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In the hopes of shaking off years of financial turmoil, New York City Opera embarked on a controversial reboot of the company in 2011. The reboot didn't work.
The cast and producers of "The Glass Menagerie" celebrated their rave reviews on opening night.
Mandy Patinkin and F. Murray Abraham are getting to know each other as they play wily CIA rivals on TV, but as competitive performers, they're watchful: "It is sparring."
Rosie O'Donnell celebrated the 10th anniversary of her arts-education charity, Rosie's Theater Kids with a few minutes of adults-only stand-up.
The Russian president deserves to be taken to task for his country's antigay policies. But is the Metropolitan Opera the best stage for such protests?
Adultery, alcoholism, child abuse, homosexuality, incest and murder. William Inge wasn't merely daring but downright reckless to cram all these issues into one 1963 play.
New York City Opera's board voted to file for bankruptcy protection and dissolve the 70-year-old company if it doesn't raise $7 million by Monday, a spokeswoman said.
While the Metropolitan Opera's opening gala for Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" on Monday night was a glamorous affair, demonstrators gathered outside to urge stars to speak out on Russia's an…
Arthur Pita's adaptation of Franz Kafka's novella would remain another slick piece of dance theater if it weren't for Edward Watson, the Royal Ballet's principal dancer at the center of this…
The Metropolitan Opera's season-opening production of "Eugene Onegin" turned out to be a picturesque but tame affair, sparked only by the preshow activists protesting the show's diva and con…
In this week's Curtain Raisers, actor Michael Zegen opted to see Ethan Coen's "Women or Nothing," directed by David Cromer at the Linda Gross Theater.
"Romeo and Juliet" sees Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad starring as the star-crossed lovers in a slick, weightless assemblage of modern-dress trickery that never misses a chance to be obvio…
Tony Danza and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in "Don Jon."
The buzz around "Romeo and Juliet," opening Thursday on Broadway, is all about the casting of its movie-star Romeo, Orlando Bloom, and Condola Rashad, who is African American, as Juliet.
New York City Opera is betting the fate of this and next season on "Anna Nicole," a vulgar, exploitative and musically empty work.
Robert Lepage's "The Blue Dragon," the 2008 play he cocreated, directed and starred in as its central character, Pierre Lamontagne, opens Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
As the lethal, fast-healing mutant Wolverine in the "X-Men" movies, Hugh Jackman is no stranger to a fight scene. But in his new film "Prisoners," he had to portray someone who takes matters…
Anne Kauffman opted to see "The Phantom of the Opera," which is the longest-running musical on Broadway, and also, arguably, the one most likely to provoke eye-rolling among discerning theat…
Soprano Patricia Racette has made a career of second chances, including her latest, the title role in San Francisco Opera's "Dolores Claiborne."
The 88-year-old dance instructor known as Luigi is set to receive the New York Dance and Performance Award"known as the "Bessie""for lifetime achievement in dance at the Apollo Theater on Oc…
Downton Abbey's Daisy, Sophie McShera, plans to spend the season going to the theater with friends.
Former "True Blood" star Joe Manganiello brings rage to "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Yale Repertory Theatre.
With "The Old Friends," it's as if the playwright esteemed for his soft-spoken tales of small-town life took a look at Tennessee Williams' works and said, "I bet I could write that kind of p…
American Ballet Theatre soloist Misty Copeland, who is African-American, is helping launch Project Plié, a national initiative to be announced Friday that is aimed at boosting diversity wit…
This week's Jazz Scene: Festival of New Trumpet Music, Dave King plays the Village Vanguard and Sutton Foster takes over Cafe Carlyle.
