Broadway Set Designers on Their Appealing Sets by Laura Collins-Hughes and Vincent Tullo

Live theater summons energy no digital performance can match. Set designers for five of this season's plays explain how they built eye-catching environments that crackle with it.

Mariupol: Russia accused of bombing theatre and swimming pool sheltering civilians by Lorenzo Tondo In Lviv and Isobel Koshiw In Kyiv

Ukraine authorities say hundreds of people were hiding in theatre and that convoy of cars leaving besieged city was also shelled Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Ukrainian officials have a…

Intimate Apparel in the Archive by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Playbill for Intimate Apparel opera at Lincoln Center Theater​​​​​ Lynn Nottage is among the most important and prolific playwrights of the turn of the 2…

Ralph Ellison, Songwriter by Bob Kosovsky, Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Ralph Ellison photo portrait seated.  The author Ralph Ellison is inextricably linked to his novel The Invisible Man, now considered a classic of American literature. While his other ac…

Jerome Robbins Dance Division Coloring Books: Volume 12, Asian American Dancers (#danceincolor) by Arlene Yu, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Yeichi Nimura in his Flag Dance, c. 1939. Constantine © Constantine Hassalevris. Jerome Robbins Dance Division photograph files, call number *MGZEA (Nimura, Yeichi) no. 12. To mark A…

Invisible No More: Julian Work by Bob Kosovsky, Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Music Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Julian Work's union stamp for 1948. We in The New York Public Library's Music & Recorded Sound Division are doing what we can to uncover and bring attention to composers from und…

Jonathan Larson's Tick, Tick...Boom! in the Archives by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Karen Olivo in the Encores! Off-Center Concert of Tick, Tick...Boom! (Photo © Joan Marcus) Lin-Manuel Miranda's film adaptation of Jonathan Lars…

Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind in the Archives by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Photograph by Milton Meltzer depicting Hilda Haynes as Millie, James McMahon as Al Manners, Stephanie Elliot as Judith Sears, and Charles Bettis as John Neville. NYPL Digital Collections, Im…

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Honors the Legacy of American Composer Stephen Sondheim with Display of Personal Letters by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Stephen Sondheim. Photograph by Friedman-Abeles (Firm).  NYPL Digital Collections, ID: TH-51787   The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts honors the legacy of late…

Stephen Sondheim in the Archives by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

I've nothing to say. Well, nothing that's not been said. Any sentimental recounting of my memories of the few times I was lucky enough to interact with Stephen Sondheim would feel, to me, a …

Sherlock Holmes on Stage by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: TH-50730 This month, A Sherlock Carol, a new play featuring Sherlock Holmes and the characters of A Christmas Ca…

Celebrating Composers of Color in the Circulating Scores Collection at the Library for the Performing Arts by Anthony McDonald, Librarian/specialist Ii, Music Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Works  acquired for the circulating collection by Tania León, Alvin Singleton, Jeffrey Mumford, Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, and Florence Price In our continuing efforts to…

Caroline, or Change in the Archives by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Sharon D. Clarke and Samantha Williams in Caroline, or Change (Photo © Joan Marcus) There are certain Broadway seasons in which any of the shows nominated for the Best Musical Tony Awar…

Stephen Sondheim's Assassins in the Archive by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

(Animation from photos by Martha Swope) The superstitious might, with some evidence, argue that when a major New York production of Assassins is announced, it's time to get very nervous. Th…

Company in the Archive by Doug Reside, Curator, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For The Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center

Elaine Stritch in the original Broadway production of COMPANY. Photo by Friedman-Abeles. NYPL Digital Collections, Image ID: 58155824 In a December 1, 2021 piece inThe New York Ti…

Best Theater of 2021 by Jesse Green, Maya Phillips, Laura Collins-Hughes, Scott Heller, Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Digital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child's first fireworks.

For a Broadway Torn by a Pandemic, a Split-Personalities Tonys by Jesse Green, Elisabeth Vincentelli and James Poniewozik

The streaming part of the ceremony actually did a better job conveying the electricity of being in a theater than the CBS special billed as "Broadway's Back!"

How Indonesian Young Creative Workers in Yogyakarta Stay Productive Amid the Pandemic by Oki Rahadianto Sutopo, Annisa R Beta, Arian Utomo, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto, and Novi Kurnia

Danastri Rizqi Nabilah, a filmmaker from Yogyakarta " a city in Indonesia known for its education and art " has no choice but to sell snacks after losing up to 40% of her income during the p…

Building Bridges: Interweaving Beckett " Brazil and Poland by Ronei Vieira Nogueira and Robson Corrêa De Camargo

Máskara " the Transdisciplinary Research Center in Theatre, Dance, and Performance " is an artistic and academic collective founded in 2002 in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. It is linked t…

Local arts groups, venues and promoters finally receiving pandemic grants by Jeremy Reynolds and Scott Mervis / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Something wicked this way comes: the Lord Chamberlain's Men on tour " photo essay by Chris Wiegand Photography and Interviews By David Levene

The outdoor theatre company will cover more than 12,000 miles this summer, visiting more than 60 venues. Guardian photographer David Levene joined the Macbeth road trip The Covid-19 pandemic…

Charles Robinson, who played court clerk on long-running 'Night Court,' dies at 75 by Staff Reports and News Services

Mr. Robinson was a prolific stage actor and had supporting parts in series such as "Buffalo Bill," "Love & War," "Home Improvement," "The Game" and "Hart of Dixie."

China's Communist Party Turns 100. Cue the (State-Approved) Music. by Javier C. Hernández and Joy Dong

A wave of nationalistic music, theater and dance is sweeping China, part of Beijing's efforts to improve the party's image and strengthen political loyalty.

Clarence Williams III, who starred as Linc on 'The Mod Squad,' dies at 81 by News Services and Staff Reports

He also received a Tony nomination and appeared in Lee Daniels' "The Butler."

Watch David Hare read new satirical poem about Boris Johnson " video by David Hare, Noah Payne-Frank and Charlie Phillips

Playwright David Hare has written a new poem, Agony Uncle, about Boris Johnson's handling of the coronavirus crisis. Written in the tradition of 18th century satire, the poem castigates t…

Paul Ritter, British actor in 'Chernobyl' and Harry Potter franchise, dies at 54 by News Services and Staff Reports

He also received a Tony nomination in 2009 for "The Norman Conquests."

The reopening long shot by John Stoltenberg and David Siegel

It's been quite the terrifying year for us connected to the performing arts. An absolute scary time that began in mid-March 2020 as theaters went dark, lit only by their ghost lights. And no…

'You can smell the sweat and hair gel': the best nightclub scenes from culture by Peter Bradshaw, Claire Armitstead, Keza Macdonald, Simran Hans, Ammar Kalia, Lanre Bakare, Lyndsey Winship, Alexis Petridis, Arifa Akbar, Aniefiok Ekpoudom and Jonathan Jones. Artist Interviews By Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Writers and artists including Róisín Murphy, Tiffany Calver and Sigala on the art that transports them to the dancefloor during lockdown There have been many notable nightclubs in film…

Eleanor Reissa, Allen Lewis Rickman, Avi Hoffman, More Star in MEGILLAH CYCLE by Vi

Following its inaugural production of THE DYBBUK, The Congress for Jewish Culture will continue its International Virtual Yiddish Theater series with a stream of MEGILLAH CYCLE, premiering F…

Seattle restaurants and arts and culture institutions are hoping for a big boost in latest round of COVID-19 relief by Paul Roberts, Tan Vinh, Brendan Kiley and Michael Rietmulder

Tucked inside Congress' latest round of small-business relief is some rare good news for restaurants, hotels and the performing arts " sectors that have been especially hard hit by COVID-19 …

How the Spectacle of British Pantomime Looks From Across the Pond by Alexis Soloski and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Thanks to streaming, two American critics got to binge a bunch of the holiday extravaganzas. So how does this silly British tradition translate?