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City University of New York on Tuesday kicks off a new effort to pair choreographers up with badly needed open space.
The Houston Grand Opera launches its first-ever "Ring" cycle with "Das Rheingold," which is more European high-concept than U.S. representational in style, with lots of eye-catching video an…
Bellini's final opera, 'I Puritani,' at the Met, Kojiro Umezaki on the shakuhachi, the MATA Festival and more in this week's Classical Scene.
The Portland, Ore. band is a favorite of music coordinators for TV shows like "Nashville" and "The Newsroom."
Fashion- and art-world people come out for choreographer Stephen Petronio's 30th anniversary season gala.
The book is funny, the staging inventive, the cast outstanding. All that's missing from Woody Allen's stage musical is a purpose-written score.
Ballet Hispanico's 26th New York Season kicks off on Tuesday, but guests at its gala earlier this week got a sneak peek of what's to come when thecompany performed an excerpt from 'El Beso,'…
Director Anna D. Shapiro helms a revival of John Steinbeck's male-heavy American classic.
BAM and WNYC are planning a festival featuring some of the U.S.'s most popular public radio programs, including "This American Life," "Radiolab" and "Wait Wait…Don't Tell Me," performed li…
Liza Lim's 'Mother Tongue,' an intricate piece for 15-member ensemble, will be performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble Columbia University's Miller Theatre.
The Backstage Pass column visits Alan Cumming, star of the latest production of 'Cabaret,' and learns that looking decadent is hard work.
Honoree Ruben Santiago-Hudson says he has been working nearly nonstop for 30 years, but 'it's only possible because of places like the Signature Theatre.'
After a 10-year collaborative friendship, Alex Waterman brings Robert Ashley's radically redefined operas to the Whitney Biennial just one month after the composer's death.
Ralph Gardner Jr. takes a night in Manhattan class to learn more about Shakespeare.
Zach Braff, Daniel Radcliffe and the Stephen Petronio Company in this week's On Stage,
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" played to packed houses last week, according to ticket-sales figures reported Monday by the Broadway League.
Few productions of "The Threepenny Opera" have been better sung or played than the one now being staged by the Atlantic Theater Company, but to get there the rough edges of this Bertolt Brec…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has tapped Tom Finkelpearl, the executive director of the Queens Museum, as the city's next cultural-affairs commissioner, according to a person with knowledge of the ap…
It was a big week for the lyricist and composer Frank Loesser. A production of his musical "The Most Happy Fella" opened at City Center and at Carnegie Hall, there was a one-night-only conce…
Scott Z. Burns has spent a career examining how people obscure the truth about themselves, a theme that runs through his work with Steven Soderbergh and takes center stage in his new play, '…
Marin Mazzie discusses the grueling path to starring in the Broadway musical 'Bullets Over Broadway,' based on the Woody Allen film and directed by Susan Stroman.
An alum of the YoungArts Foundation, Kate Davis, performed songs at Fifth Avenue's Henri Bendel on Tuesday evening while shoppers, including Drena De Niro, donated to the cause.
Circus tricks come easily to Valerie Benoit-Charbonneau, one of the leads in the immersive theater piece 'Queen of the Night.' What took some getting used to was looking at the audience.
Monday marked the latest edition of MCC Theater's annual Miscast fundraiser. What's nice about this event is it has a theme. Actors sing songs they'd never get to perform on a typical Broadw…
Estelle Parsons in 'The Velocity of Autumn,' Frank Loesser's 'The Most Happy Fella' gets the Encores! treatment, David Ives returns with 'The Heir Apparent' and more in this week's On Stage.
