223 stories by "Joshua Barone"
Joe Mantello's Broadway revival, starring Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, was inspired by a draft with notes by Arthur Miller. Here are some of them.
Deborah Warner, known for directing theater and opera, succeeds Pierre Audi, who died last year. Her own work is expected to be part of her programming.
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
Icke dusts off the classics the way a restorer brightens an old master painting. His latest project stars Mark Strong and Lesley Manville.
Kevin Carillo dreams up an unlikely combination, with results that are delirious and often persuasive, but also excessive.
At Little Island, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is starring, and singing, in Charles Ludlam's "Galas," a love letter to Callas.
The musical theater titan left behind material from beloved shows like "Sweeney Todd" and "Sunday in the Park With George."
Watch and listen to recent highlights, including Nicole Scherzinger on Broadway, a pair of Janacek operas and Cécile McLorin Salvant.
The Fisher Center at Bard has announced a wave of works by artists including Suzan-Lori Parks, Courtney Bryan, Barrie Kosky and Lisa Kron.
Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's pioneering "Love Life" was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.
As Burgess prepares to step in to the hit Broadway comedy, he thinks he should have "spent more time at the gym."
One of the busiest stage directors in Europe is fully arriving, at last, with "The Threepenny Opera" this spring.
A revival called "Show/Boat: A River" joins a history of reimagining the musical that goes back nearly a century, to its first performances.
The Doris Duke Theater, more than twice as large as the original and designed for modern technology, will open in July.
Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim's longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of "A Little Night Music" that deserves more than a concert.
American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor's "Woolf Works," which evokes elements of three novels and the writer's biography, to New York.
As part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of "Cats" unfolds as a ballroom competition.
Zack Winokur, an ambitious dancer-turned-director, now has a New York stage to call his own as the park's artistic leader.
Cole Escola's play, which imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated cabaret singer, surprisingly pulls off stretching a stupid joke to its extremes.
Matt Ray is a prolific songwriter and the musical nexus of New York's alt-cabaret scene. His next project: Taylor Mac's latest marathon performance.
Richard Nelson's "Our Life in Art" has been translated into Russian and French. Both times required, above all, preserving a specific sensibility.
Sondheim was a titan of musical theater. But four recent shows onstage in New York argue for his place among classical music luminaries, too.
Feats, farewells and musical treasures in a year of post-pandemic financial pressures.
Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.
The staged premiere of her new work "Indra's Net" in Amsterdam comes as a set of recordings offers a retrospective of one of our most humane artists.
