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Three young former dancers have retired and formed their own companies, to mixed results.
J.R. Sullivan, the artistic director of the Pearl Theatre Company, saw the Steppenwolf Theater's revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," directed by Pam MacKinnon, expecting to be surp…
It may take decades before artists and audiences alike can truly judge the impact that the director, currently at the Met with "The Tempest," has made.
Great works of art can profit from radical reinterpretations that fling conventional wisdom out the window. Playwrights and their posthumous representatives should lighten up and let directo…
"Jesus Christ Superstar" is mounted as Andrew Lloyd Webber always intended: in concert.
Brian Friel's "The Freedom of the City" is a meditation on how politics can crush innocent people in the pincers of absurdity.
Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" is one of the most compelling new operas of recent years, and the production by Robert Lepage matches it in imagination and originality.
America Ballet Theatre will announce Wednesday that it has signed a three-year deal to perform at the David H. Koch Theater, starting in October 2013 with a two-week season.
Last week, 23-year-old actress Joaquina Kalukango went to the Public Theater to see Colman Domingo's "Wild With Happy," and found parallels in the story and her own life as an artist.
Behind the soaring scenes as the Metropolitan Opera gets ready for "The Tempest."
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is back on Broadway, in as fine a revival as you're likely to see in a lifetime of playgoing.
Now that "Peanuts" is on its way to becoming a movie for the first time since 1980, a look at movies that never seem to get made.
The singer and musical-theater star is enjoying a second career interpreting the Great American Songbook in concert halls and cabarets.
A Long Island businessman allegedly duped the producers of "Rebecca: The Musical" into believing he had secured $4.5 million from investors to open the show on Broadway.
There are people who stay in for a low-key Friday night, and then there are people who spend the evening in Midtown for a My Little Pony party.
As the seldom-seen singer kicks off the "Back to Brooklyn" tour, her most ardent superfans are seizing the moment.
For Mike Daisey, all appears to have been forgiven at the Public Theater. He will return to the venue seven months after the exposure of his fabrications in a show about Apple.
The appointment of K.T. Sullivan as the artistic director of the Mabel Mercer Foundation comes at a portentous moment in cabaret's history.
Fans of the Broadway hit "Newsies" might be forgiven for doing a double take these days. That's because 17-year-old Jacob and David Guzman, who share the same DNA, are now sharing the stage …
Of the jukebox musicals to open in New York in the past decade, most have been witless. All praise to the Keen Company, then, for reviving "Marry Me a Little" and showing the big boys how to…
In Marcia Gay Harden's most recent film, "Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You," which is out Friday in a handful of theaters and on video-on-demand, she was able to experience something …
The comic has a one-man show opening on Broadway, and a play he wrote on stage in New Jersey.
American Ballet Theater principal dancer Marcelo Gomes, captured in midair at ABT's studios in Manhattan.
"Then She Fell," the latest production by the experiential-theater company Third Rail Projects, is inspired by author Lewis Carroll and staged in a repurposed Brooklyn hospital.
Tony-award winner Douglas Hodge may gets his pick of roles now, but he still finds acting to be slightly embarrassing.
