Over 40 years after his breakthrough at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the actor tackles Chekhov and the Bard in two productions that subtly resonate with his own story.

An August Wilson classic wouldn?t exist without a Romare Bearden masterpiece. Here?s how the two are intertwined.

At 71, Debra Winger and Arliss Howard have aged into a married-couples acting tradition that Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn began.

Eustis has been the Public Theater?s artistic director for 21 years, stewarding Free Shakespeare in the Park, nurturing ?Hamilton? and navigating the coronavirus pandemic.

Concert versions and touring productions keep the spirit of 19th-century French revolutionaries alive.

?Broad Strokes? recounts this singing comedian?s medical emergency, juxtaposing ?something brash and grotesque and humiliating with something completely heartfelt.?

The director Brett Sullivan gives viewers the best seat in the house, with delicate camerawork that moves with the rhythms of Anaïs Mitchell?s soulful score.

This year?s Avignon Festival has transformed into a staging ground for protests, defiant new works and some early 2027 presidential campaigning.

As the summer heats up, our critics are raving about these seven not-to-miss Off Broadway shows.

Summertime is a ripe time for terror. Our horror expert picks a night at the drive-in for a slasher double feature, an amble through a cemetery and more.

The actress Kerry Washington and the director Whitney White want to honor Goldberg?s theatrical legacy by revisiting her acclaimed portraits of humanity.

Des (Heather Agyepong) and Dre (Daniel Ezra), navigate a mutual magnetic pull in this British love story by Benedict Lombe at Cherry Lane Theater.

A stripped-back, cross-cultural reading with the Korean star Lee Hye-young at the Avignon Festival brought out a rare softness in the French actress.

A beautifully observed version of a man?s final act, along with a lively staging of ?As You Like It,? engage the surrounding mountains in conversation.

César Alvarez?s ambitious new work is a mixed musical meal: It wants to be a call to revolutionary action but is surprisingly lacking in it.

Streaming picks include the family-friendly sci-fi adventure ?Franklin?s Key? in Philadelphia and ?Hamlet? at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

?When I?m no longer living, can this place exist?? Robert Wilson wondered in a film about his Long Island art incubator. This month, its annual festival will go on without him.

Instead of one Whoopi Goldberg, audiences now experience five actresses: Kerry Washington, Kara Young, Dominique Fishback, Danielle Pinnock and Kecia Lewis.

At her Hudson Valley guesthouse, Audrey Gelman, a co-founder of the Wing, channels her childlike love of play with murder mystery evenings.

The actress and entrepreneur got an apartment in the city for the summer while she makes her Broadway debut in ?Every Brilliant Thing.?

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