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Mr. Bentley, who was also a playwright, was an early champion of modern European drama in the 1940s but had little use for American plays.
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As theatres around the globe were abruptly shuttered by the pandemic, with no clear path to reopening in sight, the world tour of "Phantom" has been soldiering on in Seoul, South Korea.
Exploring the season that was, and wasn't, and protests to remake the Great White Way. Plus Mary-Louise Parker and the casts of "Company" and "Six."
Some readers are primed to take their seats, masks on, but more are hesitant: "My love of theater is not so important to me that I risk dying for it."
Several theatres in Manhattan and Brooklyn announced that they would allow demonstrators into their buildings to use the restroom, drink water or charge their phones.
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…
Actors' Equity Association has barred its 51,000 members from in-person auditions, rehearsals and performances since April 24, and made clear at a news conference Tuesday that it is not read…
The actor's quiet intensity and mature sensuality made him a fixture of French cinema for more than a half-century
The fundraiser will feature the streaming of a benefit concert, recorded in November, in which 79 singers and dancers performed songs from Disney musicals, backed by 15 musicians.
Furious, despairing, yet inescapably entertaining, often in the very same show, featuring Chita Rivera, Nathan Lane and Zoe Caldwell, to name a few.
"The Rosie O'Donnell Show" returns for a night with streaming and the Metropolitan Opera will have a week of Wagner starting on Monday. Here is a list of digital content.
Manuel Liñán's "Viva!" represents something new to mainstream flamenco audiences: a frank and joyful expression of gay identity.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera are among other institutions that have suspended their programs. Here's a list of closures and cancellations.
The industry " central to, and symbolic of, New York " had for several weeks been hoping to avoid mass closings, which are likely to cost tens of millions of dollars to investors and workers…
The usher recently worked at two Broadway theatres, at performances of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," and British musical "Six."
Broadway's leaders say they are determined to keep their theatres open if at all possible, and anticipate that they would collectively close only if ordered to do so by a government agency.
Ms. Freni was acclaimed for her exquisite singing in lighter lyric roles. In midcareer, she also dared to explore weightier ones.
In some productions of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," the role of Tiny Tim goes to a child with a disability.
