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T. Troy Dixon grew up hearing stories about Harlem's Apollo Theater. Now he's helping to secure the organization's next chapter.
Fanciful, mysterious and full of cheerily broad comedy, here is a "Tempest" that will please both seasoned playgoers and novices who tremble at the mention of iambic pentameter. Also reviewe…
Actor Jerry O'Connell stars in a Second Stage Uptown production that opens on Thursday. His role in the off-Broadway play doesn't pay a lot 'but it's much more gratifying,' the former child …
Broadway actress Sutton Foster buys a Greenwood Lake house an hour from Times Square; no-fuss furnishings, a sky-blue bedroom and, eventually, the 'shack' next door"complete with a basement …
"Aladdin," a Broadway adaptation of the popular Disney movie, has been a success since its March opening, raking in more than $1 million a week and earning a Tony nomination for best musical…
The actress on her life as a supporting character (one benefit: no paparazzi).
The 'Frozen' soundtrack, released last year, was the No. 1 album for two months straight until this week. Why the music keeps on playing.
The Peccadillo Theater Company helps reclaim a fine play by William Inge that should never have slipped from sight, while Connecticut's Goodspeed Musicals presents "Damn Yankees""tweaked to …
Animator John Bair's visual aids give dimension to the title character of a Broadway hit.
William Inge's half-remembered plays are finally making a slow but sure comeback. Witness the Peccadillo Theater Company's new off-Broadway revival of "A Loss of Roses," which broke his four…
At American Ballet Theatre's spring gala on Monday night, there were gowns in splashy colors and high-energy dance, both onstage and at dinner afterward.
Pierre Rigal's 'Micro,' a scientific inquiry in Liz Santoro's 'Relative Collider,' Kim Rosenstock's new musical, 'Fly By Night,' and more in this week's On Stage.
The color scheme was black and white at New York City Ballet's spring gala. But the artistic theme was the past, present and future of ballet.
Terry Teachout looks at a Noël Coward classic.
Film star Anthony Wong launches his theater company with a Cantonese-language adaptation of award-winning Peter Shaffer play.
Walt Disney's film business was on fire last quarter thanks to "Frozen." Operating income more than quadrupled in the quarter ended March 29 to $475 million.
As labor negotiations with its singers union began, the Metropolitan Opera kicked things off by acknowledging an error: that it underestimated the impact of proposed work-rule changes on nin…
Sarasota Ballet's Frederick Ashton Festival last week presented four days of choreography by "the founding genius of English ballet," including rare works unfamiliar to even the most ardent…
The Metropolitan Opera is scheduled to kick off high-stakes negotiations on Monday with an unusually public standoff: Despite management's objections, the singers' union has invited members …
Barbara Cook, Denny Zeitlin, vocalist Kendra Shanka and more in this week's Jazz Scene.
Steve Buscemi toasted the Wooster Group at the company's gala earlier this week, along with Frances McDormand, Maura Tierney and others.
Part of what distinguishes the Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of "Henry IV" is the scrupulous care director Michael Kahn takes to get the story's proportions right.
In a Tony race with few clear-cut winners, Tommy Tune feted the cast of 'After Midnight,' up for best musical, at his apartment while other nominees were spotted at the Tony nominees meet-an…
Leading this year's Tony Award nominations: a charmingly homicidal Brit and a transgender rocker from East Berlin.
David Byrne's Imelda Marcos musical returns, the New York City Ballet presents three programs devoted to contemporary work and more in this week's On Stage.
