ArtsBeat: Kathleen Chalfant to Portray Rose Kennedy in New Play
The play, by Laurence Leamer, focuses on the week following the car crash at Chappaquiddick involving Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The play, by Laurence Leamer, focuses on the week following the car crash at Chappaquiddick involving Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The season will be the theater's first under its new artistic director, Niegel Smith.
President Obama takes in 'Hamilton,' a hip-hop telling of Alexander Hamilton, on Broadway.
President Obama is expected at the Saturday matinee of "Hamilton," though he will not be seeing Mr. Miranda in the title role.
The director Daniel Fish's take on this classic includes an immersive element, but it also tries to stay true to the feel of the 1940s Rodgers and Hammerstein original.
A fund-raising event featuring short plays about censorship will proceed without Mr. LaBute's work.
The Sheen Center for Thought and Culture canceled a scheduled event because, its director said, a one-act play by Mr. LaBute maligned Muslims.
Political figures, including Clintons and Cheneys, have turned out to watch their "predecessors" onstage in the musical "Hamilton."
The Goodman Theater will produce an adaptation of Roberto Bolaño's novel, with funds provided by Roy Cockrum, who won a Powerball jackpot in Tennessee last summer.
Rimini Protokoll, a German arts collective, puts a new twist on the city walking tour. Make that "pedestrian-based live art experience."
A book tour of sorts for Shakespeare to mark the 400th anniversary of his death.
Ms. Deavere's talk, titled "On the Road: A Search for American Character," will include reflections on and excerpts from the documentary theater projects she began developing in the early 19…
The production will cap off the 50th anniversary season of Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis
Howard Sherman, a former executive director of the American Theater Wing, will head the new project.
The Toronto writer Sheila Heti's stalled drama-in-a-novel comes to life on the stage.
John Douglas Thompson and Aaron Clifton Moten to star in the dramatic reading.
"I wish I'd never written the story," Annie Proulx says of "Brokeback Mountain."
A first folio of Shakespeare's plays " one of only 233 known examples " was discovered by chance in a public library near Calais, France.
Mr. Sheen will direct and perform in Dylan Thomas's work -- he called it "a play for voices" -- on Oct. 26 at the 92nd Street Y.
John Lahr's biography "Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh" draws on a wealth of letters and journals to explore the synergy between his life and his plays.
Shia LaBeouf is charged with disorderly conduct and criminal trespass after disrupting a performance of "Cabaret."
A judge's ruling harshly rejected arguments from the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The playwrights David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage are joining the faculty of Columbia University's School of the Arts.
Mr. Rudd is to participate in a reading of "Letters from Einstein," a play by Alan Alda that will open the five-day festival in New York City.
The story "Crazy Night" recounts a college freshman's drunken misadventures on the last night of school, after the 1929 stock market crash.