151 stories by "Jennifer Schuessler"
The boxer's one-man show will begin a 36-city tour in Indianapolis in February.
On Thursday, after the three-hour onstage slugfest that is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," some 40 therapists and their companions will stay in their seats at the Booth Theater for a short…
The provocative playwright will develop a series about the first black president of a prestigious liberal arts college.
The playwright Thomas Bradshaw talks about "Job" and his other plays, which have impressed some audiences and outraged others.
Gerard Alessandrini is once again feasting on theatrical spoils, shaping his latest spoof, "Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking!," which anticipates fodder from shows opening in the fall.
Ballet, music, dance, theater and more will be part of the Guggenheim's Works & Process lineup.
The more than 30-event season at Pace University will also include an appearance by the Romanian gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia, a "banjo summit" featuring Bela Fleck, and a tribute to W…
The closing represents a commercial failure for the show, which has never came close to cracking $1 million a week in ticket sales.
David Birrell was injured when a replica revolver he was wielding misfired onstage during a performance of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion."
Originally commissioned by the Steppenwolf Theater, the one-act will play three days as part of the London Literature Festival.
Hailed as a bright spot in the much-maligned musical, the actor will take on an other villainous Broadway role in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Roundabout Theater Company.
The sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer is the subject of a new play by Mark St. Germain.
Two panels at the Public Theater wrestled with whether New York was still a nurturing home for artists.
The French singer said health problems were not the reason for the shows' cancellation this week.
The items include letters by Washington and a map of Walden Pond drawn by Thoreau.
Farrar Straus and Giroux has commissioned a biography of the legendary theatrical portraitist Al Hirschfeld, who died at 99 in 2003, to be written by Ellen Stern, author of a 1987 profile of…
Some 50 theater companies plan to contribute five cents from every ticket sale to help bolster Off-Off-Broadway.
A curator at the New York Public Library minutely analyzes the floppy disks left behind by Jonathan Larson, creator of the mega-hit musical "Rent.''
Red Bull Theater Company doing American premiere of Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Pirandello's "Henry IV," and has moved it to a bigger stage to accommodate anticipated demand for one-night r…
Richard Dawkins, the prominent zoologist and atheist, just can't stand 'White Christmas."
"Because of Winn-Dixie" musical gets its canine star and his trainer as part of creative team.
The Council on Foreign Relations bought all the seats in the house for a performance of J. T. Rogers's play "Blood and Gifts."
And there were a whole lot of those books.
Green-Wood Cemetery is both stage and setting for "The Spoon River Project," an adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology."
David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, "The Pale King," may be unfinished, but it is still 548 pages long. Fortunately for busy Wallace fans, some shorter bits of Wallaceana have been popp…
