A new interactive show fuses theatrical design and neuroscience in an attempt to parse the female brain---Back in 2012, Melania Trump tweeted out a photo of a whale with the caption, "What i…
The three-time Tony winner on directing the New York premiere of The Hard Problem---Parsing the nature of consciousness sounds like a subject for a research think tank, not an Off-Broadway s…
Two stars of the new Broadway musical comedy talk about its healing properties---Prom has long been a rite of passage for American teens, a celebration of impending adulthood and, overwhelmi…
The lauded actor leads Classic Stage Company's revival of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui---Raúl Esparza's vibrant and diverse characterizations have earned him four Tony nominations…
The legendary dance-maker reflects on her early years in Minimalism and Me---In 1965, a very brief, rather odd dance performance took place in a Hunter College art studio. The choreographer …
The BFFs behind The Other Josh Cohen chat about their revamped show---Longtime pals Steve Rosen and David Rossmer have two rules when collaborating: 1. No jerks allowed; 2. The best idea alw…
Lauren Gunderson's Natural Shocks debuts at the WP Theater---Lauren Gunderson had wanted to write a play about women and guns in America for decades, ever since her activist days in high sch…
Tony-winning designer Roger Kirk returns to Broadway with King Kong---Costume designer Roger Kirk didn't have to worry about dressing the title character for King Kong on Broadway. Apes don'…
After 13 years, Will Eno's funny and unnerving monologue Thom Pain returns with Michael C. Hall---Although dramatists are not necessarily the characters they write, there are many compelling…
Actor Ryan Spahn on why he's starring in this play a third time---Over the past three years, Ryan Spahn has portrayed the same part in three separate runs of the same play. And yet, due to m…
Playwright Christopher Demos-Brown makes his Broadway debut with the racially charged drama---The new Broadway play American Son explores the notion of justice (or lack thereof) by chronicli…
Ngozi Anyanwu stars in her new play Good Grief at the Vineyard Theatre---Media depictions of black folk frequently flatten out their complexity. The relentlessly chipper black neighbor on th…
La MaMa kicks off a monthlong festival of provocative puppet productions---Food for the Gods is about the killing of black men; Exodus addresses the current refugee crisis; Blind is a solo w…
How Stephanie Monseu became the ruler of the ring at the 41st edition of the show---This may be the first year that Stephanie Monseu is standing in the spotlight at the Big Apple Circus at L…
Why Tony nominee Dane Laffrey completely reconfigured the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater for Lewiston/Clarkson---"You said you needed space; I gave you space," a drug-addicted mother tells …
No one mourns for Wicked! That's because, after 15 years on Broadway, Stephen Schwartz's musical about the friendship between the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good is still going …
Christian Borle makes his New York directorial debut with the comedy Popcorn Falls---Christian Borle's comic invention and crackerjack timing have enlivened many a Broadway show over the pas…
David Cromer on costarring in The Waverly Gallery on Broadway---How do you follow up winning the 2018 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical? For David Cromer, who snagged that statuette…
Inside Cara Scarmack's examination of motherhood, isolation, the apocalypse and everyday weirdness---By the time I arrived at Cara Scarmack's some higher glimmer in our landscape of flat, pr…
Justin Edwards on the necessary realism of The Ferryman on Broadway---W.C. Fields famously quipped that actors should "never work with children or animals." Yet Justin Edwards is doing both …
Why Kimberly Senior enjoys helming shows that raise tough questions about our multicultural society---At first glance, Aasif Mandvi's Sakina's Restaurant at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre an…
How an iconic 1912 poem inspired an unconventional musical---Veteran musical director Carmel Dean had worked closely with celebrated artists ranging from Green Day to Chita Rivera, but she p…
How playwright Emily Mann turned Gloria Steinem's life into activist theatre ---Breaking new ground for women in theatre is nothing new for Emily Mann. The 66-year-old playwright and directo…
American Ballet Theater debuts two works that incorporate tap and contemporary dance---This week, American Ballet Theater returns to Lincoln Center with a fall season that is lean, adve…
Andrew R. Butler's new folk musical is set two centuries from now but speaks to today---A man with long, unruly red hair and a matching beard takes the Ars Nova stage with a guitar. He says …