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Two bidders hoping to revive the bankrupt New York City Opera are preparing to square off in court next week.
Stacy Sullivan honors Marian McPartland; Gordon Webster Meets Hetty Kate; actor Cheyenne Jackson at Café Carlyle; and more in this week's Jazz Scene.
A schnook loses his bride-to-be in a card game with a gangster in the stage version of 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' writes Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
In her new memoir, "Call Me Debbie: True Confessions of a Down-to-Earth Diva," opera singer Deborah Voigt offers backstage observations of diva behavior as well as details about her own stru…
The costume designer Brian Hemesath is making his Broadway debut with "Honeymoon in Vegas," a show where the over-the-top clothes are key.
L. Frank Baum's lost writings on the Tin Woodsman are told through puppetry in 'The Woodsman'; Reggie Watts in 'Audio Abramovic'; and the return of 'Between Riverside and Crazy' in On Stage.
Kristina Kapustinskaya in 'The Enchanted Wanderer,' the Ecstatic Music Festival, Offenbach's fantastical opera returns to the Met and more in this week's Classical Scene.
Latvia, with a population smaller than Queens, is the surprising source of three singers with coming performances at the Metropolitan Opera, and they aren't the only Latvians appearing on Ne…
A bride-to-be's ne'er-do-well ex-boyfriend shows up on her parents' doorstep on her wedding day in Lewis Black's 'One Slight Hitch,' writes Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
Susan Stroman celebrated her house debut in Franz Lehár's 'The Merry Widow,' and Handel's 'Saul' got a dramatic staging in Trinity Wall Street's Twelfth Night Festival.
The city's Department of Cultural Affairs is embarking on its first effort to measure diversity at the city's many museums and performing arts groups.
Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now, an experimental music festival, returns for the third year with brand new opera and music theater; cellist Zoë Keating plays SubCulture; and more in the Clas…
Scotland Yard gets a PR overhaul fit for the digital age in 'Babylon,' Sundance Channel's new show about craven politics, imbecilic law enforcement and media relations gone pear-shaped, writ…
Set in a theoretical reality of multiple universes, "Constellations" requires actors to mind the punctuation as if it were the word of God.
Libby King and Kristen Sieh star in a road trip whirlwind dominated by the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt and Marcus Youssef and James Long bring 'Winners and Losers' Soho R…
Broadway increasingly relies on celebrity casting, but this year, with Hugh Jackman, Emma Stone, James Franco and other A-listers on stage, theaters have been spending ever more time crackin…
New Year's Eve with Bargemusic or the Concert for Peace at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, plus Renée Fleming in 'The Merry Widow' in this week's Classical Stage.
For theater professionals looking for a refuge from the Broadway bustle, this Hamptons interior grants a full measure of serenity.
In the early years of rock 'n' roll, many of the most famous hits were churned out in a nondescript office building at 1650 Broadway.
It was a rough year for big-budget musicals, but the traditional stage play thrived in 2014.
Cafe Society was one of the first fully integrated nightclubs in the nation, featuring acts from Billie Holiday to Zero Mostel.
Rocker Sting stopped by the Wall Street Journal's WSJ Cafe and performed an intimate version of "The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance," one of the songs from his Broadway musical "The…
Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson star in Nick Payne's 'Constellations'; the Roundabout's stripped-down treatment of 'Into the Woods'; and more in this week's On Stage.
How Emma Peel, the glamorous, quick-witted and fearless secret agent played by Diana Rigg in "The Avengers," became a lifelong inspiration.
Cafe Edison, a Midtown Manhattan diner beloved by Broadway types and beyond, is closing on Sunday.
