Former NYCB performer Melissa Barak brings her own troupe to the Joyce Ballet Festival---The Joyce Ballet Festival (June 26-July 7) is a homecoming of sorts for Melissa Barak. The dancer-cho…
Graduates of TDF's Create New York program share how the experience has enhanced their lives---When I interviewed Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner earlier thi…
Dramatists are exploring LGBTQ life in uncharted ways---To judge only from Broadway, New York theatre is experiencing a Renaissance of old gay plays, with starry revivals of three landmark d…
Inside Encores! Off-Center's bittersweet new season---Quick: What do Encores! Off-Center's three summer revivals Songs for a New World, Gone Missing and Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope have in…
Playwright Donja R. Love explores queer love in the Civil War South---In the opening scene of Sugar in Our Wounds, Donja R. Love's lyrical world premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club, a young p…
The sexagenarian dancer-choreographer performs new and old work at Danspace Project---At an age when many of her peers are flirting with retirement, Molissa Fenley continues to be a vital fo…
Gregg Mozgala stars in Teenage Dick---Two years ago, when I first interviewed Gregg Mozgala, a performer with cerebral palsy, he said he was typically called in to audition just a few times …
How Parity Productions is helping female creatives get ahead---Ludovica Villar-Hauser has been developing, directing and producing shows on both sides of the Atlantic for more than three dec…
En Garde Arts' new show about the Rwandan genocide asks who owns history---On the empty ninth floor of an office building in downtown Manhattan, En Garde Arts has conjured two wildly differe…
How This Is Modern Art brings graffiti culture to the stage---Graffiti and theatre make uneasy bedfellows. Case in point: When Jessica Burr, the artistic director of experimental physical th…
How the Bard inspired a Wild West musical comedy---Though it's categorized as a comedy and ends with multiple weddings, Measure for Measure has long been considered one of Shakespeare's "pro…
Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles are hosting the Tony Awards tonight at Radio City Music Hall, and we're updating the list of winners live as they're announced!Best MusicalFrozenMean GirlsThe …
Elevator Repair Service sends up and adds on to Albee's seminal play--- Obie-winning avant-garde theatre company Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is known for deconstructing classics and transf…
How 10 Hairy Legs breaks gender stereotypes in dance---Randy James, the founding artistic director of 10 Hairy Legs (10HL), was watching his dancers run through their Baryshnikov Arts Center…
Leaving the theatre shouldn't feel like a competition---Pre-show announcements prompt theatre audiences to turn off their cell phones and unwrap any hard candies. But I think what we urgentl…
The playwright talks Angels, access and the future of culture in this country---It's a year of meaningful theatre milestones: TDF is turning 50 as Tony Kushner's magnum opus, the two-part, P…
Tony-winning director Doug Hughes embraces the moral quandaries in Dan Cody's Yacht---Director Doug Hughes vividly remembers the day he met playwright Anthony Giardina. A blizzard was swirli…
Michael Urie hosted the Drama Desk Awards at Town Hall tonight and we've got the complete list of winners below. Unlike next week's Tony Awards, which only honor Broadway productions, the Dr…
Basketball serves as a multifaceted metaphor in Lauren Yee's The Great Leap---Growing up, Lauren Yee's father Larry loved to regale her with tales from his youth, especially how he used to p…
How 17th-century Canadian history inspired this meditation on contemporary sexuality---The performance of femininity; 17th-century Canadian history; a half-man, half-pig podcaster; Claymatio…
Tony-winning designer Paul Tazewell talks Summer: The Donna Summer Musical---What becomes a legend most? That's what Paul Tazewell needed to figure out not once, not twice but three times as…
Last month at our 24th annual TDF Irene Sharaff Awards, which honors costume designers, we did something we never had before: recognized four artists from the world of dance. On April 20 at …
Meet EPIC Players, a "neuro-inclusive" theatre company mounting The Tempest---"Oh brave new world that has such people in't," declares Miranda toward the end of The Tempest. For the EPIC Pla…
Writer David Thompson on how he helped build The Beast in the Jungle---When Tony-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman said that the protagonist of The Beast in the Jungle was "waltzi…
Growing up in New York City, I went to see Broadway shows frequently with my family. And while full-price tickets were certainly much more affordable last century, we still took advantage of…