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No one multitasks quite like James Franco, who is making his directorial debut with 'The Long Shrift.' He also just released a book of poetry and his upcoming movies include 'Child of God.'
John Lithgow, Annette Bening and Jessica Hecht in Shakespeare in the Park's 'King Lear,' Julia Stiles in 'Phoenix' and more in this week's On Stage.
The ballet dancer David Hallberg portrays princes onstage but could easily be mistaken for plainclothes royalty offstage, too.
Matthew Aucoin, the Metropolitan Opera's youngest assistant conductor, wants to change how audiences feel about opera and classical music.
Review: "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" goes for high-concept staging at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
Elaine Stritch, a Broadway actress and singer whose career spanned seven decades, died Thursday morning at her home in Birmingham, Mich., at age 89.
Bill Bragin has some 130 acts booked for the two season outdoor festivals he oversees, Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors, whose concert programs begin Sunday.
Jazz in July at the 92nd Street Y, KT Sullivan & Jeff Harnar Sing Sondheim and more in this week's Jazz Scene.
Terry Teachout explains why opera needn't be bound for extinction.
Yaël Farber's new staging of "The Crucible" at the Old Vic lets what Arthur Miller wrote speak for itself, while Richard Bean's new satirical play "Great Britain" at the National Theatre …
David Poutney's staging of "The Passenger" was powerful in Houston. It's even stronger now in New York.
A look at three noteworthy ballerinas who will be onstage multiple times throughout the Bolshoi's Lincoln Center run.
Lorin Maazel, who died Sunday at the age of 84, was blessed with a long, fruitful career and enormous personal vigor.
Internationally renowned conductor Lorin Maazel, who led the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and among others abroad, died at his Virginia home.
The artistic director of the American Repertory Theater thinks theater should be more like a rock concert.
A revival of Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" so entertaining you'll wonder why it isn't a summer-festival staple.
The meter is running out on Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which for nearly 20 years has been staging free theater performances in a municipal parking lot on the Lower East Side.
Zofia Posmysz's years in a Nazi concentration camp inspired 'The Passenger,' an opera featured in this year's Lincoln Center Festival.
David Schwimmer's 'Sex with Strangers,' Lincoln Center Festival presents a retrospective of important works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and more in this week's Classical Scene.
In "Romeo and Juliet," Rosaline is Romeo's first and quickly forgotten crush, but she is at the center of "Searching for Romeo," the latest Shakespeare spinoff focused on a woman's perspecti…
Jed Bernstein, who took Lincoln Center's helm in January, talks about some of the surprising"and terrifying"moments in his early days on the job.
High school students from all over the country compete for the coveted 'Jimmy' award at the National High School Musical Theater Awards, nicknamed the Jimmys after James M. Nederlander, the …
A Wall Street Journal analysis of box-office data shows new productions spearheaded by the Met's general manager Peter Gelb have had mixed success.
The dance company takes its last bow at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
With the musical "The Last Ship," Sting joins a long list of rock stars attracted to Broadway.
