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Williamsport, Mass. is far enough from New York to allow actors to take risks and sophisticated audiences to offer great feedback.
The controversial theater artist Mike Daisey is giving a series of 29 monologues called "All the Faces of the Moon" next month, the Public Theater said.
George Balanchine was distraught when a fellow dancer drowned in 1924. Did she haunt his ballets ever after? Mindy Aloff reviews Elizabeth Kendall's "Balanchine & the Lost Muse."
"Love's Labour's Lost," the second production in the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park lineup, drew a crowd of theater talents to its official opening on Monday night at the Delacorte…
Macklemore and Ryan Lewis play Central Park's Rumsey Playfield, and more in this week's Pop Scene.
A pleasantly fluffy and charming musical, "First Date" deserves much credit for trying to beat the Broadway odds.
Richard Eyre's new National Theatre production of Luigi Pirandello's 1916 "Liolà " is mildly amusing, but lacks cliché-avoiding imagination.
Though he got his start as an actor, this summer, the 62-year-old Broadway producer Stewart Lane is making an unexpected return to the stage in the Bay Street Theatre's production of "A Funn…
Celebrity casting on Broadway is by now routine, even if the publicity overshadows the performances. Theatergoers will soon see Orlando Bloom, Ethan Hawke and Frank Langella take their stabs…
"Matilda: the Musical" will soon have a new villain: Bertie Carvel is leaving the role of the child-hating headmistress Miss Trunchbull and will be replaced by Craig Bierko.
The passionate playgoer can never see too many productions of "King Lear." Here are two, by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, that couldn't be less similar.
"Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration With Warren Haynes" presents the music of the Grateful Dead singer as performed by a full orchestra.
The Metropolitan Opera is offering relief to attendees, with ergonomic seat cushions to be installed through most of the 3,800-seat opera house over the next 10 years.
A look at the 10 longest-running plays on Broadway reveals a lot about what it takes to survive on the Great White Way.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival has successfully given a radical transformation to the familiar parable of Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle.
Everybody likes Noël Coward's plays, but everybody does the same ones. Now Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey has filled the bill with a top-flight revival of "Fallen Angels," which hasn't…
As property values and rents have soared in much of Jersey City, the city's arts scene hasn't kept pace when it comes to entertainment venues. That could soon change with the development of …
On Wednesday, a new adaptation of Arthur Miller's classic play, titled "This Great Country," will begin a four-day run inside a shuttered clothing store at the South Street Seaport.
If there is more beautiful singing on the New York stage than the hymns in "Choir Boy," Jan Maxwell isn't aware of it. "That's how music should be in plays," she said. "Why are you singing? …
Among the upcoming jazz shows in the city: Paul Carlon Afro-Cuban Ensemble at Greenwich House and Brian Stokes Mitchell at the Town Hall.
Off-Broadway is currently home to three such exclamation-point-inclined parodies. In addition to "Showgirls!," the list includes "SILENCE! The Musical," a spoof of "Silence of the Lambs," th…
The New York Musical Theatre Festival has a solid history of launching new musicals to off-Broadway and Broadway stages. Now it's sending its director to the next level.
High-school students from all over the country come compete at the Jimmys, otherwise known as the National High School Musical Theater Awards.
Off-Broadway has always welcomed spoofs, from "Showgirls" to "Fifty Shades of Grey" and, soon, "Saved by the Bell."
Off-Broadway is currently home to three such exclamation-point-inclined parodies. In addition to "Showgirls!," the list includes "Silence! The Musical," a spoof of "Silence of the Lambs," th…
