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Jennifer Simard talked to us about her Tony nomination for 'Company,' making Stephen Sondheim laugh, and stepping in for a Covid-stricken Patti LuPone.
Pride is packed with official and not so official celebrations of queer culture and life, here is our art-focused events guide for June.
Don't get overwhelmed with the busyness of summer, we have curated a list of events in New York City for the first half of June.
David Threlfall shines as "the second most famous hangman in England" in the five-times Tony nominated Martin McDonagh play "Hangmen."
Playwright James Ijames adapts Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' to modern North Carolina following the drama of a family-owned BBQ restaurant.
"I walk off stage for intermission with a breast pump on, and I go straight to my dressing room where I pump underneath my fake breast pump."
An ambitious play, 'Golden Shield' attempts to weave Chinese censorship law, political dissidence, and family drama, to varying success.
"I'm sad to see how much of it has come true," says actor and playwright Tracy Letts of his Broadway one-act about a small town city council.
The former 'Suits' star put his fear (and his clothes) aside to make his Broadway debut.
At Pershing Square Signature Theatre, 'A Case for the Existence of God' takes a direct look at the lives of seemingly very different men.
At Longacre Theatre featuring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, director Sam Gold takes on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Incoherent yet star-studded.
As she's honored with the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award, Deirdre O'Connell talks about the joys developing new theater pieces Off-Broadway.
Mickey Rowe, actor and author of 'Fearlessly Different,' talks about autism, Broadway, and how ableism impacted his career.
Whatever charm exists in 'Mr. Saturday Night' is due to Mr. Crystal, but even he needs proper material.Â
At Lyceum Theatre, a production of 'A Strange Loop' pulls audiences in as it tackles coming into your own as a Black gay man.
In its first card campaign on a national tour in twenty years, Actors' Equity files with the NLRB to unionize 'Waitress.'
The 1942 allegory returns to the stage with Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and star Gabby Beans at Lincoln Center Theater.
The new production of 'Funny Girl' knocks your socks off before the intermission. By that time, the star's hidden magic has hit you squarely in the heart in ways you didn't see coming.
Beanie Feldstein turns the story of Funny Girl from the rising up and wising up of a great, if troubled, trouper into the wish-fulfillment fable of a moderately gifted young lady.
Martin McDonagh's 'Hangmen' features Alfie Allen and David Threlfall in a story that explores the abolishment of hanging in 1965 England.
The relevancy of the material is still stark, even 25 years after it was initially staged.
You will probably leave Tracy Letts' 'The Minutes' with very mixed feelings, but you will talk about it, think about it, and go away with the knowledge that you have never seen anything like…
The director's modern 'Cyrano de Bergerac' trades the prosthetic for a metaphor. "If the nose is in the imagination, then everything else is in the imagination. It really puts the emphasis o…
Running at BAM with James McAvoy playing the titular role 'Cyrano de Bergerac' is a beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire.
It's 'The Boys in the Band' with pool toys, as a group of gay friends converge on Palm Springs equipped with wigs, gossamer frocks, and freshly honed zingers.
