More than 50 boxes of ephemera from the playwright and director’s career include notes on “Angels in America” and research for “Jelly’s Last Jam.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32AMThe Off Broadway nonprofit will embrace risk, said Patricia McGregor, its leader, favoring fresh over established works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMThe Tony Award-winning actress said in an Instagram post that she had decided to share the news to remind people “that there is no shame in this kind of loss.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMLarissa FastHorse is making her Broadway debut with a satire about a socially conscious show that doesn’t go as planned.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMActors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actress Adrienne Warren, was postponed indefinitely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PMThe show’s star, Ben Platt, said the “ugly and scary” display was a reminder of why they are retelling the story of the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman in Georgia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:23PM“Between Riverside and Crazy,” Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Pulitzer Prize-winning script, is set in a rent-controlled apartment that was inspired by the playwright’s own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe choreographer Robert Garland will take over next year, succeeding Virginia Johnson, who was appointed by Arthur Mitchell, the company’s co-founder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PMAfter a pandemic hiatus, dancing under the stars has returned, uniting old friends and acquaintances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:39AMShe’s landed her dream role in “Funny Girl.” Now she’s tasked with rescuing the faltering Broadway show and proving that she is not the person she once was.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMDanni Gee, a former Alvin Ailey dancer and SummerStage festival curator, will program the dance-dedicated Joyce Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe actress, who covered for Beanie Feldstein, gets the part to herself for the next month, and Broadway fans are thrilled for her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThe horsemen, courtiers, stablehands and other performers at ye olde New Jersey tourist attraction formed a new kind of medieval guild when they voted to unionize.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMCatherine Hurlin and Roman Zhurbin will join the company’s highest rank, as will Daniel Camargo, who first started performing with the company last month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMThe former “Glee” star will share the stage with Tovah Feldshuh, who will replace Jane Lynch as Fanny Brice’s mother, starting Sept. 6.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe actress announced on Instagram that she would be leaving the musical at the end of July, two months earlier than previously announced.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMLast year, the 12-foot-tall Syrian girl trekked from Turkey to Britain to find her mother. This fall, she’ll visit all five boroughs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThe singer and actress was added as a producer of the show as it transitioned to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33PMThe ballet star discusses what’s next in his first interview since he won his job with the company back after a nude photo sharing scandal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMThe actor had been hankering to get back to Broadway after last appearing there in the 1990s. “Hangmen,” for which he received a Tony nomination, gave him that chance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMAlison Leiby had just performed her show “Oh God, a Show About Abortion” when she learned of the leaked draft opinion showing that the court could be on the verge of overturning Roe v. W…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMAbi Stafford Lillo left City Ballet amid a family feud and a dispute over whether a choreographer had body-shamed her or she lacked the strength to dance her final role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AMWith their award for “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical,” two musical theater newcomers won against veterans like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Schwartz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMBack from the brink of extinction, the Off Off Broadway fixture is testing a new structure that gives artists the autonomy they demanded.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMHarrison Ball, Jovani Furlan and Peter Walker were elevated to replace a trio of retiring — or soon to retire — dancers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMBefore leading her first Broadway musical in “Paradise Square,” she had long deferred to others in the rehearsal room — until she realized how much she has to share.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33AMThe influential dance festival is returning to its indoor theater after the pandemic complicated the last two seasons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMAfter the pandemic pause, nearly 130 costumes had to be remade for a cast that’s older and taller. Built in? Ways to adjust them back down in size.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM“I would ask you to sit back and luxuriate in his extraordinary words and music,” the director John Doyle said before Friday’s performance of the “Assassins” revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AMAudra McDonald, Bernadette Peters, Andrew Lloyd Webber and others mourned and celebrated the essential composer and lyricist, who died at 91.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMA post in a family Facebook group led an actor and a musician in the Broadway musical to discover that they are distant cousins.
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