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It was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions.
Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel's latest family drama.
The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
A new musical aims to restore the reputation, in life and art, of the ambitious yet undervalued painter Tamara de Lempicka.
A dance performance of "The Other Side" and a musical adaptation of "Show Way" head to the Brooklyn stage for young audiences.
If Fiasco Theater has mixed results in its production of this Shakespearean tragicomedy, it celebrates actors supporting and delighting in one another's work.
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
The British actor excels at playing reserve, and what roils beneath, on "The Crown." And now he brings that stoicism to "The Hunt," onstage in Brooklyn.
"She saved my career," Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter.
With "Mean Girls," "Wonka" and "The Color Purple," why have studios spent much of their marketing budget downplaying and disguising their movie musicals?
Countless nights spent reviewing plays informed Here in the Dark, a novel of psychological suspense in which critical faculties are essential to solving a real-life drama
My first profession…
No longer at the Public, the annual celebration of experimental theater disperses 17 productions across the city. About half are international works that are getting harder to import.
There is something for everyone, even the kids, in "Mind Mangler," "The Magician" and "Mario the Maker Magician."
At 21, he already has two Broadway leads under his belt. On Thursdays, he sheds Marty McFly's signature vest for a bowling shirt.
The show, which toggles between the 17th century and the early 21st, arrives on the island on which it is largely set.
The extraordinary within the everyday: A holiday season rite returns with aerialists, trapeze acts, funny clowns (really!) and cotton candy too.
"Dead Letter No. 9," "Cocktail Magique" and "Hypnotique" are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife.
The Off Broadway production opened at the McKittrick Hotel in 2011, and helped to alter and expand the landscape of immersive theater.
Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.
"I walk into a show and everybody's kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, 'Oh, but you're so nice,'" the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.
The festival of experimental work is planning a citywide event at multiple venues in January, after the Public Theater declined to fund the 2024 iteration.
Tuesday's finale of "Only Murders in the Building" wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.
The festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.
"What the theater gives me is the feeling that I'm using everything," the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.
