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The stars Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf talk with the show’s director, Joe Mantello, about the exhilaration of collaborating and the trap of sentimentality.
With “Proof of Life,” Kiyon Ross wants to make his alma mater, the School of American Ballet, proud — and the dancers feel special. That’s what he would have wanted.
The nonprofit Second Stage Theater said it would present a reimagined version of “The Fantasticks” and the Pulitzer finalist “Gloria” at the Helen Hayes Theater.
Caissie Levy was Broadway’s first Elsa. She starred in “Hair” and “Ghost.” And now, for “Ragtime,” she is an odds-on favorite to win a Tony Award.
A man was shot dead surrounded by witnesses in Skidmore, Mo., but no one was ever prosecuted. Now that act of vigilante justice has inspired the play “Kenrex.”
Scottish Ballet realized it needed to make its nation’s history a bit more explicit to take its “Mary, Queen of Scots” on the road. It comes to Lincoln Center this week.
John J. Caswell’s triangular romance set in the early 1990s speaks to us from the smoking psychic caldera left by AIDS.
Kids Dance, from the New York Public School for Dance, is debuting a work featuring alumni. That’s not the only way former students are involved with the school.
Billy Porter, Wayne Brady, Sting and Suzan-Lori Parks are all slated to star on Off Broadway stages this month.
A beloved member of Charles Busch’s Theater in Limbo repertory, he had an irrepressibly comic stage presence that masked a shy, tender disposition.
Danny Burstein, Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos will star in the Manhattan Theater Club production of Clifford Odets’s 1935 play.
Catherine Tate, Greek classics and plenty in between — here’s our selection of West End productions for Londoners and visitors to check out over the coming months.
This spring the talk-show host and his youngest child made simultaneous debuts, three weeks and eight blocks apart.
In their Off Broadway debut at Ars Nova, Xhloe and Natasha play two rodeo clowns, until the lights go out and the show takes a turn.
This production in the nation’s capital, with an enticingly opaque Iago, attempts to make Shakespeare’s tragedy relevant to our age of conspiracies.
A tall, commanding ballerina, she led one of the world’s top dance institutions for decades, though her rigorous methods eventually drew criticism.
In Eisa Davis’s new play with live music, at the Vineyard Theater, gifted teenagers find their own rhythms at a summer music program.
The Tony-nominated stars of “Fallen Angels” demonstrate how to act drunk onstage and have a hilarious hangover.
Olivia Book of Ballet West is one of the first professional ballet dancers to have a limb difference.
The satirical musical, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, missed 25 performances during the shutdown.
Jean Genet’s psychosexual drama gets a social-media-heavy update. But what does it say beyond “internet=bad”?
The unauthorized musical parody of the hit TV show gives the role of Scott Hunter to an unsuspecting audience member — and one recent night that was me.
Many of the top contenders are onstage right now. Here’s a guide to help you navigate the field and find tickets.
Decades after “The Emporium” failed to open on Broadway in 1954, one man went on a quest to find it.
The Tony nominee Alden Ehrenreich has been making audiences cry at this Broadway comedy in which he portrays a cynical money manager.
