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TORONTO -- Each night around 11 p.m. at the Toronto International Film Festival, after the Oscar-bait wannabes and acclaimed documentaries have called it a day, 1,200 filmgoers line up outside [...]

TORONTO -- Each night around 11 p.m. at the Toronto International Film Festival, after the Oscar-bait wannabes and acclaimed documentaries have called it a day, 1,200 filmgoers line up outside [...]

NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, CANADA -- The slip of paper lodged in Shaw Festival programs at a recent Saturday matinee didn't beg for donations or warn about an understudy. Instead, [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, CANADA -- The slip of paper lodged in Shaw Festival programs at a recent Saturday matinee didn't beg for donations or warn about [...]

Seven years ago, Jason Robert Brown visited the office of the storied director and producer Harold Prince to discuss collaborating on a revue about Mr. Prince's career. Like any Broadway [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE Seven years ago, Jason Robert Brown visited the office of the storied director and producer Harold Prince to discuss collaborating on a revue about Mr. Prince's career. [...]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It was 10 a.m., less than 12 hours after the final performance of the Vivaldi rarity ''Farnace'' at the Spoleto Festival USA here, and Anthony Roth Costanzo's [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE Correction Appended CHARLESTON, S.C. -- It was 10 a.m., less than 12 hours after the final performance of the Vivaldi rarity 'Farnace' at the Spoleto Festival USA [...]

Devised-theater companies like Improbable fumble their way to a completed piece through trial and error. They come up with a theory for what might work, then test that theory until [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCarol Channing, who created the title role in the 1964 smash hit musical ''Hello, Dolly!,'' has been called many things: ''a walking alarm clock,'' ''a moon-mad hillbilly,'' ''an Al [...]

Comparisons to the Orient Express don't necessarily favor the 8:22 a.m. Amtrak from Trenton to Washington. Its food offerings one recent morning included Lipton tea and a shrink-wrapped blueberry muffin, [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE Comparisons to the Orient Express don't necessarily favor the 8:22 a.m. Amtrak from Trenton to Washington. Its food offerings one recent morning included Lipton tea and a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMike Connors, who broke free of years of supporting roles when he found stardom in the late 1960s as a maverick private investigator on the CBS series ''Mannix,'' which [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIt all started at a gypsy-cab station in the Hill District of Pittsburgh. August Wilson used to drink coffee every day at a restaurant next door and chat with [...]

How mortifying would it be to page through the creative writing you did as a teenager? And then, years or even decades later, actually see it in print? That's what [...]

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Sottile Theater on the College of Charleston campus, like so many stages, was riddled on a recent afternoon with ''spikes'': pieces of glow-in-the-dark tape designed to [...]

For Elizabeth Swados, being nominated for four Tony Awards in one year while still in her 20s -- for ''Runaways,'' in 1978 -- led to success in an unexpected direction. [...]

''Hello, Dolly.'' ''Oliver.'' ''Oklahoma.'' Those titles don't look quite right, do they? They're missing a certain...something. They're talking when they should be shouting or exclaiming or... That's it! For decades, [...]

Misery loves company, especially the exquisitely calibrated, funny-despite-it-all misery that runs rampant through Anton Chekhov's major plays. Not content with the more or less faithful translations by the likes of [...]

So many Velcro-affixed bottles. So many fake beards (plus a few real ones). And so, so many daughters. As the sun rises Sunday, Dec. 20, on the latest Broadway ''Fiddler [...]

After an early out-of-town preview of his play ''The Gin Game'' in 1976, one filled with flubbed lines and disconcertingly long silences, D. L. Coburn sat in a hotel room [...]

ROCHESTER -- A sign about eight miles east of this city's storied Corn Hill neighborhood points out a historical landmark, the rail yard where the blues musician Son House worked [...]

After working with an Australian lyricist named Steve on 200 to 300 songs, Colin Summers has a pretty good bead on his musical tastes and obsessions, his regrets and ambitions. [...]

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ONTARIO -- Playwright. Theater critic. Vegetarian. Suffragist. Phonemic alphabet enthusiast. London School of Economics co-founder. And now ''sentimental pseudo-socialist, peddling an idealist conception of history.'' George Bernard Shaw is [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPatrick Macnee, who wielded a lethal umbrella and sharp repartee as the dapper secret agent John Steed on the 1960s television series ''The Avengers,'' died on Thursday at his [...]

Even a relentlessly adventurous producer and director like Woodie King Jr. was bound to reach a breaking point when it came to Amiri Baraka. For a half century, ever since [...]

For a few years there, Broadway must have seemed about as accessible as the icy battlefields of revolutionary Russia for Tam Mutu. The most conspicuous near miss came in 2011 [...]

Rene Fleming has performed at Bayreuth, La Scala and the Super Bowl. She has lent her soprano to the contents of a David Letterman Top 10 list. She has inspired [...]

Magic realism doesn't work in a world where anything goes as a matter of course. At some point, the magic needs to give way to -- or at least nestle [...]

Many costume designers claim that the best examples of their work are the ones that go unnoticed, that serve the play while staying demurely in the background. Two new Off [...]

Most of us wouldn't go back to middle school age for 15 minutes if we could avoid it. Rebecca Benson has done it voluntarily since 2013 in ''Let the Right [...]

''This obviously isn't for money or glory, so come and do it if you want.'' Peter Sarsgaard typed that sentence in an email to an actor friend of his not [...]

Byline: ERIC GRODE 'This obviously isn't for money or glory, so come and do it if you want.' Peter Sarsgaard typed that sentence in an email to an actor friend [...]

Video projections, once the sole province of technologically precocious companies like the Wooster Group, have become standard fare for theater artists. A GoPro camera and a relatively flat surface can [...]

Circus performers are used to a bit of competition for the audience's attention, whether from cream-pie-wielding clowns, befezzed elephants or popcorn-selling vendors. But the Finnish aerialist Ilona Jantti set out [...]