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Ballet Jörgen's holiday scare reaffirmed its mission: taking the art form to remote towns and outposts where most people have never seen a pas de deux.
Usually, holiday opera is scarce on major stages in New York. But this year, there are two at Lincoln Center alone.
She was a white actress, he was a popular Black entertainer, and their relationship elicited racist reactions in 1960, including from John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
An actor at the Dickens Museum in London is delivering dramatic performances of the classic holiday tale, just like the writer himself once did for sold-out crowds.
The lawsuit, against the prominent Off Broadway theater, is backed by Edward Blum, who has long challenged race-based policies. Playwrights called it "meritless."
Robert Redford, Roberta Flack, Diane Keaton and Brian Wilson are among the cultural luminaries who died this year.
An operatic Vivaldi pastiche, with a new story by Sarah Ruhl, offers an ambivalent message about how art can make people pay attention.
This year, "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" pays homage to the legacy of the group, but its future seems to be more about sisterhood than dancing.
The character actor had grown up in Maryland, where "The Wire" was set, and went on to star in horror films like "It Chapter Two."
At Greenwich House Theater, Greta Gertler Gold and Hilary Bell's stage adaptation of Joan Lindsay's novel hovers between reverie and reality.
Hosted by Ariana Grande and featuring Cher as its musical guest, the show had plenty of holiday tunes and a satirical greeting from President Trump.
Zohran Mamdani, New York's mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?
Yang has been part of the NBC sketch show since 2018, earning five Emmy nominations.
"I don't do drugs anymore," the actor and singer said, "but when a random baby in a stroller smiles at me, it feels like I just did a bump of coke."
The release of a "Spinal Tap" concert film that was filmed at Stonehenge has been delayed.
The couple are gearing up for the Broadway opening of "Bug," about a descent into paranoia and psychosis in a squalid motel room.
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln's wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
Two years after the assault, Marco Goecke is staging a nontraditional "Nutcracker." Ballet Basel hopes the focus will stay on his choreography.
An unlikely movie star in the 1990s, she has weathered ups and downs to find herself, at 55, as busy as ever. Next is a role in "Emily in Paris."
Will Arnett and Laura Dern add emotional heft to Bradley Cooper's intimate comedy about a separated spouse who finds solace in stand-up.
Jimmy Kimmel called the president's last-minute speech "a surprise prime-time episode of 'The Worst Wing' tonight on every channel."
He rose from poverty to become one of the Netherlands' most revered dance makers, creating more than 150 avant-garde works in a career spanning eight decades.
There is plenty of stimulation for young theatergoers in the Royal Shakespeare Company's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book.
Audiences are falling in love with the title character in "Paddington: The Musical." Bringing such a beloved bear to the stage was "a huge responsibility," the show's director said.
