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If you should be lucky enough to see Shakespeare Theatre Company's "Coriolanus," featuring a towering performance by Patrick Page, you'll come away wondering why it doesn't get done regularl…
A new PBS chronicle of Mr. Brooks's career is entertainment gold throughout, a work never in any danger of running low on charm or hilarity.
Billy Crystal is bringing his hit one-man show "700 Sundays" back to Broadway next season, its producers said Tuesday. The limited nine-week run at the Imperial Theatre is set to begin in No…
"My entire end game is to become a fabulous, old-lady actress"I'm scoping out those roles now," said actress Emily Bergl, explaining her decision to go see 88-year-old Cicely Tyson star in "…
This year six of the seven playwrights selected for the 2013 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab are New York-based.
Kelly Ripa and Anne Hathaway were among the guests at Lincoln Center's annual Spring Gala, which honored Reynold Levy, Lincoln Center's president of 11 years and raised $8.2 million.
Unexpected responses from an audience can be one of the most thrilling aspects of a live performance.
Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse kicks off its new season with "The Dining Room," A.R. Gurney's most fully realized portrayal of the fast-vanishing world of WASPs.
The actor on Woody Allen, post-"Transformers" syndrome and his coming role in "The Master Builder."
This week, Barneys CEO Mark Lee held a reception at his Chelsea apartment for the Berwin Lee Playwrights Award, an annual grant of $25,000 to two playwrights.
Daniel Radcliffe limbers up for the title role in 'The Cripple of Inishmaan.'
Forty years after lifting Sweden's musical profile, ABBA is getting a museum in the heart of Stockholm's "golden triangle" of tourist attractions.
The 2013 Tony Award nominating committee gave the theater world a few surprises and much to debate after it made its annual announcement on Tuesday morning.
Playwright, author and activist Larry Kramer will receive this year's Isabelle Stevenson Award at the Tony Awards.
We took playwright Sharr White to see "Matilda: the Musical," where theatergoers can learn to "build the myth of your own life."
Monday's Tony Award nominations are likely to be a mix of sure bets and long shots. When it comes to musicals, this is the year of "Matilda," writes Pia Catton.
The original "Pippin" ran for 1,944 performances, longer than "The Music Man, "The Sound of Music" or "South Pacific." Now Diane Paulus's production is a knock-'em-dead extravaganza meant to…
Four child actors alternate playing lead role in Broadway's new smash hit.
It's no secret that Broadway is just a big-money theme park, where quality productions are hard to come by. But regional companies are increasingly playing it safe, too. One artistic directo…
On April 1, the same day spring hours officially started on the High Line, construction began below the elevated park on a 6,000-square-foot pop-up venue called Kazino.
In the off-Broadway one-man show, "Buyer & Cellar," Michael Urie ("Ugly Betty") plays an out-of-work actor who takes a job working for Barbra Streisand in the mall she keeps in her basement.
Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful" is one of this country's greatest plays, saying at least as much about our national character as "The Glass Menagerie" or "Our Town."
John Logan is the writer behind "Skyfall" and a couple of Martin Scorsese's better recent films"not exactly the guy you'd guess came up with "I'll Eat You Last," the new one-woman play about…
If you're a lapsed Catholic, preferably Irish, then this is the play for you.
A new film about the late rock musician Jeff Buckley eschews the typical biopic formula and homes in on one of Buckley's first performances, when he performed the songs of his father, Tim Bu…
