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This year’s Avignon Festival has transformed into a staging ground for protests, defiant new works and some early 2027 presidential campaigning.
“Broad Strokes” recounts this singing comedian’s medical emergency, juxtaposing “something brash and grotesque and humiliating with something completely heartfelt.”
As the summer heats up, here’s seven not-to-miss Off Broadway shows.
Our reporter, a lapsed dancer, got an intimate glimpse of the action in the American Ballet Theater’s production.
The actress Kerry Washington and the director Whitney White want to honor Goldberg’s theatrical legacy by revisiting her acclaimed portraits of humanity.
Morris’s dance troupe presents “Dances to American Music,” three programs at the Joyce Theater.
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.
Watch A.I.M by Kyle Abraham perform a new work at T Magazine’s New York City headquarters.
“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.”
A stirring but tonally muddled new musical about the “poison queen of Palermo” gets an elegant Off Broadway production.
Tennessee Williams’s darkly operatic one-act play becomes a proper opera in a new adaptation by the composer Courtney Bryan.
A new play is its own piece of art: A first-person account of an official inquiry into an artist’s use of private investigation databases to create work.
A veteran stage actress, she starred in two of Britain’s most beloved TV comedies of the 1970s, “The Good Life” and “To the Manor Born.”
Jake Roxander, a virtuosic wonder at American Ballet Theater, was promoted onstage after a recent performance. The news hasn’t quite sunk in.
He had a long career in theater, and several small roles in big movies, including “Force 10 From Navarone” and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”
The show about the country music queen, “Dolly: A True Original Musical,” will begin performances on Broadway in December.
Across generations, Lai Hung-Chung and Shen Wei are grappling with the possibilities of Chinese contemporary dance as they present their work in New York.
While it was good to see again Rachid Ouramdane’s moving duet from a decade ago, Akram Khan’s new piece was unconvincing.
