![]() | ?A Chorus Line? and ?Chicago? at 50: Who Won? |
The slinky jailbirds and Broadway hopefuls in these two classic shows have been fighting it out since 1975. | |
![]() | The Moves That Make ?Chicago? and ?A Chorus Line? So Special |
To celebrate the shows? golden anniversaries, the Broadway star Robyn Hurder demonstrates what makes their choreography so special. | |
![]() | Why Did the Indie Film Studio A24 Buy an Off Broadway Theater? |
The Hollywood upstart has upgraded the Cherry Lane Theater for plays and more. Coming this fall: films chosen by Sofia Coppola, food from Frenchette and the voice of Barbra Streisand. | |
![]() | Taye Diggs Can?t Resist a Good Rom-Com |
?There is the element of love, which can be so serious and so complicated, but when you add the dynamic of humor, it makes it so much more real and exciting and fun to watch.? | |
![]() | ?The Weir? Review: A Few Pints to Help the Ghost Stories Go Down Easy |
Conor McPherson?s eerie 1997 drama, set in a rural Ireland of near-empty pubs and howling winds, returns to Irish Rep in top form. | |
![]() | Broadway?s ?Gypsy? Revival, Starring Audra McDonald, Will Close |
The show is the sixth musical to announce a closing date since last month?s Tony Awards, reflecting financial challenges facing producers. | |
![]() | Williamstown Theater Festival Was in Crisis. Here?s How It?s Changing. |
The Berkshires mainstay is trying something different this season: just three weekends, but eight shows, including two Tennessee Williams plays and even ice dancing. | |
![]() | ?The Gospel at Colonus? Review: Singing Hallelujah on the Hudson |
In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson?s musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life. | |
![]() | All Aboard a Steam Train to See ?The Railway Children? |
The smells and sounds of locomotive travel get the audience in the mood for a theatrical adaptation of the beloved children?s book. | |
![]() | Sandra Oh Knows What?s Great About Middle Age |
The actress discusses discrimination in Hollywood, what she?s learned about herself in her 50s and her iconic role on ?Grey?s Anatomy.? | |
![]() | Martin Izquierdo Dead: Costume Designer Who Made Wings for ?Angels in America? Was 83 |
His work was seen in ?Angels in America? and Victoria?s Secret runway shows. He also made outlandish ensembles for Heidi Klum and Marc Jacobs. | |
![]() | John Conklin, Who Created Fantastical Opera Sets, Dies at 88 |
Realizing a childhood dream, he created scenery that was highly conceptual yet playful for the Glimmerglass Festival, New York City Opera and other companies. | |
![]() | Theater to Stream: Morgan Freeman in ?Gospel at Colonus? and More |
Can?t catch the live revival of this retelling of ?Oedipus at Colonus?? Stream a version with Freeman and Robert Earl Jones, or four more stage-related shows. | |
![]() | An Indispensable Theater Incubator Faces a Troubled Future |
The Eugene O?Neill Theater Center, whose alumni include August Wilson, Jeremy O. Harris and Wendy Wasserstein, has given playwrights a place to take a risk for nearly 60 years. | |
![]() | As Climate Change Heats Up Europe?s Summers, Avignon Festival Tries to Adapt |
Rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the theater extravaganza, where extreme heat is making it tough for the audience. | |
![]() | The Surprising Presence in ?The Gospel at Colonus? |
In this revival at Little Island, the singer and pastor Kim Burrell shares the stage with a team of queer artists. | |
![]() | Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ?Take Me Out? Won a Tony, Dies at 67 |
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York?s upper middle class. | |
![]() | ?Memnon? Review: To Fight or Not to Fight? |
In Will Power?s play for the Classical Theater of Harlem, Eric Berryman stars as an Ethiopian king drawn into the Trojan War. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Bring the House Down,? by Charlotte Runcie |
Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) bad theater. | |
![]() | ?Heathers: The Musical? Returns to New York, Fueled by a Devoted Fandom |
An adaptation of the 1980s teen movie with an apocalyptic bent was fine-tuned in London. Now it?s returning to New York. | |
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