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A new tenant with dance-world credibility signed a 20-year lease for the 36,000-square-foot space at 280 Broadway: choreographer Gina Gibney, founder of Gibney Dance.
Jeff Jampol sees to it that stars like Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Tupac Shakur stay in the spotlight.
Cate Blanchett will return to the New York stage this summer for the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival, the event's director Nigel Redden said.
E.L. Doctorow connected these disparate images to create the protagonist of his novel, a cognitive scientist named Andrew, as well as a strange, serpentine story.
From the humorous to the personal, the actor's songs run the gamut at shows at 54 Below, a basement club on 54th Street.
No expense was spared in the Metropolitan Opera's opulent new production of Johann Strauss Jr.'s "Die Fledermaus," yet it never quite bubbled with the light-as-air effervescence that this ch…
Good humor seems to roll off the stage in great, generous waves of joy in Chicago Shakespeare's lovely production of 'The Merry Wives of Windsor.'
Jessie Mueller channels Carole King in a new Broadway musical opening Jan. 12.
Julian Fellowes talks about his creation as season four of Downton Abbey is set to air in the U.S.
'TYSON vs. ALI,' BrÃan F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing as Irish farmers in 'Outside Mullingar' and Chita Rivera.
Unconventional casting in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Die Fledermaus" is granting rare opportunities to a handful of singers.
Nico Muhly and Pekka Kuusisto at (Le) Poisson Rouge, the opening of the Metropolitan Opera's 'Die Fledermaus' and more in this week's Classical Scene.
Behind the scenes over the past 12 years, the administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg has acted as an incubator for cultural institutions, using City Hall to support private, not-for-profi…
"La Soirée" pulls together street and circus performers, burlesque acts, clowns, puppeteers, acrobats and comics into a night of offbeat theater.
Opera singers' voices, like ballerinas' feet or runners' knees, don't last forever. So some singers, the soprano Martina Arroyo among them, embark on second acts.
The Wall Street Journal's theater critic Terry Teachout looks at the best of the year on stage.
Two nonfiction books crossed our desk this fall that felt especially entwined with the gossip that most people are embarrassed to admit they most enjoy about New York's social circuit.
Is there any reason why live theater can't be given the same 'artisanal' marketing spin as the fashionable 'farm-to-table' restaurants?
To find the six other cast members for "What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined," the show's producers needed to find performers who could not only sing and move well onstage, but who also…
The number of children attending Broadway shows has been growing over the past several decades. In 1980, 400,000 children under 18 attended a Broadway show. By last year, that number had nea…
Number of children attending Broadway shows has been growing.
In Michael Grandage's production of Shakespeare's history, Jude Law proves himself a mature, reflective actor.
Local theater productions of 'August: Osage County' multiply in wake of new Weinstein film due Dec. 27.
New York City Opera will not be immediately allowed to return ticket fees to customers who paid for performances later canceled or to pay severance to full-time employees who lost their jobs…
Cirque Éloize, experimental theater at BAM, a solstice celebration at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and more in this week's On Stage.
