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When a car pulled up, it felt like a bright moment of luck, but then the driver got out and pointed a gun at me.
The three-time Tony winner discusses her new play "The Roommate," alongside Mia Farrow, and bringing Aubrey Plaza"her castmate on "Agatha All Along""to a "sort of theatre boot camp."
Also: The intuitive rap of Mavi, New York City Ballet's new season, Jackson Arn's top Prospect Heights spots, and more.
With their deranged portrayal of Mary Todd Lincoln, the actor and writer emerges from the "gay shadows" in a hysterical farce.
A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.
The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber's juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.
The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood's "The Welkin" exorcises the jury-room drama.
In the playwright's début film, "Janet Planet," Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter"and everyone else"over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires.
Samm-Art Williams's "Home," on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi's "What Became of Us," at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.
The actor reflects on his journey in reverse: from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.
The theatre director Rachel Chavkin is known for unconventional hits such as "Hadestown." Why did her latest Broadway project fail to catch on?
Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes's "Player Kings," Benedict Andrews's "The Cherry Orchard," and Ian Rickson's "London Tide."
What's happening this season in art, theatre, music, dance, and movies.
Paula Vogel's "Mother Play," Shaina Taub's "Suffs," and Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
David Adjmi's cult-hit play features seventies-inspired rock songs by Will Butler, while Eddie Redmayne presides over a demonic version of the Kit Kat Club.
A hit British production of Shakespeare's ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.
The survivors of the deadly 2017 London fire speak in a theatre piece opening at St. Ann's Warehouse.
The Wooster Group gives the Richard Foreman play "Symphony of Rats" its signature spins.
The sui-generis trans actress inspired works by Warhol, Lou Reed, and others, yet never broke through to the mainstream herself. A new book captures the brilliant persona she created.
In her musical opening on Broadway, Keys tells a story very much like her own life"but don't call it autobiographical. Plus, Rhiannon Giddens on the Black roots of country music.
The 1993 musical's already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend's beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff's reanimation for Broadway.
A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov's masterpiece in twenty years.
The "White Lotus" and "Sopranos" star discusses his formative first encounter with Martin Scorsese, his philosophy of acting, and the climate protest that just disrupted his Broadway début.
Also: The soft-rock palette of Arlo Parks, the tearjerker musical "The Notebook," Eric Fischl's paintings of bourgeois cocoons, and more.
Sister Margaret McEntee inspired the play "Doubt," by her former pupil John Patrick Shanley. Her fellow Sisters of Charity went to see the Broadway revival.
