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With her family troupe — and later as a solo star — she performed balletic, gymnastic tricks in circuses and theaters, at fairs and on television.
Bubba Weiler’s new play about two altar boys at a crossroads includes several beautiful performances, even when the line between sweetness and treacle blurs.
After recovering from a life-threatening stroke, a fame-hungry musical comedian contends with a worse fate: She might just be average.
The Royal Shakespeare Company called off five preview performances of the epic four-hour production last week, including one just hours before its scheduled curtain.
The musical, set to begin previews next March, is an adaptation of the 1984 film about a musician whose talent is threatened by tumult at home and at the club.
A new production at Barrington Stage Company reminds us of how the “singular sensation” changed our relationship to performance.
Tim Foster is a shoe colorist for New York City Ballet, an unexpected but, thanks to a new documentary, no longer unsung hero who practices a delicate, painstaking art.
Over 40 years after his breakthrough at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the actor tackles Chekhov and the Bard in two productions that subtly resonate with his own story.
An August Wilson classic wouldn’t exist without a Romare Bearden masterpiece. Here’s how the two are intertwined.
At 71, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard have aged into a married-couples acting tradition that Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn began.
The director Brett Sullivan gives viewers the best seat in the house, with delicate camerawork that moves with the rhythms of Anaïs Mitchell’s soulful score.
Summertime is a ripe time for terror. Our horror expert picks a night at the drive-in for a slasher double feature, an amble through a cemetery and more.
Eustis has been the Public Theater’s artistic director for 21 years, stewarding Free Shakespeare in the Park, nurturing “Hamilton” and navigating the coronavirus pandemic.
Hugo Marchand, an étoile at Paris Opera Ballet, brings his intensity and some high-wattage friends to New York City Center’s Artists at the Center.
Concert versions and touring productions keep the spirit of 19th-century French revolutionaries alive.
The company wrapped up its Met season of safe war horses with multiple debuts and a slew of promotions, including the onstage appointment of three principals.
This year’s Avignon Festival has transformed into a staging ground for protests, defiant new works and some early 2027 presidential campaigning.
“Broad Strokes” recounts this singing comedian’s medical emergency, juxtaposing “something brash and grotesque and humiliating with something completely heartfelt.”
As the summer heats up, here’s seven not-to-miss Off Broadway shows.
Our reporter, a lapsed dancer, got an intimate glimpse of the action in the American Ballet Theater’s production.
The actress Kerry Washington and the director Whitney White want to honor Goldberg’s theatrical legacy by revisiting her acclaimed portraits of humanity.
Morris’s dance troupe presents “Dances to American Music,” three programs at the Joyce Theater.
Des (Heather Agyepong) and Dre (Daniel Ezra), navigate a mutual magnetic pull in this British love story by Benedict Lombe at Cherry Lane Theater.
A stripped-back, cross-cultural reading with the Korean star Lee Hye-young at the Avignon Festival brought out a rare softness in the French actress.
A beautifully observed version of a man’s final act, along with a lively staging of “As You Like It,” engage the surrounding mountains in conversation.
