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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 article focuses on the rediscovery of Edith Wharton's 1901 play "The Shadow of a Doubt," previously almost forgotten, which is being presented as a world premiere at the Shaw Festival in Canada, shedding light on Wharton's lesser-known theater work and highlighting her foray into playwriting.