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Milo Rau's examination of the infamous broadcast that preceded the Rwandan genocide is onstage now. Two other works, including "The Pelicot Trial," arrive in March.
The chameleonic actor takes on several characters in David Cale's solo play about a writer in pursuit of his stalker. Or is it all in his mind?
In Alexander Zeldin's naturalistic adaptation of "Antigone," Tobias Menzies and Emma D'Arcy star as a feuding uncle and niece.
Ten actors wear the crowns in Karin Coonrod's production, which is rich with twilight revelation, at La MaMa in Manhattan.
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?
"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.
Erica Schmidt's discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.
"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.
The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch's "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes" and Jen Silverman's adaptation of "Creditors."
Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.
Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.
New productions of Shakespeare's "Richard II," Annie Ernaux's "The Years," Robert Icke's "Manhunt," Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie," and more.
Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk try to close the deal in David Mamet's classic, and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage.
Also: Rachel Syme on the latest in charms, the Chicago rapper Saba, turtle races in Bed-Stuy, Caspar David Friedrich paired with Schumann, and more.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and "The Trojans," a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.
The Australian actress, best known for her work on "Succession," brings all twenty-six characters in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to Broadway.
What's happening this season in music, theatre, art, dance, movies, and television.
Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.
In two new shows, the Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning star and F. Murray Abraham play against their younger selves.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.
In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne's iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a famously monstrous stage mother.
This year's standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.
Two scathing new productions satisfy our hunger for dysfunction-driven entertainment.
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven't seen since.
