At the heart of Daniel Fish’s verbatim staging of a C-SPAN segment is a complex relationship, between Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, that “goes from ‘I hate you’ to ‘I love you’ and back.”
Ngozi Anyanwu’s searing two-hander follows a brother and sister who train in boxing, side by side.
In Alexander Zeldin’s naturalistic adaptation of “Antigone,” Tobias Menzies and Emma D’Arcy star as a feuding uncle and niece.
The musical, called “Galileo,” will star Raúl Esparza, and is scheduled to open in December at the Shubert Theater.
Gaulier often insulted his pupils, but many became stars, including Sacha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.
Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty, the stars of the new musical “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” meet for a stroll one blustery afternoon.
He’s most commonly recognized for his screen roles as a plotting hit man and an unlikely Lothario, but it’s his work as a playwright that shows more of his true self.
A revival of a 1964 musical, which puts a supernatural spin on a Noël Coward play, features a starry cast: Andrea Martin, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale and Katrina Lenk.
The final New York performance will be July 26, seven years after it opened; international and touring productions continue.
Watching the dazzling Randolph sisters now offers important lessons — and delightful entertainment.
A new London production of the playwright’s masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.
Ten actors wear the crowns in Karin Coonrod’s production, which is rich with twilight revelation, at La MaMa in Manhattan.
A recent production of “Othello” proves that small creative flowers can grow between the dreary slabs of cultural concrete laid by the Communist Party.
She was a ubiquitous presence at London theaters and claimed to have inspired the name — and final words — of Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois.
Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?
The actor Harry Melling shed his image as Harry’s cruel cousin, Dudley Dursley — and his clothes — to star in the queer romance “Pillion.”
A new work by the director Lorraine de Sagazan looks at a high-profile case that will soon be heard in a French court.
In David Cale’s “The Unknown,” the actor plays 11 characters including a writer suffering the horrors of writer’s block and an unraveling mind.
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Sean Hayes performs a new solo thriller, Alia Shawkat leads a play revival and Ethan Slater stars as Marcel Marceau in a world premiere.
This month offers a Valentine’s Saturday, a Fat Tuesday and a month of Black history, plus the Harlem Globetrotters and a last call for Gumby.
The New York Times Magazine gathered nearly 150 people obsessed with the musical ‘Operation Mincemeat’ for a photo shoot in Manhattan.
Personal history emerges by painful degrees in “Oedipus,” whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, “wreck me every time.”
A Disney fan who once “flew” off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
She watched the movie as a teenager, now the star of “School Spirits” and “Cobra Kai” is playing the acid-tongued queen bee Heather Chandler onstage.
Keep boredom and cabin fever at bay with hot chocolate excursions, Lunar New Year festivities and a sleepover on the Intrepid.
Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of “A Doll’s House,” a “Macbeth”-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small.
“Watch Me Walk,” “Ulysses” and other offerings from Under the Radar and the Exponential Festival engage with personal histories and the works of literary lions.
Judy Collins, Mandy Patinkin, Renée Fleming, Michael R. Jackson, Melissa Errico, Tony Kushner, Sherman Irby and New York Times writers and editors pick 14 songs to seal the deal.
La vida en Birmania se trastornó hace cinco años, cuando los militares tomaron el poder. Ahora, la junta gobernante intenta proyectar una apariencia de legitimidad y normalidad.
“The Outsiders” is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.
But the shows, which combine dance, drama and music, are also part of an effort by Myanmar’s military rulers to project a veneer of legitimacy.
In Matthew Libby’s play, a brilliant young computer programmer finds himself at the center of one of the most contentious issues of the moment: immigration.
The Smithsonian said all of its museums, research centers and the National Zoo would be closed on Sunday and Monday. Most Broadway shows were still expected to make their curtains.
Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there’s a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is “Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner.”
Miet Warlop’s work is visually breathtaking, but there are deep questions to ponder beneath the showy surfaces.
The curtain is about to come down on two jukebox musicals, a thriller by Tracy Letts, and other Broadway productions.
January is not a dry month for performance in New York, and this season, there were wide-ranging views of how bodies — more than words — can tell stories.
Musicians, theater groups and others from overseas are facing visa challenges and rising costs, posing a looming crisis for the performing arts sector.
The immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is a hit, with some people coming back a dozen times since it began performances last summer.
She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.
Everyone expected “The Kholops,” a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.
Erica Schmidt’s discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.
Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show “Eat the Rich.”
He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of “Company,” “Titanic” and “Six Degrees of Separation” and numerous film and TV appearances.
Other picks include “Bat Out of Hell: The Musical,” a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and “Lazarus,” featuring the music of David Bowie.
Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.
In 1970, he founded London’s Young Vic, an adventurous “people’s theater” — the Who took the stage at one point — before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on “What to Wear” in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.
Naples, Fla., and Milwaukee are quite different, but have one thing in common: They are home to regional theaters that are thriving.
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.
