Even his closest friends and colleagues marvel at how the director Daniel Fish has managed to stick to his vision " and even lighten up " while shepherding his dark take on the beloved music…
This year's American installment of the Night of Ideas will feature appearances by philosophers, musicians, artists and a puppet of Noam Chomsky.
The archive of Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, now at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, traces more than 60 years in the theater, in the movies and at the front lines of social a…
An outdoor production that draws from the Hudson Valley community aims to unearths the strangeness in Washington Irving's classic story.
The Goodman Theater's five-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's mammoth, seemingly unstageable novel will be available for at least two years.
A puppet play by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes explores technology, freedom and inequality (and the lost rap version of "The Communist Manifesto").
"Prurience," a new immersive theater piece by Christopher Green, is set at a self-help group for pornography addicts.
After a discreet tug-of-war with the playwright's estate and Yale, the University of Texas has acquired the papers, including an "Aladdin's cave" of unpublished material.
Four of the contributors to the Princeton and Slavery Plays project talk about the hidden histories that inspired them.
The American Jewish Historical Society is facing charges of censorship after it canceled a play and a panel that had been targeted by right-wing activists
The MacArthur fellowship this year honors 24 artists, scholars, activists and others chosen for exceptional "originality, insight and potential."
The magician Derek DelGaudio has tried to keep his work invisible on the internet. Did another professional secretly film his show?
George Orwell's novel has led to adaptations and variations since its publication in 1949, including a coming Broadway version. Here's an overview.
A British adaptation of George Orwell's classic arrives on Broadway with Tom Sturridge and Olivia Wilde, bringing contemporary political resonance.
The 1901 script for "The Shadow of a Doubt" turned up in an archive in Texas, where scholars discovered it after noticing a cryptic reference to it in a letter.
Mr. Mac's "A 24-Decade History of Popular Music" will be performed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with abridged versions staged elsewhere.
The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va., is holding a contest to create a "modern canon" of 38 companion pieces to Shakespeare's plays.
A revival of John Guare's play "Six Degrees of Separation" opens April 25. His enduring title concept has hopscotched through pop culture.
Brian Doerries, the director of Theater of War, will use classic texts to explore violence, trauma and community at free events at 60 locations around the city
Mr. Mac's marathon "24-Decade History of Popular Music" was praised as "a vast, immersive, subversive, audacious and outrageous experience."
A newly announced scholarly collection will analyze, and chronicle, Mr. Mac's epic "24-Decade History of Popular Music."
Hundreds of manuscripts and letters held by Hamilton descendants for 200 years " some of them previously unknown " were sold at auction on Wednesday.
Before Sotheby's sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton's documents, the public is invited to take a look.
A trove of letters and other material held for 200 years by descendants of Alexander Hamilton will be auctioned by Sotheby's in January.
Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and Ashanti performed in "Hercules in Brooklyn," a drama by Outside the Wire, which uses ancient texts to look at modern problems.