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"Antigone" gave us the original "bad girl," but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles' ideas about democracy and theater new?
The writer and actor found unexpected success by sharing his trauma. Now he's exploring male pain in a new way.
Daniel Radcliffe in "Every Brilliant Thing," "The Wild Party" and two Cold War-era comedy-thrillers: These are productions worth knowing about.
An adaptation has a twist that doesn't track, and songs that benefit from an excellent cast, including Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess and Adam Jacobs.
Two monologue revivals " Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote and Wallace Shawn's solo " reveal how wealth warps our perceptions. Only one pays dividends.
Britain has a storied history of sketch comedy, but its humor has a very different flavor than the American variety.
In its third season, the HBO satire grows from cringe-comedy character study into a dark satire of labor in the A.I. era.
"Let me tell you: There is no doubt in my mind that everything he knows about Pearl Harbor begins and ends with a movie starring Ben Affleck," Jimmy Kimmel said.
Encores! revisits a Jazz Age tale of debauchery, with showstoppers from Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Jordan Donica, Tonya Pinkins and others.
In a distinguished career in classical and contemporary plays, she drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for her dramatic portrayal of the French singer Édith Piaf.
Tamara McCaw, a longtime arts leader with experience at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, will lead it with a focus on stability.
Set in the Soviet Union in 1937, this investigative drama follows one man's mission for justice within a corrupt system.
A lonely gravedigger tries to Frankenstein love in Grace Glowicki's macabre queer romance.
A full-scale production of the Bengsons' deeply personal memoir musical is delivered via anthemic songs and remnants of home.
In guessing which ex-leader Trump might have discussed Iran with, Jimmy Fallon said "two things seem equally possible: Either Trump's lying, or Joe Biden doesn't remember talking to him."
David Ireland's satire follows a Hollywood actor whose cluelessness leads to a combustible confrontation.
The lawsuit objected to a "BIPOC night" program at Playwrights Horizons, an Off Broadway nonprofit.
Joined by Daniel Radcliffe, Groff stars in the hit Broadway production of the Sondheim musical. And there are (count 'em) three productions of "The Importance of Being Earnest" this month.
"School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play," written by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Whitney White, will start performances in September.
Is there anyone John Lithgow can't " or won't " play?
Given a list of 14 mismatches, they quickly picked Ben Platt in "Dear Evan Hansen." But they took issue (loudly) with one of our choices.
On the prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place," she played one of TV's first Black female antagonists. She was also a fixture in blaxploitation films.
Works by Soa Ratsifandrihana and Robin Orlin evoked Malagasy line dances and Zulu rickshaw drivers.
Ahead of a vote on whether to close the center for two years of construction, the president criticized its previous financial management and physical condition.
Jess and Morgs, the creators of weird and wonderful works that blur the boundaries between live performance and digital, have reached the big time: the Paris Opera.
