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Join in a 'Social DisDance' party, or try one of writer Paula Vogel's 'recipes' for creating a new play.
McNally, who passed away this week from complications related to the coronavirus, had a hand in changing theater forever.
Sure, Shakespeare wrote 'King Lear' while quarantined, but did he ever go live on Instagram? No.
After you've finished streaming some favorite musicals or plays from the comfort of your home, consider these ways of supporting out-of-work actors and theaters that have been forced to clos…
The 'Hamilton' creator phoned into Jimmy Fallon's 'At Home' edition to share how he's been occupying his time.
Tracy Bennett turns to dark comedy in Martin McDonagh's' 'Hangmen,' a far cry from her Tony-nominated last outing on Broadway playing Judy Garland in 'End of the Rainbow.'
'The Lion King,' 'Frozen' and 'Aladdin' have seen Broadway ticket sales plummet as families cancel plans over fear of the coronavirus spread.
'I hope that watching the everyday lives of an American family can help break the stereotypes. Maybe we can see life on the border through a different lens.'
This spring on and Off Broadway, the best shows are revivals and memory plays, presenting a window into the past"and maybe also the future.
An exhaustive guide to the best art, theater, dance, opera books, movies and TV coming in spring 2020.
Ali Stroker made history in June when she became the first actor who uses a wheelchair to win a Tony. That was just the beginning.
Ruth Negga's must-see turn as Hamlet is so fresh, capturing an essential quality of the melancholy Dane that too many others have lacked.
Laughs are abundant and a good time is guaranteed.
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale face off in a modern rewrite of the Greek tragedy at BAM.
Even if you like the easy, predictable clichés of dysfunctional family comedies, this is very boring theater.
The one-woman show gives her a chance to access a darkness she can't often show in her films.
An uprising that starts in a small Massachusetts town takes over the country in Richard Maxwell's 'Queens Row.'
To salute even more of the great work we've seen this year, here's our honor roll of the most influential firms in the performing arts industry.
Based on John Carney's '80s-set film from 2016, 'Sing Street' makes a leaden, uninspired Off Broadway debut.
'The Thin Place' is a welcome appearance of Hnath the creepy fabulist, the haunted magician who revels in the uncanny and liminal.
An obscure German drama about guilt and mob mentality is the latest play to take on the test of filling the Armory's massive space.
'Harry Townsend's Last Stand' takes a serious subject and dusts it with humor.
Diablo Cody weaves the songs of Alanis Morissette's 1990s megahit into jukebox musical that tries to harness the power of its source material.
Writer and HIV/AIDS educator John MrDargh and his husband, Tim Dunn, reflect on Matthew Lopez's epic two-part play, and what a new generation of LGBTQ activists now face.
For the team behind Classical Theatre of Harlem's modernized Dickens' classic, it's personal.
