In allocating the borough’s discretionary budget entirely to cultural projects, Brad Hoylman-Sigal said he wanted to send a message to President Trump about the need to keep arts funding.
Students from Georgia and Arizona won the top prizes at the ceremony, which was hosted by Bowen Yang and celebrates excellence in high school musical theater.
Lincoln Center Theater, basking in the glow of its Tony-winning “Ragtime” run, plans revivals of two more well-known titles this season.
Across the country, audiences will find an abundance of Shakespeare, exciting new plays, and musicals and regional repertories in bucolic settings.
Pioneer Winter’s works expand ideas about who gets to be a professional dancer. In “Apollo,” his muses are older dancers, who are like living archives.
“Kenrex” reimagines a notorious killing in Skidmore, Mo. Jesse McKinley wrote about the play — and the crime — after getting a tip from his son.
After 38 years in a tent, Hudson Valley Shakespeare opens one of the most spectacular outdoor performance spaces in the country.
Each June, students from around the country come to New York for the Jimmy Awards. We tagged along for a day of their intensive musical-theater residency.
Billy Porter and Wayne Brady make a tender pair in Robert O’Hara’s revival of the Harvey Fierstein-Jerry Herman musical farce.
The “Law & Order: SVU” actress “was really scared” about starring in “Every Brilliant Thing.” Who does she look to for inspiration? The Knicks, of course.
Stearns, a longtime principal at American Ballet Theater, has stepped down. He talks about being pushed to leave and the pains and boons of growing older.
Anna D. Shapiro revives Eric Bentley’s play about the House Un-American Activities Committee’s investigation of the entertainment industry.
The show, which revisits the story of a marmalade-loving bear, plans to open next April at the Hirschfeld Theater in New York.
Sharleen Chidiac, a choreographer and the effervescent lead singer of Voyeur, looks at ambition and freedom in her hybrid new work: a punk musical.
Performers were tested by the unexpected during a ballet production in Turkey.
Thanks to a $50 million grant, a new festival has been born. Kyle Abraham helps to curate the first edition, which is part of the center’s Summer of Dance.
If you can’t make it to Shakespeare in the Park, check out a version starring Josh O’Connor. Other picks include Matthew López’s “The Inheritance.”
Tambores may not be as widely known as other Latin dances like merengue and salsa, but that is starting to change with the exodus of millions of Venezuelans.
The Knicks turned New York City into a stage, where movement is a catalyst for untainted happiness.
Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, “Sunday in the Park With George,” contains a song capable of making order out of mayhem. Listen to hear how he did it.
A co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company, known for its surreal productions, he also gave energetic performances as his alter ego, Martha Graham Cracker.
A performance artist, dancer, choreographer, videographer, filmmaker and curator, he was a central figure in the downtown Manhattan experimental arts scene.
Paul Lightfoot and Sol León brought their blend of stretched balletic line and idiosyncratic gesture to London with a new work inspired by daily ballet class exercises.
For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, the director Saheem Ali presents a strangely low-energy version of the tragedy.
The final curtain is coming down on two Tony Award-winning performances, a reboot of a 1980s musical and one of the best plays in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle.