In her musical opening on Broadway, Keys tells a story very much like her own life"but don't call it autobiographical. Plus, Rhiannon Giddens on the Black roots of country music.
The 1993 musical's already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend's beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff's reanimation for Broadway.
A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov's masterpiece in twenty years.
The "White Lotus" and "Sopranos" star discusses his formative first encounter with Martin Scorsese, his philosophy of acting, and the climate protest that just disrupted his Broadway début.
Also: The soft-rock palette of Arlo Parks, the tearjerker musical "The Notebook," Eric Fischl's paintings of bourgeois cocoons, and more.
Sister Margaret McEntee inspired the play "Doubt," by her former pupil John Patrick Shanley. Her fellow Sisters of Charity went to see the Broadway revival.
Denise Murrell, in her exhibition on the Harlem Renaissance at the Met, captures the joy of her subject but not the complex humanism.
Theater of War Productions tries to create a dialogue about Israel and Palestine through the Iliad and "The Trojan Women."
Also: Catherine Opie's latest photographs, Hurray for the Riff Raff plays Williamsburg, and more.
Dominique Morisseau revives her 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
Rauch has been called the "nicest man in show business." Now he's trying to bring the spirit of community theatre to a building that cost half a billion dollars.
Essentially boom boxes on three wheels, the bicycle-drawn carriages are prompting theatre owners to push back.
Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.
Also: Helen Shaw rounds up experimental-theatre festivals, Parul Sehgal's novella picks, and more.
Susan Bay Nimoy restored an Art Deco theatre in L.A. and dedicated it to her husband, Leonard, whose Orthodox upbringing inspired his "Star Trek" tag, "Live long and prosper."
The actor, who played Sofia in the revival of "The Color Purple" musical on Broadway, reprises the role in a new film adaptation of the musical.
Also: New Year's Eve at the Met Opera, Noche Flamenca, Frankie Cosmos, and more.
On Broadway and off, a return to deep introspection"and Stephen Sondheim.
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets.
"Buena Vista Social Club," at Atlantic Theatre Company, and "How to Dance in Ohio," on Broadway, were adapted from documentaries, with varying success.