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Ralph Gardner Jr. joins Complexions Contemporary Ballet"if only for a day.
Back on Broadway for the first time in nearly 20 years, Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" revisits the well-worn ground of despondent upper-middle-class suburbanites.
Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout reviews two Broadway shows: 'Side Show,' featuring conjoined twins and carnies, and 'The River,' with a hunky fisherman played by Hugh Jackman.
Bradley Cooper stars in 'The Elephant Man,' Joy Behar puts on a one-woman show, Dwight Rhoden choreographs two premieres and more in On Stage.
Three new potential stages are planned for Pier55, the $130 million, 2.7-acre park to be built on the Hudson River just off West 14th Street. But the arts presented there will be largely det…
Drunken nights and romantic dalliances could describe sleep-away camp for teens"or they could describe summers at the New York Stage and Film Workshop, which held its winter gala Sunday.
John Cleese, the former Monty Python star who released his memoir, 'So, Anyway...' earlier this month, regrets the loss of broader general knowledge that allowed for a wider variety of comed…
John Douglas Thompson, hailed as one of the best classical actors in the U.S. despite a relatively late start in theater, performs the title role in 'Tamburlaine, Parts I and II' at Theatre …
John Lithgow and Lindsay Duncan discuss executing the 'queasy' comedy of the Edward Albee play 'A Delicate Balance,' opening Nov. 20 on Broadway.
Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, will have a new name when its renovation, estimated to cost $500 million, is complete.
The Bedlam Theatre Company's productions of 'The Seagull' and 'Sense and Sensibility' create the most persuasive realism out of the sparest of means, writes Wall Street Journal drama critic …
Downtown Brooklyn cultural institutions generated more than $300 million in economic activity last year, according to a new report.
What do a ballerina on her pre-retirement tour, a German orchestra playing a centuries-old Mass and a firestorm of an opera have in common? Their runs have contributed to an unusually busy p…
With his Pulitzer-winning "Disgraced" on Broadway and another play, "The Invisible Hand," opening soon, Ayad Akhtar is having a busy year.
As the film of "Into the Woods" starring Meryl Streep approaches its debut, the original stage cast will reunite in California.
Vanessa Williams, Fred Willard and Norm Lewis make their New York Philharmonic debuts in the orchestra's production of "Show Boat," a far cry from its usual classical repertoire.
This one-of-a-kind Mexican folding screen draws on Asian, European and American influences and was used to gain favor with the Habsburgs.
Tom Stoppard's classic about marriage and monogamy, 'The Real Thing,' gets rough treatment in its latest staging.
The Broadway musical "Side Show" follows vaudeville stars and conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton through a life amid curiosities such as the Dog Boy, Reptile Man and the Human Pin Cushi…
Shirley MacLaine, 80, who is romanced by Christopher Plummer, 84, in 'Elsa and Fred,' wants to make even more movies for the senior set.
The Apollo Theater, seeking to add a jolt of creative adrenaline to its leadership, said Pharrell Williams will join its board of directors.
Also in On Stage: 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' and 'The Oldest Boy'
The splashiest Broadway opening to come 'round in some time was on Sunday, at the Neil Simon Theatre, for Sting's new musical 'The Last Ship.'
Playwright Tom Stoppard, whose 'Indian Ink' and 'The Real Thing' come to Broadway this fall, reveals the simple way his supercomplicated plots come to him.
"The Source," a multimedia operatic work that has its world premiere at BAM this week, incorporates text from WikiLeaks in its portrait of Chelsea Manning.
