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"Ganesh Versus the Third Reich" is a profound piece of theater, but it was only in the show's second hour that it became the transporting event that theatergoers like Kelly Copper and Pavol …
We talked with the veteran Belfast-born actor about his role as Big Daddy in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
The classic Tennessee Williams play, being revived again on Broadway, has sparked controversy over the years as directors and the playwright himself tweaked parts of it.
John Lithgow stars in the National Theatre's "The Magistrate," which can be seen live Thursday in cinemas through the U.S. and U.K.
Soon to be starring in the Broadway revival of William Inge's "Picnic," Mare Winningham talks about embracing the aging process and the many roles that come with it.
The Journal asked 40 New York-based theater artists to distribute $1 million in imaginary funds to the companies and venues they felt most deserved or needed the cash. We tallied the top 10 …
The Philharmonic performed 144 times last year, and Alan Gilbert was the world's busiest conductor, leading 80 concerts.
What is more to ask of a New York audience: getting to the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City to see Kristen Kosmas's "There There," or getting on board with the premise of her show?
To the ever-growing pairs of mother-daughter actress duos, we can now add Laurie Metcalf and her daughter Zoe Perry.
Few American plays written in the first half of the 20th century have been as durable as Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes." Florida Repertory Theatre shows us why.
When the play "Freud's Last Session" opened in a Manhattan YMCA in 2010 it became an unlikely hit, but few could have predicted just how widely seen the session would become. This fictional …
The producers of "Rebecca: The Musical" have been granted one more year to raise the capital they need to bring the troubled Broadway production to the stage, but the cost of the show could …
His passing on Christmas Eve at the age of 89 brought to a close not only a laudable acting career but an era when American men in the theater or movies routinely served in the military and …
Quentin Tarantino's latest film, "Django Unchained," was the weekend's biggest new release, beating out the musical "Les Miserables," but it failed to dislodge 'The Hobbit: an Unexpected Jou…
How Arthur Bartner makes the University of Southern California's marching band an integral part of the Trojans' gridiron action.
This has been an extraordinarily good year for revivals of major American plays.
There are more kids treading the Broadway boards this season than any in recent memory. Here are five of the emerging talents making a splash on the Great White Way.
The film makes you feel, intensely and sometimes thrillingly, by honoring the emotional core of its source material.
Practice, practice, practice"especially at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University, two major feeders to the world of professional theater.
Max Richter's "remix" of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is part of a flourishing tradition not only in music but also theater and painting.
Colm Wilkinson, who originated the role of Valjean in "Les Misérables" nearly 30 years ago, plays the Bishop in the new film.
Charming, fresh and staged with total sympathy, "Trelawny of the 'Wells'" is as delectable today as when Arthur Wing Pinero first wrote it.
The ABC show's music team is a player in producing songs for the actual Nashville.
She was in "Les Troyens" as Ascanius in 1993. Now she's taking on the production's most complex and human creation, Dido, Queen of Carthage.
Each week in Curtain Raisers, we invite a local theater artist to attend a show of his or her choosing and discuss the results. On Friday, director Pam MacKinnon went to see Ayad Akhtar's ta…
