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Page-filling blocks of strong words are unfurled in this campus drama, as playwright Itamar Moses articulates"passionately and eloquently"each side of weighty issues of the moment, from Isra…
The "And Just Like That..." and "Gilded Age" star talks about playing a performance artist (and seven other roles) in the Off Broadway show "The Seven Year Disappear."
In 'Spamalot,' Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer pays homage to"or shamelessly satirizes"pop icons. "They change every night," she says. "I do a little Celine Dion"although there are some people who …
Set 22 years from now " as climate change has doomed the bees and thus humanity " this high-concept play mixes sci-fi with black comedy.
This musical about a fabulist at a magazine draws on the Stephen Glass scandal of the '90s, but it's more than a bit of stretch itself.
"I learn more about directing while acting and more about acting while directing," says David Cromer, who directed 'Prayer for the French Republic' on Broadway and is currently appearing in …
Set entirely at group therapy sessions, this 80-minute exploration of psychodynamics and healing may leave you wishing for characters with more interesting problems.
Foster generates waves of zany ecstasy in this delightful concert version of this fractured fairytale for City Center Encores.
In 'Maestro,' Michael Urie played choreographer-director Jerome Robbins. He now finds Robbins' spirit haunting the rehearsal spaces at New York City Center, where he's performing in 'Once Up…
The performance metaphorically and physically draws us into the many strands of a multifaceted quest.
The London stage version of 'Stranger Things' is a prequel with impressive practical effects that provoke gasps and screams, and producers say it's Broadway bound.
A Jewish family " shaken by a recent rise in European antisemitism " uproots itself in Joshua Harmon's passionately argued play.
After playing the devil himself in 'Hadestown,' Patrick Page keeps it on the dark side with 'All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain'
"I've got this idea for a musical, and I wondered if you wanted to work on it with me," Sondheim said to David Ives. Thus began the collaboration that resulted the adaptation of two Luis BuÃ…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's slow-burning satire of white privilege arrives on Broadway in an impeccable production with a dream cast, led by Sarah Paulson.
This jukebox musical alternates passionate renditions of Afro-Cuban son, danzón, and bolero with scenes in English that chart the lives of musicians across four decades of love and loss.
"My character didn't exist a year ago," Broadway veteran Chip Zien says of his role as the Rabbi in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's long gestating musical. "It's a real gift."
'How to Dance in Ohio' was clearly made with love, but this musical adaptation of an HBO documentary about autistic people learning to dance tries to balance good intentions and razzle-dazzl…
Using music, dance, puppets, miming, and physical comedy, the Happenstance Theater brings late medieval paintings to life.
Mary Kathryn Nagle's play shifts between the Dutch colonization of Manhattan and the subprime mortgage crisis, a concept that looks good on paper but diminishes the characters and their choi…
'Translations' is the first of three Brian Friel plays that Irish Rep is staging this season. "It has a kind of politics, but it's so embracing of human life," director Doug Hughes says.
Part juke-box musical and part feel-good empowerment fable, this musical from Alicia Keys hungers for a home on Broadway.
"You can't cheat with Sondheim," says Gerard Alessandrini of the song spoofs in 'Forbidden Sondheim: Merrily We Stole a Song.' "I try to make the rhymes correct"and still be funny."
In the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.
Packed with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…