163 stories by "Jennifer Schuessler"
The musical, with its 126-member company and hundreds of costumes and props, is believed to be the only large-scale English-language production running anywhere in the world. And it has rema…
The musical's world tour, now in Seoul, weathered a cast outbreak to become perhaps the only major show running. Can theater learn from its example?
Jennifer Schantz, an executive at the New-York Historical Society, will lead the library, which is home to more than 8 million items relating to music, theater and dance.
The performer Taylor Mac and the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks have signed on to a video-sharing subscription service to raise money for New York colleagues in crisis.
Since its 1957 premiere, The New York Times has tracked the musical's evolution, covering its casting, its politics and its role in the Cold War along the way.
Will Arbery has brought the "secretive" world of Catholic intellectuals to the stage in "Heroes of the Fourth Turning." He's pleased to find that they appreciate being seen, not judged.
This year's fellows include artists, writers, scientists, urban designers, community activists and others who have demonstrated "extraordinary originality."
A scholar in England suspected annotations in a First Folio at the Free Library of Philadelphia were John Milton's, so he connected the dots with someone who had studied the work for a decad…
A series of readings at Classic Stage Company will present the fruits of a project that charged people with "translating" Shakespeare into accessible (and faithful) modern English.
Even his closest friends and colleagues marvel at how the director Daniel Fish has managed to stick to his vision " and even lighten up " while shepherding his dark take on the beloved music…
This year's American installment of the Night of Ideas will feature appearances by philosophers, musicians, artists and a puppet of Noam Chomsky.
The archive of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, traces more than 60 years in the theater, in the movies and at the front lines of social a…
An outdoor production that draws from the Hudson Valley community aims to unearths the strangeness in Washington Irving's classic story.
The Goodman Theater's five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel will be available for at least two years.
A puppet play by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes explores technology, freedom and inequality (and the lost rap version of "The Communist Manifesto").
"Prurience," a new immersive theater piece by Christopher Green, is set at a self-help group for pornography addicts.
After a discreet tug-of-war with the playwright's estate and Yale, the University of Texas has acquired the papers, including an "Aladdin's cave" of unpublished material.
Four of the contributors to the Princeton and Slavery Plays project talk about the hidden histories that inspired them.
The American Jewish Historical Society is facing charges of censorship after it canceled a play and a panel that had been targeted by right-wing activists
The MacArthur fellowship this year honors 24 artists, scholars, activists and others chosen for exceptional "originality, insight and potential."
The magician Derek DelGaudio has tried to keep his work invisible on the internet. Did another professional secretly film his show?
George Orwell's novel has led to adaptations and variations since its publication in 1949, including a coming Broadway version. Here's an overview.
A British adaptation of George Orwell's classic arrives on Broadway with Tom Sturridge and Olivia Wilde, bringing contemporary political resonance.
The 1901 script for "The Shadow of a Doubt" turned up in an archive in Texas, where scholars discovered it after noticing a cryptic reference to it in a letter.
