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Three workers at a towering Manhattan tourist attraction watch for visitors intent on self-harm in this new play by Brendan George.
A farmer, poet and musician, he revitalized contra dancing in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing the tradition to a new generation.
Copeland, the retired ballerina was the first Black female principal of American Ballet Theater, curates a two-week festival at the Joyce.
Geno Segers was set to join the production with an all-new principal cast in September.
Every Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman” has its distinguishing features. Willy Loman’s Chevrolet is a powerful character in the latest production.
He played Salvatore Bonpensiero, a mobster’s foot soldier turned F.B.I. informant known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the celebrated HBO series.
Bridget Everett, Patti LuPone, Alex Moffat, Ben Folds and Michael R. Jackson are all slated to perform on New York City stages this month.
His dreamlike, expressionistic style influenced the vividly theatrical works of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, an early collaborator.
Hannah Waddingham is a rare British actor to beat a path from musical theater to the screen.
Boy George’s manager said he was pulling the singer from a role in “Jesus Christ Superstar” in “the best interests of my artist.”
At the Joyce Theater, Philadanco! premiered a new dance of civic pride by Rennie Harris that’s oddly muffled.
Catch these Tony Award winners and nominees before the curtain comes down on them for a final time.
At the height of the psychedelic era, he guided the very vocal San Francisco Mime Troupe’s pointed satire of American militarism, racism and bourgeois values.
In this month’s picks, a portrait of a jazz musician, a French archival family film and an Alabama prison exposé using footage from inmates.
As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Savion Glover, Honey Balenciaga and other artists from the world of performance share their favorites, from era-defining musicals to art-house dramas.
The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.
The creative team behind a revival of the rock musical celebrating teenage love and angst turned to open auditions as they cast the show.
With her family troupe — and later as a solo star — she performed balletic, gymnastic tricks in circuses and theaters, at fairs and on television.
The British pop duo Wham! was the first Western act of its kind to play mainland China. This documentary reveals the hidden agenda of the shows.
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.
