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Byline: Alexis Papalia Jan. 6For theater lovers in Pittsburgh, 2025 is a year full of the promise of great shows. From national tours to community theater, well-worn favorites to world [...]

The company's 2023-24 lineup includes works by Michael R. Jackson, Anna K. Jacobs, David Adjmi and Will Butler of Arcade Fire. Playwrights Horizons will present three large-scale productions and three [...]

The production, a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, received no Tony nominations on Tuesday. Its last show will be May 14. This season's Broadway revival of ''Dancin','' a [...]

Byline: Paul Guggenheimer Mar. 12It's as Pittsburgh as Primantis sandwiches and parking chairs Tami Dixon's 'South Side Stories Revisited' kicks off the 2024 portion of the City Theatre's 2023-24 season [...]

The fall season also features Ralph Fiennes, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Katie Couric and Ken Burns. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Katie Couric and Ralph Fiennes are among the array of actors, authors [...]

The 20th anniversary Broadway revival will be directed by Kenny Leon. Previews begin in September at the John Golden Theater. Corey Hawkins and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will star this fall [...]

Nearly 20 years after opening on Broadway, plans for a movie version of ''Wicked'' are finally accelerating. And last month, the film's director, Jon M. Chu gave fans a peek [...]

The actress, known for ''The Walking Dead'' and ''Black Panther,'' will headline a return to semi-normal for the annual festival, which will also present ''As You Like It.'' The Public [...]

A multimedia performance, ''Specially Processed American Me ,'' will show at Dixon Place on the Lower East Side. Spam, the tinned pork product created by Hormel Foods 85 years ago, [...]

''Girl From the North Country,'' a musical using the songs of Bob Dylan, also closed, with hopes of reopening in the spring, as the surge in virus cases continues to [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine Dec. 13Penn Middle Drama Club students are preparing to welcome a live audience for the first time in two years, staging the Charles Dickens classic 'A Christmas [...]

The playwright ended a run of ''Paradise Blue'' a week after it opened at the Geffen Playhouse. The theater acknowledged ''missteps.'' The playwright Dominique Morisseau has ended the run of [...]

With a debuting pianist and conductor, a solo by Clara Schumann preceded works by her husband and Brahms. Hasn't the New York Philharmonic been through enough? Closed for a year [...]

Visa delays are causing tumult in the classical music industry, leading to a wave of cancellations just as live performances are finally returning. When the Seattle Symphony finally performed before [...]

The digital season will include the premieres of four commissioned pieces and new duets by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring. Baryshnikov Arts Center will hold another free online season before [...]

A version of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is planned, along with the company's puppet series, an examination of the Tulsa Race Massacre and more. In a season that is expected [...]

''The Visitor'' and ''cullud wattah,'' two shows postponed by the pandemic, will get their premieres alongside works by James Ijames, Shaina Taub and Lloyd Suh. The Public Theater's 2021-22 season [...]

New work by Bill T. Jones, Colleen Thomas, Christopher Williams and Raja Feather Kelly will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Manhattan arts center. The coming season at New York [...]

An adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's ''Notes on Grief,'' Russell Brand's take on Shakespeare and a two-day event anchored by a Milo Rau film are among the highlights. Productions from [...]

From the Williamstown Theater Festival to New York Stage and Film, theatergoers can experience world premieres, concerts and more. Most summers, as tourists pour into New York City to see [...]

The free, beloved summer tradition will enjoy an extended run, but currently plans very limited capacity, with masks required. One of New York City's hottest tickets is about to get [...]

Byline: Michael DiVittorio Apr. 27When Erin Kesser was pondering about the kind of musical to christen the new Thomas Jefferson High School theater, she could not come up with just [...]

''The Seven Deadly Sins,'' a theatrical anthology series, will start off on June 23 at a series of storefront windows in the Meatpacking District. After enjoying a successful run in [...]

Among the offerings are a well-matched double bill, Ute Lemper's tribute to Marlene Dietrich and a virtual revival of Michel Legrand's musical ''Amour.'' Theater audiences have become more like movie [...]

Nearly 2,000 performers have petitioned Actors' Equity for guidelines that will speed up a return to the stage. As states around the nation move toward reopening, theater actors and stage [...]

Presentations include a star-studded reading of ''The Thanksgiving Play,'' musicals crossing the Atlantic and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Theater has faced many battles in the past year, and one of [...]

The return of Shakespeare to Central Park is among the most visible signs that theaters, orchestras and opera companies aim to return to the stage -- outdoors. The path back [...]

The slate of commissioned works for reduced capacity audiences involves the artists Bill T. Jones, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson. Live, in-person performances will return to Park Avenue Armory on [...]

Several performances this spring, including a new work by Ayodele Casel, will be recorded onstage at this dance dedicated theater. Ayodele Casel will debut a new work in April as [...]

Byline: Kristina Serafini Jan. 17After being postponed for about a month, Diamond Theatre of Ligonier is presenting its original play 'The Christmas Eve Diner Dilemma' this weekend. The show, written [...]

New York clubs beef up digital offerings, and two theater adaptations of ''Night of the Living Dead'' arrive in time for Halloween. Among life's great pleasures is having your mind [...]

How can you get your cultural fix when many arts institutions remain closed? Our writers offer suggestions for what to listen to and watch. About a Love Letter to the [...]

Festivals from Sydney and Edinburgh move online, and Richard Nelson mixes in another of his theatrical franchises to conclude a Zoom trilogy. Theater is a physical art form, but it [...]

For the first time in its 73-year history, the hugely influential festival is canceled. Devoted fans and theater makers are finding ways to keep the spirit alive. LONDON -- David [...]

Manual Cinema, a Chicago arts collective, is highlighting four of its productions -- vivacious hybrids of film and theater -- in a virtual retrospective. A Manual Cinema show can often [...]

A new play by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of the 1980s and '90s sitcom, will bring the show's characters into the present day. ''Designing Women'' is under renovation. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, [...]

The performance artist will take viewers to the moon as part of the Public Theater's next lineup of international artists. It has been a point of interest for Galileo and [...]

'VICTOR' AT AXIS THEATER (Through Oct. 26) This new solo show from Edgar Oliver (above), a chronicle of his friendship and love affair with a homeless man, closes its doors. [...]

CIRCA AT THE GERALD W. LYNCH THEATER AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE (Wednesday and Thursday, 7:30 p.m.; through Oct. 25) ''En Masse'' (above), the work that this Australian dance-theater-circus troupe is [...]

'WIVES' AT PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS (Through Oct. 6) Jaclyn Backhaus's comedy, about the subjugation of women throughout the ages, ends its Off Broadway run. Ben Brantley noted that the time-jumping play, [...]

'THE ROLLING STONE' AT THE MITZI E. NEWHOUSE THEATER AT LINCOLN CENTER THEATER (Through Sunday) Chris Urch's play, about two brothers in a Uganda consumed by violent homophobia, comes to [...]

'TWO'S A CROWD' AT 59E59 (Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2 p.m.) This weekend the curtain closes on this musical comedy starring Rita Rudner (right) and [...]