A new book by the Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt contends that the innovative dramatist Christopher Marlowe was the genius who inspired a cultural awakening.
En el teatro y en clubes de rock, en películas y redes sociales, mujeres jóvenes lanzan gritos liberadores e invitan a todo el mundo a unírseles.
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play gets a fiercely minimalist production at the Shed.
“Kiss my grits,” her character, Flo, was known to say. But that high-profile role was just one facet of a long, busy stage and screen career.
By recreating a snippet of the number “Best of Wives and Best of Women,” these funny shorts serve as both tribute and critique.
“Saturday Church” taps into music from several genres, as well as Sia, to tell the story of a teenager struggling with his sexuality and faith.
Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck,” an early Celine Song play and John Leguizamo’s new family drama — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.
The revival will now end its run on Sept. 21, much earlier than previously hoped for.
A shriekathon in “John Proctor Is the Villain” is the latest in a wave of young women letting their pipes loose — and exhorting anyone to join in.
Noh was once the entertainment of medieval warriors. Today, remote Sado Islanders embrace one of the world’s oldest surviving types of drama.
A director and choreographer, he introduced Berber dances and music to New York’s downtown theater scene. He also staged elaborate soirees for the wealthy, one attended by Donald Trump.
At Little Island, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is starring, and singing, in Charles Ludlam’s “Galas,” a love letter to Callas.
After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.
Luke Newton gets out of his period costume waistcoat and steps into the life of a legendary designer.
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
“The Brothers Size” at the Shed is speaking to a new generation of audiences. “Unfortunately, parts of the plays are still relevant,” McCraney said.
“Born With Teeth,” which premiered in the West End of London this week, imagines the writers’ working relationship as heavy on bawdy flirtation.
In his first Off Broadway play, the artist and comedian behind “Fantasmas” and “Problemista” is bringing audiences into his off-kilter world.
Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, “Working Girl” in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and “Paranormal Activity” in Illinois.
Season highlights this fall include Michelle Williams in a Eugene O’Neill drama, a new Kristin Chenoweth musical and a revival of “Ragtime.”
She forged an arts career in Houston while raising children who became accomplished entertainers: Phylicia Rashad, Debbie Allen and Tex Allen.
In this excerpt from a forthcoming biography, the playwright faces a swell of criticism over “Hamilton” and his efforts to help his beloved Puerto Rico.
The pop diva is one of several to hold court at Madison Square Garden in September, and the West Indian American Day Parade and other celebrations return.
Han pasado 60 años desde que la película se estrenó en cines. A pesar de atraer millones de dólares en turismo a Austria cada año, desconcierta a muchos lugareños.
The wandering prince of the title sings in this version from the Public Theater’s Public Works, with a cast of everyday New Yorkers and stars like Denée Benton.
A 2012 documentary asked if Jacqueline Siegel was a benefactor or victim of American greed. A new musical starring Kristin Chenoweth raises doubts.
Louisa Melcher and Andrew Fox represent a new kind of comedy star: They wield obnoxiousness and alienation for humor — as long as you’re in on the joke.
In Salzburg, an anniversary of “The Sound of Music” looks grand through a child’s eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.
After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.
Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of “Cabaret” in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.
She later became a powerful solo artist in her own right, creating a dance trilogy steeped in myth and feminine archetypes.
An actor, director and playwright for La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, he later found an even more distinct role: curating its vast archive.
After spending years in behind-the-scenes roles on Broadway, he enjoyed a late career transformation to become an actor in films and on television.
The actress is luminous, alongside her look-alike brother Junior Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, in Shakespeare’s comedy at the newly revived Delacorte Theater.
Several theater productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including drama, comedy and musicals, deal with the effects of psychic pain.
Williamstown Theater Festival gets a reboot.
The play, by David Auburn, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 2001.
The play was written by Tracy Letts, who is married to Coon. It’s about a down-and-out duo for whom motel room insects prompt paranoia.
“You don’t need to make the giant, multimillion dollar thing to have an impact,” said Dan Daly, a co-creator of the climate-themed “Arborlogues.”
The recognizable masthead has been portrayed in a Betty Boop musical on Broadway, a Marvel movie and many other creative works.
The musical “Operation Mincemeat” tells the story of an absurd feat of deception dreamed up by this spy-turned-novelist. His real acts of espionage were even wilder.
With mortality on his mind, the insult comic comes to Broadway in a gentle, tough-guy solo show.
The nation’s longest-running theatrical club toasts its old Manhattan home before moving to a new place.
At first it seemed unthinkable that the school’s spring musical, “Alice in Wonderland,” would happen. But school leaders quickly decided that it should go on.
Jeffrey Finn, a Broadway producer who has overseen theater programming at the Washington venue since 2016, will leave next month.
Check out the Broadway blockbuster, which celebrates its 10th anniversary, and Michael Abbensetts’s play about the Guyanese community of London.
The shows that have gotten tongues wagging this year include stand-up gigs, character skits and a routine that ends with its performer covered in goo.
The musical, just like the Abba songs that inspired it, has become an everlasting part of the pop-culture landscape.
His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York.
President Trump held forth about the nature of show business and his own tortured relationship with celebrity.
Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.
Stagehands and other backstage workers have gone on strike against a prominent theater, and two productions have been canceled.
With less touring, it’s been a while since all the world has been its stage, but the troupe is working with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater — where it has family ties.
Mason, an associate director of “The Roommate,” which opened on Broadway last week, stepped in as Patti LuPone’s counterpart.
Broadway is still recovering from the pandemic. A state tax-credit program has helped, but watchdogs say it aids some shows that don’t need a boost.
Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has roared back, while attendance on Broadway and at some major museums is still down.
In an effort to entice audiences back after the pandemic, Britain’s National Theater is testing a 6:30 p.m. curtain.
The small theaters that help make the city a theater capital are cutting back as they struggle to recover from the pandemic.
Readers discuss the decline in theater subscribers after the pandemic. Also: Northern Ireland; food allergies; a Covid playmate; anti-China bias.
Michael Paulson spoke with producers and artistic directors at nonprofit theaters across the country about the crisis their industry is facing.
As they struggle to recover after the pandemic, regional theaters are staging fewer shows, giving fewer performances, laying off staff and, in some cases, closing.
Suzan-Lori Parks wrote one play a day for 13 months during the pandemic. Those stories come to life onstage in the form of monologues, dialogues and songs at Joe’s Pub.
When shuttered venues embraced streaming during the pandemic, the arts became more accessible. With live performance back, and streams dwindling, many feel forgotten.
The veteran performance artist Karen Finley leads the audience through the troubles that plagued New York City at the peak of the pandemic.
A ceremony for the awards, celebrating work Off and Off Off Broadway, will be held Monday, but organizers decided to announce the winners in advance.
Broadway shows grossed $51.9 million during the holiday week, the most since 2019, and “The Lion King” set a record for the most earned by any show in a single week.
Stakeholders including Patti LuPone and Lynn Nottage share their real-time reactions to New York theater’s shutdown and reopening in Amy Rice’s documentary.
After one holiday season lost to the pandemic and another curtailed by Omicron, seasonal staples including “The Nutcracker,” “A Christmas Carol” and “Messiah” are back in force.
An annual survey, suspended during the pandemic, resumes and finds theaters nationally doing fewer shows and torn between escapism and ambition.
Responses to an essay that criticized Anthony Fauci’s handling of the pandemic. Also: Migrants as props; abortion rights; David Milch; theater’s lessons.
Some audience members are turned off by mask mandates. Others won’t attend indoor performances without them. Arts presenters are taking different approaches this season.
After a two-year pandemic delay, villagers in the German town of Oberammergau are once again re-enacting the story of Jesus’s life and death, with some changes.
“American Buffalo,” at Circle in the Square, is sticking with masking till it closes, July 10, citing the “proximity of the audience to the actors” and “the staging in the round.”
Beginning in July, Broadway will no longer require audiences to mask up. Actors and theater workers aren’t loving the idea.
Beginning in July, Broadway will no longer require audiences to mask up. Actors and theater workers aren’t loving the idea.
Most theaters stopped requiring proof of vaccination this spring. Now they are going “mask optional.”
“The Lehman Trilogy” won best play, “Company” won best musical revival and “Take Me Out” won best revival of a play at the 75th Tony Awards.
The musical, which opened in 2017, is the third to announce a closing in two days, as many shows struggle in a pandemic-softened marketplace.
The decision comes at a time when New York City has declared a “high Covid alert.”
At times it felt like a game of survival. But during a Broadway season unlike any other, productions showed their resourcefulness while learning how to live with Covid.
The musical, which shuttered temporarily in January as the Omicron variant spread, has struggled with the slow return of tourists to the theater.
While for-profit theater owners and operators agreed to stop checking proof of vaccination this week, several nonprofit Broadway theaters continue to require it.
Broadway enthusiasts, art aficionados and food lovers will find new offerings in and around Times Square and in neighborhoods below 42nd Street, heralding the promise of a vibrant recovery.
The revival, directed by Camille A. Brown, received strong reviews but struggled to attract audiences and overcome challenges posed by Covid.
