She played the world’s coolest dance teacher and has had big success as an actor, director and choreographer, winning a Golden Globe, Emmys and an Olivier. Now, she is back on Broadway. Sh…
Acclaimed stage and screen actor has taken part in Washington DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library residency program during a troubling time for the CapitolAddressing an audience at the Folger …
Fauci was joined by actor Jesse Eisenberg and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer in reading for DC Climate WeekWhen Anthony Fauci put on a pair of sunglasses, the hall erupted in cheers and a…
The victories and tragedies of the famed British fashion designer make the basis of probing off-Broadway play House of McQueen "You have always made the most beautiful things out of absolute…
The theatre legend talks his feelings on Trump, the fall of the Kennedy Center and why he finds it hard to trust straight men Harvey Fierstein is sitting here bleeding to death, he announces…
A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC Mark Horowitz had done his homework before Ste…
The tuxedo-clad US president promised a 'golden era' for the US at his first Kennedy Center production in Washington "Do you hear the people sing? / Singing the song of angry men? / It is th…
Priyanka Shetty combines personal and political in #Charlottesville, a play that explores the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally She had moved from India to live the American dream. Priyank…
The president has demanded that the National Endowment for the Arts denies grants to projects promoting 'gender ideology', leading to protest and legal action "We now, as a community, have t…
The esteemed bipartisan cultural institution has fallen into the hands of the returning president leading to chaos, confusion and a celebrity exodus America's biggest annual gathering of con…
Manuel Oliver's son was murdered at school in 2018 and he's been telling his devastating story at theatres across the US Night after night, in a darkened room full of strangers, Manuel Olive…
The actor, known best for TV roles in Quantum Leap and Star Trek, plays the well-loved president in a one-man show Scott Bakula has just finished a noon student matinee. The audience include…
Created in 1968 and making groundbreaking strides, the organisation is looking to further expand Home is where the heart is but it also brought hardships for the National Black Theatre (NBT)…
The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world's biggest collection of the Bard's printed works When Owen Dodson cast Earle Hyman as Hamlet in a producti…
In her new play, based on WhatsApp correspondence, Sasha Denisova uses her 82-year-old mother Olga to tell a vital story of resistance and survival For a year Sasha Denisova didn't tell her …
The legendary playwright's humble beginnings and Pulitzer-winning career are explored in the first authoritative biography of him The host was Bill Moyers, former White House press secretary…
With audience attendance still down, many theatres across the US are struggling to adjust to a post-pandemic landscape In his four years as US president, Abraham Lincoln was said to have at…
Stephen Sondheim's darkly funny quasi-opera has been remounted as one of the year's biggest new productions If you seek Broadway's equivalent of Mount Rushmore, you could do worse than head …
Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical is set for its final performance in New York, leaving behind an intense fanbase He is used to having the worst seat in the house. Playing trumpet in the orc…
A slew of well-reviewed productions have closed with poor ticket sales while blockbusters dominate the market With ineffable talents and six Tony awards, Audra McDonald is box-office gold. B…
A splashy museum in New York pays tribute to the city's long relationship with theatre from West Side Story to Hamilton It is a patchwork of colour and craft, its 8in squares celebrating pro…
Jordan E Cooper became the youngest Black American writer to have a show on Broadway but Ain't No Mo is set to close after only 17 days It is the call that every playwright dreads. Jordan E …
A new stage production tells the stories of women and their bodily autonomy, or lack thereof, as part of the fight to reverse the supreme court decision to restrict abortion Theirs was a sec…
American Prophet, focusing on the abolitionist, orator and polymath, is the latest marker of a Douglass renaissance in popular culture For Kenneth Morris, sitting in a darkened theatre among…
After a successful reopening, Covid-19 has yet again forced many hit shows to either take a hiatus or close for good but industry insiders are optimistic At the curtain call, Hugh Jackman pu…