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Miet Warlop's work is visually breathtaking, but there are deep questions to ponder beneath the showy surfaces.
In the first year of his second term, President Trump has made sweeping efforts to influence the arts and media in America.
As TV's go-to maniac, the actor has a flair for chaos that also functions as a kind of emotional armor. "I'm still very protective of the actual me," he said.
Michael Gordon and Richard Foreman's "What to Wear" at BAM is a visually rich, textually odd work " and a hot commodity.
Musicians, theater groups and others from overseas are facing visa challenges and rising costs, posing a looming crisis for the performing arts sector.
January is not a dry month for performance in New York, and this season, there were wide-ranging views of how bodies " more than words " can tell stories.
The immersive adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is a hit, with some people coming back a dozen times since it began performances last summer.
Ballet evolves slowly, and that includes footwear. But a new shoe with sneaker technology is giving dancers support from the heel up.
She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.
Everyone expected "The Kholops," a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.
City Winery's 50th anniversary screening of the film encouraged some inventive dress up, including tributes to fan favorites like Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
Erica Schmidt's discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.
The oldest dance troupe in the United States decided not to perform at the Washington venue during its nationwide tour.
Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show "Eat the Rich."
He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of "Company," "Titanic" and "Six Degrees of Separation" and numerous film and TV appearances.
"Sons of Echo," in which standout male dancers perform work by women, proves that male choreographers don't have a monopoly on bad taste.
Other picks include "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and "Lazarus," featuring the music of David Bowie.
Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.
In 1970, he founded London's Young Vic, an adventurous "people's theater" " the Who took the stage at one point " before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on "What to Wear" in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.
Deborah Warner, known for directing theater and opera, succeeds Pierre Audi, who died last year. Her own work is expected to be part of her programming.
The play, about a man who spends decades on death row before being exonerated by DNA evidence, will have a 16-week run this spring.
The company revived and revised a work that juxtaposes formal movement with a sound score that incorporates recordings of the 1979 White Night riots in San Francisco.
Audiences can embark on a very different type of theatrical experience in a new play at the Shed, blending the physical world with digital content.
As a journalist, I thought I'd never join the ranks of obsessive superfans " until I suddenly became one.
