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Billy Porter and Wayne Brady make a tender pair in Robert O’Hara’s revival of the Harvey Fierstein-Jerry Herman musical farce.
The “Law & Order: SVU” actress “was really scared” about starring in “Every Brilliant Thing.” Who does she look to for inspiration? The Knicks, of course.
Stearns, a longtime principal at American Ballet Theater, has stepped down. He talks about being pushed to leave and the pains and boons of growing older.
Anna D. Shapiro revives Eric Bentley’s play about the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation of the entertainment industry.
The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.
Sharleen Chidiac, a choreographer and the effervescent lead singer of Voyeur, looks at ambition and freedom in her hybrid new work: a punk musical.
Performers were tested by the unexpected during a ballet production in Turkey.
Thanks to a $50 million grant, a new festival has been born. Kyle Abraham helps to curate the first edition, which is part of the center’s Summer of Dance.
If you can’t make it to Shakespeare in the Park, check out a version starring Josh O’Connor. Other picks include Matthew López’s “The Inheritance.”
Tambores may not be as widely known as other Latin dances like merengue and salsa, but that is starting to change with the exodus of millions of Venezuelans.
The Knicks turned New York City into a stage, where movement is a catalyst for untainted happiness.
Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, “Sunday in the Park With George,” contains a song capable of making order out of mayhem. Listen to hear how he did it.
A co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company, known for its surreal productions, he also gave energetic performances as his alter ego, Martha Graham Cracker.
A performance artist, dancer, choreographer, videographer, filmmaker and curator, he was a central figure in the downtown Manhattan experimental arts scene.
Paul Lightfoot and Sol León brought their blend of stretched balletic line and idiosyncratic gesture to London with a new work inspired by daily ballet class exercises.
For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, the director Saheem Ali presents a strangely low-energy version of the tragedy.
The final curtain is coming down on two Tony Award-winning performances, a reboot of a 1980s musical and one of the best plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle.
Hunted by slavers, the abolitionist escaped briefly to Britain and Ireland. A new show at the Irish Arts Center combines his speeches with performances by local students.
The supernatural mixes with secular modernity, family dynamics and feminism in a new London production of “Under the Shadow.”
For her Broadway debut, the comedian hired a trainer, read lines with her daughter and, when she needed it most, was saved by improv.
After his 2014 musical failed on Broadway, the musician is bringing a revised version of it to the Metropolitan Opera for a limited run this week.
Since her mother’s death, Emma Dante has used the stage as a space to dive into her Sicilian roots — and the contradictions of family life.
New York City Ballet ended its season on a positive note with “Coppélia,” but the repertory tipped too heavily into unimportant ballets.
Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, shares her highlights of the Tony Awards on Sunday in New York City.
Many of the winning plays and musicals are still onstage, and some are closing soon. Here’s a guide to help you navigate the field and find tickets.
