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By presenting ''The Orphan of Chao'' and ''Snow in Midsummer,'' the Shaw Festival is helping ''the past to smash its way into the modern world.'' For 35 years, the Shaw [...]

At St. Ann's Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films. The saloon is there. So are the dusty [...]

At St. Ann’s Warehouse, a collaboration between a Danish director and a South African troupe that questions the tropes of Western films. The saloon is there. So are the dusty [...]

In Bekah Brunstetter's new play ''The Game,'' women withhold sex from their partners who are obsessed with a Fortnite-like game. Her previous work includes ''The Oregon Trail.'' The writer Bekah [...]

In Bekah Brunstetter’s new play “The Game,” women withhold sex from their partners who are obsessed with a Fortnite-like game. Her previous work includes “The Oregon Trail.” The writer Bekah [...]

Vera Drew used the Batman villain to tell a trans coming-of-age story. When Warner Bros. found out, the filmmaker wasn't sure what would come next. Vera Drew never received a [...]

Vera Drew used the Batman villain to tell a trans coming-of-age story. When Warner Bros. found out, the filmmaker wasn’t sure what would come next. Vera Drew never received a [...]

As with so many family reunion plays, the squabbling Lafayette siblings in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's ''Appropriate'' dislodge their share of skeletons from the closets of their childhood home, a former plantation [...]

As with so many family reunion plays, the squabbling Lafayette siblings in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” dislodge their share of skeletons from the closets of their childhood home, a former plantation [...]

With its commitment to presenting free spectacles, the event has become one of the country's more prominent multidisciplinary events. Sweaty venues roughly the size of a walk-in closet. Eye-catchingly daft [...]

With its commitment to presenting free spectacles, the event has become one of the country's more prominent multidisciplinary events. Sweaty venues roughly the size of a walk-in closet. Eye-catchingly daft [...]

Byline: Eric Grode The Shaw Festival in Canada is staging the novelist's 1901 script, discovered only a few years ago. But how to get its mix of satire and melodrama [...]

He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, ''All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.'' Ahmad Jamal, whose measured, [...]

What are the greatest films of all time? For many cineastes, a poll conducted once a decade by the British film magazine Sight and Sound has, for more than 70 [...]

Byline: Eric Grode Memoirs by his collaborators are among the works available now, and several others are on the horizon. Roughly a decade before Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, [...]

Memoirs by his collaborators are among the works available now, and several others are on the horizon. Roughly a decade before Stephen Sondheim died in November 2021, he added a [...]

What are the greatest films of all time? For many cineastes, a poll conducted once a decade by the British film magazine Sight and Sound has, for more than 70 [...]

Byline: Eric Grode NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario - Nobody is coming to rescue Bella Manningham. And that's a good thing. Bella, the damsel in seemingly self-inflicted distress at the center of 'Gaslight,' [...]

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario -- Nobody is coming to rescue Bella Manningham. And that's a good thing. Bella, the damsel in seemingly self-inflicted distress at the center of ''Gaslight,'' has been a [...]

One hundred years ago this month, the interfaith marriage comedy ''Abie's Irish Rose'' kicked off a five-year Broadway run -- critics be damned. Among the waspish regulars of the Algonquin [...]

The lyricist and composer, who died on Friday, wrote dozens of piercing tunes for Broadway. Here is a selection of his most brilliant and surprising. The career of Stephen Sondheim, [...]

The 1984 kung fu film was shot, but it wasn't completed. Now, with a new director and newly recorded dialogue, the film sees the light of day. Kung fu fights [...]

The playwright Keenan Scott II, the director Steve H. Broadnax III and others discuss how ''a timeless piece'' for Black actors has evolved over 15 years. Plays by August Wilson [...]

The composer and lyricist, who died at 92, was a trailblazer in virtually every field she touched. Theater in Manhattan was bristling with Black voices in the early 1970s, but [...]

James C. Nicola, who balanced provocative programming with shows aimed at Broadway, will have served 34 years as artistic director. As the New York theater world points toward reopening, one [...]

With a virtual performance marking the Broadway musical's anniversary, original cast and creative team members talk about losing Jonathan Larson and carrying on his legacy. What's 525,600 times 25? It [...]

The musical comedy will be livestreamed from England, with a quarantined cast and tickets aiding more than 30 global venues. Sandra Marvin had just dropped her plants off with a [...]

Byline: Eric Grode After composing and arranging for big bands, he gave the world melodies like 'The Shadow of Your Smile,' 'Emily' and 'Suicide Is Painless.' Johnny Mandel, who composed [...]

After composing and arranging for big bands, he gave the world melodies like ''The Shadow of Your Smile,'' ''Emily'' and ''Suicide Is Painless.'' Johnny Mandel, who composed and arranged for [...]

How Adam Schlesinger and his writing partner created what may be the most outrageous opening number the broadcast has ever seen. ''Attention, every breeder/You're invited to the theater.'' Hearing that [...]

Miranda's rap. Rylance's poems. Jackman's pelvis. And a brassy reunion for Bea Arthur and Angela Lansbury. Now set your clock for ''Turkey Lurkey Time.'' The 500 guests at the American [...]

Filmmakers have been vying for decades to come up with loooong takes that tell tales great and small. ''Action!'' ''Cut!'' They're the two most common words you might expect to [...]

Minefields abound when translating outdated, sometimes derogatory dialect for the Metropolitan Opera's seatback titles. ''Happy dust,'' the powdery white drug at the center of George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess,'' is [...]

The marketing campaign for the Broadway-bound ''Slave Play'' is following the time-honored tradition of leaning into its controversy, with pull quotes like ''Gaudily transgressive'' and ''Gruesomely sexy.'' Assuming the transgressions [...]

Byline: Eric Grode A dancer turned director, Kimberley Rampersad is tackling 'Man and Superman' at the Shaw Festival. NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO - 'Sweets.' 'Honey.' 'Homie.' 'Angels.' 'Sweets' again. 'Darling.' In the [...]

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO -- ''Sweets.'' ''Honey.'' ''Homie.'' ''Angels.'' ''Sweets'' again. ''Darling.'' In the space of less than an hour, these were just a few of the terms of endearment lobbed from [...]

One performer turned down his nomination. One musical was there only because it had been barred the year before. One not-nominated director was mentioned so many times in acceptance speeches [...]

BALTIMORE -- The seats are no more than 14 inches from the Everyman Theater stage here. There are two of them, and they each bear the name of Shawn Laken, [...]

To hip-hop artists, he was the supplier of endless beats and grooves. To Stephen Sondheim acolytes, he was the composer of the show that beat ''Follies'' for the Best Musical [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE The overalls. The pigtails. The eyebrow-penciled spray of freckles on the cheeks. Anyone with even a passing familiarity to children's theater knows (and probably dreads) the telltale [...]

For the first time in more than a dozen plays, Samuel D. Hunter has left Idaho altogether. By about a half mile. ''Lewiston/Clarkston,'' easily the most ambitious staging of Mr. [...]

Sarah Bernhardt ran her own theater. Correction: She owned her own theater, which she also ran. It had a dressing room that was actually five rooms, with a marble fireplace. [...]

Gone are the days when a recorder and a few desultory ''hey nonny nonnys'' would suffice for the musical passages in a Shakespeare production. Shaina Taub took an ebullient, slangy [...]

Several clusters of GET WELL SOON! balloons bobbed slightly in a corner of the ceiling in Micki Grant's Upper West Side living room. They had lost a bit of helium, [...]

All sorts of factors go into picking a Broadway show's opening night, but April 29, 1968, is very likely the only one to have been selected by the producer's astrologer. [...]