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“Come From Away,” about a remote Newfoundland community that embraced grounded travelers, is playing all over the world — even in the town where it takes place.
The film, which opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday, portrays the rise of the British tabloid The Sun in Boyle’s trademark rollicking style.
The cast of 100 in “Public Record,” almost all amateurs, spotlights people who open their hearts and share their stories for five nights at the Delacorte Theater.
In “Electra/Persona” at the National Theater in London, the actresses turn a spotlight on performance and the slipperiness of identity.
The fall season kicks off with a jam-packed month of riches, including experiments in docu-theater and performances by Lupita Nyong’o and Victoria Clark.
From Hannah Reilly to Amanda Knox to clowns, who are the hype beasts of this year’s Fringe Festival? Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, went to Edinburgh to find out.
A residency at MoMA showed that Pageant, a Brooklyn performance space where experimental dance thrives, is really the sum of its artist parts.
In this semi-open-air staging in the Hudson Valley, the musical conjures Paris’s seedy cobblestone streets with an adept Jean Valjean leading the charge.
Floating Points brings his niche classical music obsessions and deep love for dance clubs to his ballet score and new album “Mere Mortals.”
“Here There Are Blueberries,” about archivists debating how to handle a troubling gift, will open at the Barrymore Theater in November.
At Berlin’s storied Volksbühne, a director’s attempt to revive a troubled playhouse with a free swimming pool has stirred fierce debates over race, class and public space.
He was a blast to watch, whether playing a mad scientist in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a butler in “Clue” or a singing King Arthur in “Spamalot.”
Curry thrived onstage and onscreen in meaty roles that brought him widespread recognition and generations of dedicated fans.
The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.
The British actor, who played Ron Weasley in all eight films, will play the same character, this time as an adult, in “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”
It’s now haunting Broadway in this adaptation of the horror film franchise about a couple seeking a new start. Instead, they become prime targets.
“Dolly: A True Original Musical” is scheduled to begin previews in December after a strong-selling production in Nashville last year.
Fluency in a variety of movement techniques — street dance, acrobatics, parkour — allows site-responsive dancers to shape seemingly unbounded interactions with their environments.
The designers kept in mind the slapdash seediness that has been embedded in the musical’s DNA ever since it started in 1973 at the Royal Court Theater in London.
Best known for her hit song “I Think We’re Alone Now,” she is making her Off Broadway debut in “Spandex the Musical.”
Performed in Flemish Sign Language, “[seagull]” revisits Anton Chekhov’s play with a cast of hearing and deaf actors. Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, met with the play’s direct…
He was best known for the influential 1976 guide “Poor Dancer’s Almanac,” which aimed to help starving artists survive in New York.
From 60-minute plays to marathon dramas, surviving the festival and the Fringe isn’t about finding a common thread — it’s about surrendering to the chaos.
The Nashville songsmith J.T. Harding gives the lowdown on writing with Keith Urban, Uncle Kracker, Shane McAnally and more.
The request from a Democratic lawmaker follows a decision by the Trump-allied board to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” to the building.
