The National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages, which ran for its 37th year Oct. 23-24, offers an annual chance to reflect on the state of new musicals and ...

Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck’s new musical at La Jolla Playhouse, based on the hit film, eyes the absurdities of the 1980s work culture—and the inequalities that are still with us. But Lauper isn’t ...

A new partnership between the Naples Players and Naples Comprehensive Health will aim to harness the healing power of the arts for patients and healthcare providers. “ArtRX is built on a simple but ...

For the first time in forever, experience the magic of Disney’s Frozen at the Norshor Theatre. Full of humor, thrilling surprises, and a stunning musical score, this awe-inspiring production is a ...

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On a September afternoon at New York City’s 42nd Street Studios, the cast and crew of Allegiance are gathering to rehearse their musical. The cast is a who’s who of notable Asian-American faces. On ...

Jeremy O. Harris talks about the sexual politics of white supremacy, and about how he finds humor in horror (and vice versa). Jeremy O. Harris. (Photo by Andre D. Wagner for the New York Times) TONYA ...

Phantoms playing hide-and-seek, lighting with a mind of its own, floating shadows, and more fill our annual assortment of tales about haunted theatres. When in 1998 Hilary Prue began working as an ...

Recently I went to see a play at an Off-Broadway theatre that I love, a production I found remarkably profound. I was in town for only a day, and redeye jetlag fatigue or not, I was going to the show ...

This piece is one in a series on disability and theatre. Many years ago, a writer emailed me to ask if I’d consult with the originating cast of their new production with an autistic central character.

What the tangled history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater in Dallas can teach us about the stages of tomorrow. It was not Wright’s work alone. The Kalita was also shaped by the ...

John Simon, the infamously vitriolic theatre critic who held the top post at New York magazine more or less uninterrupted from 1968 to 2005, died over the weekend. He was 94. This is one of two ...