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From his studio in Maine, one of the last full-time ventriloquist puppet makers in the country combines mechanics, painting and performance to create one-of-a-kind characters.
A founding faculty member of Juilliard Drama, she helped the actors Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Wendell Pierce and many other mentees find their voice, quite literally.
As the festival opens Friday, some of the acts already have significant word-of-mouth buzz or planned runs beyond the Fringe.
The bassist Esperanza Spalding and choreographer Kayla Farrish are teaming up to improvise together, mending the frayed relationship between their arts.
The comic actor, who ended a celebrated run on “Saturday Night Live” last year, will begin a 12-week engagement in mid-September.
In this Off Broadway play, the actor has the swagger to portray an entrepreneur pitching an A.I. start-up to his friends. Still, the drama falls flat.
Diana Vishneva’s performance at the Venice Dance Biennale raised uncomfortable questions for an event that once vowed to cut ties with Russia’s artists over the war in Ukraine.
Three workers at a towering Manhattan tourist attraction watch for visitors intent on self-harm in this new play by Brendan George.
A farmer, poet and musician, he revitalized contra dancing in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing the tradition to a new generation.
Copeland, the retired ballerina was the first Black female principal of American Ballet Theater, curates a two-week festival at the Joyce.
Geno Segers was set to join the production with an all-new principal cast in September.
Every Broadway production of “Death of a Salesman” has its distinguishing features. Willy Loman’s Chevrolet is a powerful character in the latest production.
He played Salvatore Bonpensiero, a mobster’s foot soldier turned F.B.I. informant known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the celebrated HBO series.
Bridget Everett, Patti LuPone, Alex Moffat, Ben Folds and Michael R. Jackson are all slated to perform on New York City stages this month.
His dreamlike, expressionistic style influenced the vividly theatrical works of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, an early collaborator.
Hannah Waddingham is a rare British actor to beat a path from musical theater to the screen.
Boy George’s manager said he was pulling the singer from a role in “Jesus Christ Superstar” in “the best interests of my artist.”
At the Joyce Theater, Philadanco! premiered a new dance of civic pride by Rennie Harris that’s oddly muffled.
Catch these Tony Award winners and nominees before the curtain comes down on them for a final time.
At the height of the psychedelic era, he guided the very vocal San Francisco Mime Troupe’s pointed satire of American militarism, racism and bourgeois values.
In this month’s picks, a portrait of a jazz musician, a French archival family film and an Alabama prison exposé using footage from inmates.
As the hit series keeps expanding, an ambitious stage adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s prequel saga has found a natural home at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Savion Glover, Honey Balenciaga and other artists from the world of performance share their favorites, from era-defining musicals to art-house dramas.
The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.
The creative team behind a revival of the rock musical celebrating teenage love and angst turned to open auditions as they cast the show.
