'Initiative' Review: High School as an Epic Struggle
A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.
A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.
The Norwegian National Ballet was nervous about taking a new work about a Sami uprising to the area where the historical event took place.
The Netflix and Broadway actor will be treading the boards alongside 'A Quiet Place's Noah Jupe
Adult actors play fierce middle-school spellers in a wonderful revival of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's musical.
This new revival, starring Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and Aaron Tveit, is a reminder why the erratic yet rewarding show has endured all these years.
This month's picks include a ravishing Nyong'o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff.
The 'One Day' star plays a young professor whose addiction to violent pornography online makes for confronting real-life viewing
The Oscar winner takes on a lovely yet tricky role in a Stephen Schwartz musical that never made it to Broadway back in 1976.
Since Giuseppe Verdi put music to the story of the 1852 play "La Dame aux camélias" by Alexandre Dumas fils, giving voice to "La Traviata" and the doomed Violetta, t his grand opera has ins…
Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.
The Off Broadway shows "Hannah Senesh," "Jewish Plot" and "Playing Shylock" take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.
Drew Droege's newest play Off Broadway is a lot like his others, skewering the entitlement of wealthy, oblivious gay men in Manhattan.
This movie adaptation has a couple of laughs, but could have been better served by expanding its reach.
Tom Hanks returns to New York theater alongside Kelli O'Hara, and Ariana DeBose leads "The Baker's Wife," a cult musical.
For its gala, New York City Center revives an antic show about a half-man tabloid sensation, with catchy music and lyrics by the versatile Laurence O'Keefe.
Dancing to the beat of lapping ocean waves, performers from across the world came to New York City this week to try to become a part of the legendary Royal Caribbean entertainment group. Aud…
Bess Wohl's play, about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio, transfers to Broadway where it remains powerfully moving " and funny.
Almost three decades after Harewood made history as the National Theatre's first Black Othello, he is stepping back into the role. Annabel Nugent meets him and his co-stars over steak and sa…
From the banked seating, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Bingham Theatre audience members hesitantly began to sing the 1929 song "Happy Days are Here Again" with coaxing from the onstage char…
This firebrand guitarist pulled songs from his lesser-known catalog for "Revolution(s)," about family of activists, now playing in Chicago.
David Cale's astonishing one-man show in Brooklyn erects some familiar signposts before swerving into the unexpected.
Like "Stranger Things" and "Harry Potter," this horror film franchise is branching out with an original story that aims to pull the rug from under theatergoers.
This month's picks include Clooney's Broadway run as the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and an audio play starring Hugh Jackman.
Jen Tullock's Off Broadway play, "Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God," delves into growing up in a Christian family.
Most of us have a venue we love " a theater or concert space " where we really feel at home. But what do you do if that place goes through radical changes?