Critic's Notebook on the Broadway revivals of 'The Heidi Chronicles' and 'Skylight,' -- in which Elisabeth Moss and Carey Mulligan make politics personal
The co-creator of the 1998 musical steps into the Tony-winning Broadway revival, returning to the transgender role that earned him enduring cult worship.read more
"King Charles III" and "The Ruling Class," both playing in the West End, are responses to Britain's enduringly ambivalent obsession with its aristocracy and royal family.
As it begins a 16th season, Lincoln Center's American Songbook series has its most adventurous offerings yet.
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Two productions in the Under the Radar festival, "Cineastas" and "O Jardim," consider the gulf between images and the truths they obscure.
Second Stage is seeking $58 million to purchase the Helen Hayes Theater in an effort to join the small ranks of nonprofit theaters with a Broadway berth.
Cabaret is alive, stirring up excitement and receiving transfusions " thanks to young newcomers and old rockers " but no one can honestly say it's in great health.
In taking over a role originally played by Jimmy Nail, the rock star Sting takes a more subdued approach in "The Last Ship."
Taking over the role in "Cabaret" at Studio 54, Emma Stone portrays Sally as a desperately energetic flapper whose worst fear is not mattering.
The actress currently onscreen in 'Birdman' makes her Broadway debut as Sally Bowles in the hit revival directed by Sam Mendes and Rob Marshallread more
The "Little Dancer" sculpture by Degas is the inspiration for the new musical by the same name, starring Tiler Peck of New York City Ballet.
THEATER NOTEBOOK: The Moving Company brings to stage a project once intended for Theatre de la Jeune Lune.
THR chief film critic Todd McCarthy explains why film adaptations of Broadway plays " once a sure thing " are now a risky ventureread more
Still, upcoming productions of 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' 'Finding Neverland,' 'An American in Paris,' 'Doctor Zhivago' and 'Gigi' suggest the movie-to-musical trend is alive and kickingread more
Works at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia deal with the many ways both nature and human relationships can go wrong.
Television's most unlikely alter egos, Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe return for Season Two of A Young Doctor's Notebook amp Other Stories, tonight, August 19 at 1000 p.m. ET700 p.m. PT, only…
The Stratford Festival presents an opportunity to relate the themes of Shakespeare's seldom-staged history play "King John" to those of "King Lear."
The musical "Finding Neverland," about the creator of Peter Pan, is making test flights at the American Repertory Theater.
Peter Sellars directed only one of two productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, but his touch can be seen in both.
The third edition of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival pays homage to the writer in multiple ways.
Three plays with particularly passionate women are running in London: "Medea," "Bakersfield Mist" (with Kathleen Turner) and Noël Coward's "This Was a Man."
A London revival of Oscar Wilde's "Earnest" is the latest of several productions that have cast stage veterans in younger roles.
The quick closing of the Tupac Shakur musical, "Holler if Ya Hear Me," prompts a critical assessment.
Battersea Arts Centre, London: This is the first time in its 30-year history that Forced Entertainment has adapted a novel for the stage - and the results are both relentless and hypnotic. R…