Before returning to New York to lead Roundabout, Christopher Ashley is concluding his 18-year tenure at La Jolla Playhouse with the new musical ?Working Girl.?

?The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions? is a music theater piece based on Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta?s 1970s book.

The Tony-nominated American playwright and actor has been in custody since airport customs officers found Ecstasy in his bag last month.

The theater that drew acclaim last year for ?Les Misérables? is hoping Paris can accept a new ?Americano-French musical.?

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O?Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son.

The Broadway revival, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, was transformative. Here?s what to know about the show, and the movie.

The Tony-winning Broadway revival of the notorious Stephen Sondheim flop, starring Jonathan Groff, Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, gets a live stage recording for the big screen.

Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus.

?Prince Faggot,? ?Figaro/Faggots? and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?

This production, which retains many of the charms of its 2019 Broadway staging, has lost some of its necessary darkness.

For one writer, putting together her annual roundup of streaming holiday movies requires open-mindedness ? and a high tolerance for candy-coated clichés.

How one era changed everything about the culture ? and why we?re so nostalgic for its creations.

Joe Mantello will direct the next revival of Arthur Miller?s ?Death of a Salesman,? opening in April at the Winter Garden Theater.

Michelle Williams leads an O?Neill drama, Matthew Broderick stars in Molière, and plenty of stages brim with non-holiday fare, Off Broadway and beyond.

The playwright won an Academy Award for ?Shakespeare in Love.? But he was also a prolific script doctor who worked with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg.

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.

Nobody advanced or cherished the English language more than Stoppard, Tim Curry noted. Colleagues and fans agreed.

The playwright, who learned about his Jewish heritage late in life, addressed it in the Tony Award-winning drama ?Leopoldstadt.?

In works like ?Travesties? and ?Arcadia,? the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

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