and immigration---In City of No Illusions, a young Syrian refugee named Saad takes a job in a Buffalo, NY funeral parlor run by…
The Tony-winning actress helms Strindberg's The Dance of Death for Classic Stage Company---Victoria Clark has been job hunting lately, but not in a desperate way. A celebrated Broadway perfo…
A guide to 16 upcoming productions The Broadway season is about to kick into high gear with 14 new shows opening between now and the end of April, plus two big summer entries. Highlights inc…
Why TV star Gbenga Akinnagbe's Broadway debut feels so personal and important---Most wouldn't see a link between stone-cold killer Chris Partlow from HBO's The Wire, flashy pimp-turned-porn-…
How Be More Chill, The Prom and Dear Evan Hansen are attracting teens and young adults---"A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dre…
Leah Nanako Winkler's on her new play God Said This---Leah Nanako Winkler started writing God Said This while keeping her cancer-stricken mother company during chemotherapy sessions in Kentu…
Well, Rent on Fox wasn't exactly live, but the show still went on, mostly using prerecorded footage from its dress rehearsal, which is when star Brennin Hunt broke his foot. During the first…
Two-time Tony nominee Johanna Day talks about starring in the nonlinear play Joan---Last fall when Johanna Day's agent called her about doing Stephen Belber's new play Joan, she immediately …
Jessica Dickey on her world-premiere play The Convent---The residents of The Convent, Jessica Dickey's new dark comedy at A.R.T./New York Theatres, aren't your typical nuns. In fact, most of…
Grupo Corpo brings two startlingly different works to BAM---Keeping a modern dance company alive and thriving for more than four decades is quite a feat -- especially in a city that isn't ex…
James Macdonald on directing Sam Shepard's True West on Broadway---Takedowns of toxic masculinity are all the rage these days, but the way it implodes on stage in the new Broadway revival of…
Where to see shows that value accessibility on both sides of the footlights---According to the most recent statistics, more than 40 million Americans have a disability, and about 948,208 are…
A new play examines the complicated legacy of Dr. J. Marion Sims---Naomi Lorrain always hears groans from the audience when her character, Philomena, undergoes a gynecological examination in…
Diana Oh's latest offering is tough to define but oh so much funDiana Oh is throwing a bash and everyone is invited. On Friday and Saturday evenings at Brooklyn's Bushwick Starr, the genre-b…
How Patrick McCollum found the right moves for Broadway's The Band's Visit---How do you create choreography for a subtle story about human connection? That's what Patrick McCollum had to fig…
As you've probably already heard, Carol Channing passed away today at the age of 97. Although she made a handful of movies and frequently appeared on TV, the stage was her home. It was where…
The audience is forced to act -- in both senses of the word -- at The Mortality Machine---Days before ticket holders descend into a Lower East Side basement to experience The Mortality Machi…
Whether you want to rent, buy or just gawk at costumes, here are ways the Collection can help you---You probably know that TDF supports audiences by offering discounted tickets and a variety…
Caleb Eberhardt makes a tuneful Broadway debut in Choir Boy---Six years after its acclaimed Off-Broadway run at Manhattan Theatre Club, Tarrell Alvin McCraney's music-infused Choir Boy bring…
The Guggenheim's Works & Process series gives audiences insight into the creative process---The Guggenheim Museum is world-renowned for its visual art installations, but did you know it …
Marin Ireland is all fired up in Abby Rosebrock's Blue Ridge---In 2015, Abby Rosebrock's mentor said he was worried about her due to "all this plasma hot rage" in the new play she was writin…
The Public Theater nurtures the future of experimental performance at Incoming! at Under the Radar---Since its founding in 2005, the Public Theater's annual Under the Radar festival has been…
How New Yiddish Rep's production evokes the refugee crises of the present and past---Samuel Beckett wrote Waiting for Godot in French before reimagining it in English. Since its 1953 premier…