A Downtown Vibe Comes to Broadway This Spring
Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like "Becky Shaw," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Giant" are getting a chance to shine.
Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like "Becky Shaw," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Giant" are getting a chance to shine.
Kathleen Chalfant, Elizabeth Marvel, April Matthis and other actors deliver top-notch performances in a play that leaves questions unanswered.
The Tony winner returns to the stage in "Every Brilliant Thing," an interactive monologue with a message of hope "that might be vital for somebody to hear."
The choreographer has a busy spring: early works at the Guggenheim's swirling rotunda, a new appointment at Gibney Dance and a robust program at Bard.
Theater for a New Audience's reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy misses an opportunity to engage the play's many echoes with our own tense era.
Fifty years ago, Junior LaBeija couldn't afford to see André De Shields in "The Wiz." Now, they're starring together in a reimagining of "Cats."
Other picks include the National Theater's "Inter Alia," a successor to the acclaimed "Prima Facie"; Anne Gridley's "Watch Me Walk"; and a Jodi Picoult stage adaptation.
Milo Rau's examination of the infamous broadcast that preceded the Rwandan genocide is onstage now. Two other works, including "The Pelicot Trial," arrive in March.
The chameleonic actor takes on several characters in David Cale's solo play about a writer in pursuit of his stalker. Or is it all in his mind?
At the heart of Daniel Fish's verbatim staging of a C-SPAN segment is a complex relationship, between Larry Kramer and Anthony Fauci, that "goes from 'I hate you' to 'I love you' and back."
Ngozi Anyanwu's searing two-hander follows a brother and sister who train in boxing, side by side.
Taylor Stanley debuts as Carabosse, the glamorous, evil fairy in "The Sleeping Beauty." He is the first male-identifying person to take the role at New York City Ballet.
In Alexander Zeldin's naturalistic adaptation of "Antigone," Tobias Menzies and Emma D'Arcy star as a feuding uncle and niece.
The musical, called "Galileo," will star Raúl Esparza, and is scheduled to open in December at the Shubert Theater.
TikTok is the new home for musical theater fans who want to put themselves in the action. Viral re-enactments of four big numbers show why.
Gaulier often insulted his pupils, but many became stars, including Sacha Baron Cohen, Emma Thompson and Rachel Weisz.
American tap greats collaborating with kathak dancers discover how to communicate through rhythm.
Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty, the stars of the new musical "Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)," meet for a stroll one blustery afternoon.
He's most commonly recognized for his screen roles as a plotting hit man and an unlikely Lothario, but it's his work as a playwright that shows more of his true self.
At New York City Ballet, Alexei Ratmansky exposes the current moment with a political satire based on "The Emperor's New Clothes."
A revival of a 1964 musical, which puts a supernatural spin on a Noël Coward play, features a starry cast: Andrea Martin, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale and Katrina Lenk.
The final New York performance will be July 26, seven years after it opened; international and touring productions continue.
A new London production of the playwright's masterpiece has extra poignancy just months after his death.
Ten actors wear the crowns in Karin Coonrod's production, which is rich with twilight revelation, at La MaMa in Manhattan.
She was a ubiquitous presence at London theaters and claimed to have inspired the name " and final words " of Tennessee Williams's Blanche DuBois.