Alvin Ailey Company to Get $10 Million Endowment to Fund Top Job
The gift from Daria Wallach, a retired leader in the financial services industry, is to endow the company's artistic director.
The gift from Daria Wallach, a retired leader in the financial services industry, is to endow the company's artistic director.
Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?
Opera Philadelphia's latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond.
The actor Harry Melling shed his image as Harry's cruel cousin, Dudley Dursley " and his clothes " to star in the queer romance "Pillion."
"There's so much in the pomp and circumstance and the rules of the world that comes through dance," said Tom Verica, a director of the Netflix series.
A new work by the director Lorraine de Sagazan looks at a high-profile case that will soon be heard in a French court.
In David Cale's "The Unknown," the actor plays 11 characters including a writer suffering the horrors of writer's block and an unraveling mind.
"The Naked King," based on "The Emperor's New Clothes," debuts Thursday. "I've been dealing with what I've been experiencing in life and in the news," Ratmansky said.
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Two traditions, military dance and a game resembling Simon Says, make drill team distinct in Utah.
Sean Hayes performs a new solo thriller, Alia Shawkat leads a play revival and Ethan Slater stars as Marcel Marceau in a world premiere.
Personal history emerges by painful degrees in "Oedipus," whose language and story, the actress Lesley Manville says, "wreck me every time."
A Disney fan who once "flew" off his couch as a 4-year-old Peter Pan, he was a co-director of the animated film and a co-writer of the Broadway musical, both of them megahits.
Peck's "The Wind-Up," set to the first movement of the "Eroica" symphony, doesn't rise to the challenge of the music but is refreshing in other ways.
She watched the movie as a teenager, now the star of "School Spirits" and "Cobra Kai" is playing the acid-tongued queen bee Heather Chandler onstage.
An apprenticeship program that passes on skills like Cambodian dance is persevering despite funding threats and ICE agents.
"Irrationalities," at the Joyce Theater, disappoints only if you are expecting Soledad Barrio, the company's world-class dancer, who is out with an injury.
Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of "A Doll's House," a "Macbeth"-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small.
Judy Collins, Mandy Patinkin, Renée Fleming, Michael R. Jackson, Melissa Errico, Tony Kushner, Sherman Irby and New York Times writers and editors pick 14 songs to seal the deal.
"Watch Me Walk," "Ulysses" and other offerings from Under the Radar and the Exponential Festival engage with personal histories and the works of literary lions.
"The Outsiders" is the first new musical to open since 2022 to become profitable.
In Matthew Libby's play, a brilliant young computer programmer finds himself at the center of one of the most contentious issues of the moment: immigration.
The Indigenous choreographer Cameron Fraser-Monroe is taking his ballet on tour, "back to the place where the story was kept."
Broadway, Hollywood and television have been kind to Marc Shaiman. But there's a reason the subtitle of his new memoir is "Showbiz Stories From a Sore Winner."
The curtain is about to come down on two jukebox musicals, a thriller by Tracy Letts, and other Broadway productions.