"Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" is based on the life of groundbreaking artist, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and her relationship with the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette. The DC area premi…
No one show swept this year " and it turns out, that's a good thing.
A live musical TV special featuring "Wicked" movie stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande singings songs from the Universal Pictures film is set to air on NBC this fall. The "Wicked" special …
Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What's helped it last so long?
A new novel, "The Butcher's Daughter," imagines the haunting past of Mrs. Lovett, the infamous baker who assisted the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
Broadway isn't just back " it's raising the bar. Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending tied for most nominations. Plus, nods to George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger…
There's a moment in Netflix's behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of the streamer's new "Stranger Things" play in which the majority of a conversation between the play's director …
In a new book, the Broadway photographer Jenny Anderson captures the craft and camaraderie of making theater.
Eddie Izzard Welcomes Us to Hamlet's World by Jennifer Charron Full disclosure: I'm the ultimate Eddie Izzard fan girl from the 90s. I've worn out more than one DVD of "Dressed to Kill" and …
The Lamentable Comedie ofJANE ANGER,that Cunning Woman,and also of Willy Shakespeareand his Peasant Companion,Francis,Yes and Also ofAnne Hathaway (also a Woman)Who Tried Very Hard This is a…
Itamar Moses & Gaby Alter Spoof Modern Love with Glamor & Glitz by Jennifer Charron Love them or hate them; or love to hate them"reality dating shows fascinate audiences across the g…
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life's work to share the richness of Iranian culture. "Song of the North," at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
The Paul Taylor Dance Company came to the Kennedy Center to celebrate 70 years of presenting innovative, modern dance. The program featured two of Taylor's own 147 dance compositions, "Arden…
Theater about current events " both literally and abstractly " is changing the conversation between playwrights, directors and their audiences.
A new show of drawings, notebooks, and scores by the avant-garde composer reveals the private practices and processes of over fifty years of genre-defying works. John Zorn: Hermetic Cartog…
Tim Firth's British Women Strip to Express Love & Hope by Jennifer Charron "Calendar Girls" tells the hilarious true story of the deep friendship among a group of Yorkshire women who ban…
Bunin & Rafaeli Translate Tween Suffering to Spectacular Staging by Jennifer Charron Showcasing the complexities of adolescence is an impossible feat. Yet playwright Keith Bunin and dire…
We must never forget. But what if forgetting is the only way to survive? That is the question that looms over Diane Samuels's 1993 play, "Kindertransport," about the suffering wrought on two…
SPOILER ALERT:Â This article contains spoilers from the series premiere of Hulu's "Paradise." In an overly saturated media market, it's hard for any show to break through. And it becomes e…
By Jennifer Skura Boutell, Luke Landric Leonard. Monk Parrots recently produced Gates Leonard's Pearls for Spurs, a new play about a dysfunctional family. The play was inspired by Gates's ow…
A kaleidoscope of media-dances and moving-image installations capture over fifty years of radiant, immersive, and collaborative works. Charles Atlas: About Time, installation view. Courtesy…
Lithuania's national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky's 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russia…
Visited by heavenly visions, Shaker women made "gift" drawings that functioned as instruments of spiritual inspiration. Anything but Simple: Gift Drawings and the Shaker Aesthetic, installa…
In two piercing works, the National Bunraku Theatre's puppets"floating, airy creatures weighted by earthly human spirits"explore the clash between duty and passion.