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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.
Some of the most talked-about pavilions at this year’s art event feature theatrical performances. But working with live bodies brings extra challenges.
Caitlin Simmers, a world champion surfer, sees her sport as dance. How does this translate? She’s as seamless as a ribbon.
Among the stars and stans at a Hudson River retreat, two reporters beheld the big belters and niche merchandise at a new musical theater festival.
Regional theaters can once again produce “Les Misérables” because a national tour has ended. One veteran actor called the popular show “an instant moneymaker.”
The actor went from oracle to angel of vengeance in the HBO drama. In an interview, he discusses his two Emmy nods for two very different characters.
She was the last known surviving soloist from an event that changed American dance: the opening night of Sadler’s Wells Ballet’s first U.S. tour.
With her usual irreverent humor, the playwright Sophie McIntosh mines the experiences of four young, cooped-up women at a Manhattan reformatory in 1917.
Dance is neither a tool nor an accessory for Madonna. It is an unwavering force in her performing life.
The “Widow’s Bay” star on his two Emmy nominations, his penchant for going dark and his wobbly self-esteem.
Whether on a constant treadmill, turning trauma into laughs or venturing into children’s entertainment, these acts are winning over viewers and critics.
Other streaming picks include a deft “Winter’s Tale,” a reimagining of a solo show about sex work and a ’70s production of Chekhov by tweens.
Our chief theater critic, Helen Shaw, is in Scotland for the Edinburgh International Festival. For her, Christiane Jatahy’s modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People”…
