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2,426 stories from The Wall Street Journal

City Opera in Most Dramatic Struggle

New York City Opera will cancel the rest of its season and could fold entirely if it doesn't raise $7 million by the end of September.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:41pm on September 8, 2013

N.Y. City Opera Warns Its Season is in Jeopardy

New York City Opera will cancel the rest of its season and could fold entirely if it doesn't raise $7 million by the end of September.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 8:08pm on September 8, 2013

Dance School Works to Get Back on Its Feet

Covenant Ballet Theatre of Brooklyn had become a beloved part of the Gravesend community when the loss of an important donor and the aftereffects of superstorm Sandy sent the nonprofit balle…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 8:37pm on September 6, 2013

Clock Is Ticking on Tomorrows for 'Annie'

The Broadway revival of "Annie" will see its last tomorrow on Jan. 5.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 8:33pm on September 6, 2013

The Globe Theatre Visits Gotham

A Broadway double header of "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" features actors Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry as well as original Shakespearean practices"including men in corsets.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 2:25am on September 6, 2013

New York's Hot New Playwright: The U.S. Supreme Court

A new play uses a 1991 Supreme Court argument to debate the pros and cons of public nudity.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 1:43am on September 6, 2013

Those Other Danish Guys

Rare is the opportunity to see Shakespeare's "Hamlet" played in repertory"and by the same cast"as Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 1:41am on September 6, 2013

Master Builder

Out of the woodpile, harpsichords of great musical beauty.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:19pm on September 4, 2013

The Teeming 'Tempest'

The performers in Lear deBessonet's production of "The Tempest" include a five-piece Balkan brass band, 12 Mexican folkloric dancers and a 32-person gospel choir.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 7:47pm on September 2, 2013

Lee Child Meets the Beatles

What the Fab Four did for the suspense author.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:26pm on August 30, 2013

A Wisconsin Tragedy

Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" isn't a masterpiece, but stage it naturalistically with a pinch of understated imagination and you can't miss. American Players Theatre's production scores big …

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:55pm on August 29, 2013

Supreme Court Justice Joins a Tenor's Tribute

A tribute to the late, great tenor Richard Tucker was under way at Juilliard when the panelists, led by soprano Renée Fleming, stopped while Ruth Bader Ginsburg made an entrance.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:44pm on August 29, 2013

In Concert at Queens' Greek Theater

Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons, ahead of the band's concert at Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, talks about playing nontraditional venues, British tennis fans and the next album.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:12pm on August 26, 2013

Seeing Where the Imagination Ends

"The Two-Character Play" by Tennesse Williams is the kind of theater that sound designer Daniel Kluger says "forces me out of my comfort zone."

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:31pm on August 26, 2013

The Greatest Shows on Earth Grow Up

Circus technique has been evolving in ways that are increasingly connected to the performing arts, Pia Catton (begrudgingly) writes.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:35pm on August 25, 2013

'Eccentric Genius' Performs

Carol Channing has long been a talent of outsize proportions, and her cutting humor will serve her well in a coming Fire Island performance with Justin Vivian Bond.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:58pm on August 22, 2013

For Summertime, a Chilly Comedy

"Absurd Person Singular""the play that put Alan Ayckbourn on the international map and perhaps sums up the playwright most completely"is getting its best staging in recent memory at the Pete…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:48pm on August 22, 2013

The Year of Macbeth Overload

With a recent run by Alan Cumming and productions in the works starring Ethan Hawke and Kenneth Branagh, "Macbeth" is becoming a near-constant presence in New York City.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:40pm on August 21, 2013

Manhattan Theater Readies Return to the Silver Screen

Backers of the United Palace Theater in Washington Heights are betting that if they build a silver screen, people will come.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:30pm on August 21, 2013

Wendy Whelan, 'Restless Creature'

New York City Ballet's principal dancer performed duets created for her from outside the world of ballet"with mixed success.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:21pm on August 20, 2013

Branagh Booked for Macbeth

Kenneth Branagh will make his New York stage debut in 2014, but don't look for him on Broadway: His "Macbeth" is heading to the Park Avenue Armory.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:16pm on August 20, 2013

Early End for Beatles Broadway Tribute

It's been a hard day's run on Broadway for the Beatles tribute show "Let It Be," which will have its last performance Sept. 1.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:21pm on August 19, 2013

Giving Back, Theatrically

Books about management are quick to extol the virtues of mentoring. But can any of them match the verve with which Jack O'Brien discusses, in his memoir "Jack Be Nimble," his immersive appre…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 8:56pm on August 18, 2013

'Spider-Man' Goes On After Injury

"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was flying again on Friday, a night after a dancer was seriously injured during a performance, bringing the show to a halt.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:36pm on August 16, 2013

Shaw Festival Brings Out the Best in Maugham

Somerset Maugham's plays are all but forgotten in America. But at Ontario's Shaw Festival, the crackling satire "Our Betters" is being staged so well you'll wonder why it hasn't been seen on…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:07pm on August 15, 2013
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