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Back when the actress https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/magazine/lizzy-caplan-sex-ed-teacher-to-the-world.html was in her teens and early 20s, after she’d deferred college to star in a pilot that never went to series but before she began [...]

Anthony Carrigan was 7 the first time he stepped onstage. And he was terrified. Debilitating stage fright, which he would struggle with for decades, would have led most children to [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Anthony Carrigan was 7 the first time he stepped onstage. And he was terrified. Debilitating stage fright, which he would struggle with for decades, would have led [...]

The actor's first substantial TV role since the Soviet spy drama ''The Americans'' finds her switching sides, starring as a savvy civil servant tasked with upholding America's reputation abroad. On [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the 'Killing Eve' star's first stage role. She dared herself to do it. Until last year, the actress Jodie Comer [...]

In David Auburn's new play, ''Summer, 1976,'' the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair. Alice and Diana don't like each other very much. [...]

In its final season, the pioneering Amazon hit wanted to go out the way it came in: fabulously, in heels and with a dizzying words-to-minutes ratio. On a morning in [...]

The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the ''Killing Eve'' star's first stage role. She dared herself to do it. Until last year, the actress Jodie Comer had never performed [...]

As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy. With ''The Phantom of the Opera'' set to [...]

As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy. With “The Phantom of the Opera” set to [...]

In its final season, the pioneering Amazon hit wanted to go out the way it came in: fabulously, in heels and with a dizzying words-to-minutes ratio. On a morning in [...]

Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer's the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This April, in New York, when the rains have [...]

Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This April, in New York, when the rains have [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski On a recent afternoon, the actor Greg Tannahill sat perched atop a London rooftop, one leg extended, one arm outthrust. A pair of carpenters would then whisk [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski LOS ANGELES - John Owen Lowe was 11 or 12 when he first realized that his father wasn't quite like the other dads. So what was it [...]

On a recent afternoon, the actor Greg Tannahill sat perched atop a London rooftop, one leg extended, one arm outthrust. A pair of carpenters would then whisk Tannahill from his [...]

Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them. The butterflies enter first, quivering gaily [...]

Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them. The butterflies enter first, quivering gaily [...]

LOS ANGELES -- John Owen Lowe was 11 or 12 when he first realized that his father wasn't quite like the other dads. So what was it like to grow [...]

Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater. ''Sancocho,'' a new play by Christin Eve Cato, [...]

Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater. “https://wptheater.org/show/sancocho/,” a new play by https://www.christinevecato.com/, begins long [...]

Looking for something good? ''Succession'' and ''Yellowjackets'' are back. Or try a new musical series from a team of Broadway all-stars. This weekend I have ... an hour, and my [...]

Looking for something good? “Succession” and “Yellowjackets” are back. Or try a new musical series from a team of Broadway all-stars. This weekend I have … an hour, and my [...]

In series like ''Yellowjackets,'' the actor specializes in revealing the turbulent emotions of women who seem innocuous and mild on the surface. WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- ''I am a quiet [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Keith Bunin's gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle. A northbound trip on [...]

In series like “Yellowjackets,” the actor specializes in revealing the turbulent emotions of women who seem innocuous and mild on the surface. WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — “I am a quiet [...]

Keith Bunin's gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle. A northbound trip on the Coast Starlight, [...]

At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes. LA JOLLA, Calif. -- No [...]

At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes. LA JOLLA, Calif. — No [...]

These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months. Arinzé Kene LONDON -- [...]

The invitations have been sent, the appetizers plated, the bottles opened. Rows of glasses gleam like baby stars. And somewhere, on the fringes of the celebration, a cater waiter is [...]

Mark Chavez thought that it would be so simple. Chavez, a Vancouver-based actor and comic, had seen plenty of romantic comedies. He understood the deep structure of the genre, the [...]

An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe's production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu. The midcentury novelist Dawn Powell, Greenwich Village's great chronicler, wrote that [...]

Billy Crudup's father, Thomas Henry Crudup III, was a gambler, a hustler, an occasional loan shark and a bookie of questionable gift. Sometimes on the way to his son's weekend [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Billy Crudup's father, Thomas Henry Crudup III, was a gambler, a hustler, an occasional loan shark and a bookie of questionable gift. Sometimes on the way to [...]

The first major New York revival of ''The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,'' Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long? Lorraine Hansberry's ''The [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The first major New York revival of 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,' Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long? [...]

A master at the top of his game, the magician Asi Wind performs fluidly and with obvious pleasure. The magician Asi Wind makes no claims to supernatural ability or superhuman [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski Jason Segel knows that you like him. It's the sad eyes. The pained smile. The shambling 6-foot-4-inch frame that he diminishes by caving in his chest. It's [...]

The actor thought he was done with Dan Fielding. But more than 30 years later, Larroquette is back to see if he can make his most famous character funny again. [...]

The Public Theater's experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display. 'Your Sexts Are [...]

The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed. Stop me if you've heard this one before: A woman. A [...]

Literary influences suffuse this year's festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them. ''A story,'' the director Yngvild Aspeli said, ''is something that makes [...]

The actor K. Todd Freeman has worked with Steppenwolf Theater since 1993. His roles, however challenging, usually don't exact a personal toll. Bruce Norris's incendiary ''Downstate,'' which debuted at that [...]

A play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact -- but nothing else. The first scripted performance in colonial [...]

''I didn't realize it until yesterday, but now I am sad,'' said White, who watched the season finale with Coolidge on Sunday night. Mike White always knew how it would [...]

As norms around marriage and divorce have evolved over the decades, so have their depictions on television, mostly recently in series like ''George & Tammy,'' ''Better Things'' and ''The Split.'' [...]

In a time of renewed awakening, a surprising number of shows smartly reflected those changes in song. Best Theater of 2022 | Unforgettable Experiences A Year That Kept on Singing, [...]

Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh's artful examination of the emotional price of immigration. A young man in a fine suit outlines the terms of [...]

''Sort Of,'' the melancholy comedy loosely based on the performer's life and experiences, returns for its second season on HBO Max on Dec. 1. Only a few minutes after the [...]