Going to the movies is a fun and unwinding action for numerous individuals. The huge screen, encompass sound, and shared involvement can be energizing. In any case, for a few...

The world has been impatiently awaiting the final episodes of Stranger Things, and that time is almost upon us. The popular Netflix series has been followed by the Hawkins gang of Eleven, Mike,...

Curious about who’s playing at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC) today? If so — great address. SPAC shows many concerts and exhibits. There may be something different each night. This web journal will help...

When you’re arranging to capture the most recent blockbuster or a classic film in the theater, the first thing you require to know is the motion picture theater showtimes. Whether...

Netflix’s The Final Proposal: Strange Adore captured hearts, started talks about, and broke modern ground for LGBTQ+ representation in reality TV. With its candidly crude minutes, sensational ultimatums, and trailblazing...

As the sector turns into more digital, the movie enterprise faces considered one of its biggest challenges but. With the rise of streaming platforms like Netflix and Disney+, the future...

To know what is mixed martial arts? Rebecca Yarros' Onyx Storm and its cliffhanger finishing, which left readers questioning what passed off to the lacking dragon eggs and what happened throughout...

Why is Tim McGraw not in the Grand Ole Opry? A single Music City's most enduring symbols is the Grand Ole Opry Being accepted into the elite club signifies reaching the highest...

Does San Antonio Have a 4dx Movie Theater? The mid year crush is getting back to exploit the roller coaster like film experience that is 4DX. Yet, there are less areas...

The Blue Ridge Community Theater is a functioning piece of the rich embroidery of the locale, and we are glad to be an individual from the Blue Ridge Community Theater. Neighborhood volunteers...

Recently I had an opportunity to see an early screening of The Maker, the new film by Gareth Edwards. As overseer of movies like Godzilla, and Rebel One: A Star...

The best performance centers in New York are valid famous tourist spots of the after-supper diversion in the city that won't ever rest. New York City is quite possibly of...

Bold takes on classic works defined theater in Germany for decades. But many playhouses are turning to new works by international dramatists.BERLIN — Germany has a rich tradition of dramatists,...

Nearly 60 cast and crew members have tested positive since rehearsals began. Now, following a 10-day shutdown during previews, opening night is near.As soon as Hugh Jackman learned that the...

He drew on his own experiences in the Marines to depict brutality within the corps, drawing acclaim Off Off Broadway.Kenneth H. Brown, a New York playwright whose acclaimed 1963 Off...

The Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn’t quite right then and isn’t quite right now.When 8:30 p.m. was a typical curtain time for Broadway...

Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.More than 25 years later, John Douglas Thompson...

Two new plays offer very different experiences of the sanitarium, one starring Mark Rylance and the other spotlighting a fast-rising actress.LONDON — “Wash your hands! Wash your hands!” That plea...

A new jukebox musical tells the story of Michael Jackson. Except for the big story.“There are a lot of strange stories making the rounds,” says a documentary filmmaker interviewing Michael...

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 Theater,...

Also on the bill for this free outdoor program is the choreographer’s U.S. premiere of “Quad,” a wordless television play by Samuel Beckett. To make a dance to some of Handel’s...

As a spirited impresario of public relations, he promoted entertainers, films and the “I Love New York” tourism campaign. Bobby Zarem, the exuberant press agent who fulfilled his childhood fantasies by...

The film director set himself a steep challenge in his debut stage work. At least for now, he hasn’t quite met it. LISBON — Gus Van Sant is no stranger to...

Four interpretations of the Greek myth have been produced in the German capital, all with resonances for our moment. BERLIN — “The city reeks with death in her streets,” the chorus...

The Tony-nominated actor and comedian discusses his love for overalls, citrus trees and trying to sell his teenage daughter on Frank Sinatra. David Alan Grier is riveted by jack rabbits. “I saw...

The innovative Brooklyn performing arts space is moving three L stops away, to a former dairy plant in Bushwick — and prepping for a new chapter as a neighborhood cultural...

I made the calculations before I traveled, and decided to go for it. Double masked, I stepped off the plane and set off for a week of theater. LONDON — I...

The punchline is “Only an Octave Apart,” featuring the unlikely collaborators Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse. “This show has been 10 years in the making,”...

In Julie Mayo’s “Nerve Show” at Target Margin Theater, thwarted impulses express themselves both through movement and attempts at speech. As the grand reopening of Broadway continued this week, a smaller...

With “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope,” she became the first woman to write the book, music and lyrics of a Broadway musical. Micki Grant, who in the early 1970s became...

This verbatim hockey drama considers issues of masculinity and the peculiar ownership that fans feel toward a team and its players. The 2017 season didn’t start too badly. The New York...

As the Delta variant spreads, Signature Theater delayed its planned October opening of “Infinite Life,” a new play by Annie Baker. Signature Theater, a prominent Off Broadway nonprofit, has postponed its...

“Islander,” a skewed look at a New York Islanders season, examines extreme fandom, violence and the thrill of sports. Hockey is a brutal game: In what other sport are missing teeth...

When readers need information immediately, teams of journalists collaborate to tell a single unfolding story. Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how...

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 to...

Joshua Safran’s “Gossip Girl” reboot filmed a scene from an imaginary work by the “Slave Play” playwright. Then the Public Theater commissioned it. We hear him before we see him come...

These worthy and adventurous lockdown experiments too often give short shrift to the relationship between a script and how an audience takes it in. For the last year and a half,...

Edward Einhorn’s “Alma Baya” is the bleak, humor-flecked tale of two clones on a distant planet who let a third inside their walls. Inside their white-walled home on the surface of...

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Michel Robin, an award-winning French actor who became a familiar face...

Through recessions and blizzards and other upheavals, Ebenezer Scrooge has drawn small children and big money to his redemption story in “A Christmas Carol.” Stage adaptations of the tale, which generally...

We all have our holiday traditions. Maybe yours is seeing the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall and gazing at the Rockefeller Center tree, all done up in lights. Well,...

BEN It’s kind of crazy that every twist and turn has somehow worked out for both of us, barring the pandemic. Our first date was at the end of high...

On Feb. 2, 1922, the body of the Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor, shot once in the back, was found on the floor of his plush Los Angeles bungalow. The...

PARIS — What would you pick as your last show before lockdown? The night before theaters closed for a second lockdown in France, slapstick suddenly felt appropriate. The somber preshow mood...

Time flies when you’re having no fun. Take the four main characters in the English language premiere of Gabrielle Chapdelaine’s “A Day,” produced by the Cherry Artists’ Collective in Ithaca, N.Y....

Art & Museums Phone Booths With a Message Hans Haacke’s “Wir (alle) sind das Volk [We (all) are the people]” (2003/2020) is among the works installed on phone booths along Sixth Avenue...

Too many experimental playwrights disappear into the ether, their reputation sustained by academic essays and word of mouth. Revivals? Let’s just say that Arthur Miller largely trumps Richard Foreman when...

This Veterans Day I hesitated before texting my friend Jasper. Reflexively chipper, he typically shrugs off the topic of his military service, having only once described to me a mission...

Paula Madrid, a trauma psychologist specializing in resiliency training in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, thought she had mastered the art of working, parenting and tending to her parents. Then...

When my phone rang very early on a September morning and a number from Finland appeared on the screen, I immediately thought, “The project is dead.” Amid the ever-worsening pandemic, I...

Could we get a volunteer up here? That’s not an invitation theater fans are likely to hear from an actor on a physical stage anytime soon, but it is the beguiling...

Lynn Kellogg Simpers, a singer and actress who, as Lynn Kellogg, played Sheila, the uptight debutante who turns into a free-spirited hippie in the original 1968 Broadway production of “Hair,”...

A stagehand died Thursday morning after falling from a ladder on the fly floor above the stage at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theater. The 54-year-old man fell from the narrow, raised platform...

Israel Horovitz, an influential and oft-produced playwright whose career was tarnished by accusations by multiple women that he had sexually assaulted them, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan....

Broadway may be dark for several months to come, but actors from four shuttered shows have been given the opportunity — a rare one during the coronavirus pandemic — to...

Jason We lost our jobs on the same day and were both home because of the pandemic shutdown. I went into a depression. I couldn’t get out of bed. I...

Theatergoers don’t often get to boss performers around. I’ll be frank: It’s fun. At least it was fun during the streaming show “Readymade Cabaret 2.0,” when the audience turned Jonathan Matthews...

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. Monday Tune in to a concert...

Hours after sunset, our team had finally decrypted the poems and exposed the nine oracles. With the traitor in our midst unmasked and the guardian revealed, the portal to the...

LONDON — The theater scene here has long been celebrated for offering food for thought, but recently it’s also been likely to offer actual food. Or, at the very least,...

Officials in Jersey City could not be blamed for worrying a bit on Tuesday about the referendum they placed on the ballot to create a new tax to help the...

Ready for the most shocking part of Sarah Kane’s “Crave,” a throat punch of a play livestreamed by the Chichester Festival Theater through Saturday? Here it is: a live audience....

I’m 15 years old and here is my question: When was the moment you fully trusted yourself and your opinions as a critic? ELLA BRITTON, Brooklyn I don’t think I would...

If you had asked me, sometime before this past March, to define theater, I might have hazarded something like this: an art form including at least one actor and at...

It’s all Byron’s fault. Before James Dean and Gary Cooper and Heathcliff and Rochester — all the real and fictional men lounging at the center of the Venn diagram of...

AVIGNON, France — Festivalgoers who cross the medieval ramparts of Avignon are used to being greeted with a riot of activity. Every July, thousands of posters cover the city’s walls...

Pop & Rock A Bounty of At-Home Entertainment Circuit des Yeux will do one last virtual performance on Saturday at Constellation Chicago’s YouTube channel. Credit...Ed Bornstein Best to stay in this Halloween weekend, lest...

The actress Phillipa Soo, who played Eliza in the Broadway smash “Hamilton,” has always considered herself politically minded. But it wasn’t until the 2016 election that she became active...

Sheldon Harnick met his future wife, Margery Gray, in 1960, when she was auditioning for his new Broadway musical, “Tenderloin.” Try as she might, Mrs. Harnick, now a photographer and artist,...

A group of eight small theaters and comedy clubs in New York City has filed a lawsuit challenging the closing of their venues during the coronavirus pandemic. The lawsuit, filed Friday...

The 1936 presidential election was mere days away, in a United States brought to its knees by the Great Depression, when the Federal Theater Project rolled out a headline-grabbing new...

LONDON — “Dear Evan Hansen,” the hit musical about an anxious teenager who takes advantage of a fateful encounter with a schoolmate, was one of the big winners at the...

Early in the pandemic, Matthew Warchus, the artistic director of London’s Old Vic theater, got a lot of attention in the British press for his dire warning about the existential...

It’s gala season, when nonprofit organizations host their biggest fund-raising events of the year. Many of those events have been canceled or postponed because of the pandemic, but others have...

Edith O’Hara, who started the 13th Street Repertory Company in Greenwich Village in 1972 and made it a quirky mainstay of New York’s Off Off Broadway scene, keeping it going...

It’s not surprising that a staggering number of traditional Halloween festivities have been canceled or curtailed this year. Trick-or-treating? It depends on where you live. Haunted houses? Yes, but also...

MUNICH — Barbara Mundel had hoped to start her tenure as artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele here with an outdoor production featuring 150 Munich residents in a colorful self-portrait...

Tony Todd, the veteran horror star, has found himself in an unusual state: He’s scared. But not of what comes after you say “Candyman” five times in the mirror or...

Anthony Chisholm, an actor who was among the foremost interpreters of August Wilson, appearing in dozens of productions of that playwright’s works, both on Broadway and in leading regional theaters,...

Quick etymology lesson: The word utopia comes from the Greek. It means “no place.” So maybe it makes sense that Charles L. Mee’s new play “Utopia,” produced by San Francisco’s...

Nurses are known to be caring, patient, full of equanimity. You don’t go into the profession for cushy hours and padded salaries, and nurses are selflessly devoted to their jobs...

It’s taken almost 25 years but Lois Smith is once again a Tony Award nominee, this time for her performance as Margaret in Matthew Lopez’s play “The Inheritance.” (Her most...

Here’s what you need to know: ‘Jagged Little Pill’ leads the race for best new musical, followed closely by ‘Moulin Rouge!’ ‘Slave Play’ makes history with the most nominations for a play. ‘A...

The first thing you should do when you’re ready to watch “David Byrne’s American Utopia” — and you should watch this exuberant concert movie from Spike Lee — is clear...

The artistic director of the Huntington Theater Company in Boston has resigned, the company said on Wednesday, after months of upheaval over the workplace environment and an airing of grievances...

Conchata Ferrell, the award-winning theater actress who became a television star as the gruff housekeeper of a toxic Malibu bachelor on the sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” died on...

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. Monday Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with...

Was ever a man so lordly brought so low? Having contracted the same deadly virus he formerly dismissed as someone else’s pandemic, he now lies in hospital, depending on a...

For purposes of clarity and in keeping with this publication’s style guidelines, I’m going to refer to Radha, the main character in “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” by her first name. The...

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Maurice Edwards, whose long and varied résumé included directing operas and...

PARIS — Who isn’t yearning for lost time right now? Surely a new stage production inspired by Marcel Proust’s sprawling, seven-volume saga, “In Search of Lost Time,” will nod to...

If the livestreamed show “Zoo Motel” were happening in person instead of on our computer screens, we would probably get a neat little packet of items upon arrival at the...

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. Monday Hitch a ride to the...

Murray Schisgal, a playwright and screenwriter who took his offbeat brand of humor to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning comedy “Luv” and to Hollywood in the hit farce “Tootsie,” died...

Maybe it’s not so hard to know what people are thinking right now. If you approached random adults in my corner of Brooklyn and hazarded “vaccine” or “the election” or...

Facing enormous financial strain because of the shutdown of the theater industry, the health insurance fund that covers thousands of stage actors is making it more difficult for them to...

White actors, writers and directors still dominate Broadway stages, according to an annual report released on Wednesday by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition in partnership with the American Theater...

Black theaters across the country will receive a significant financial boost thanks to a multimillion-dollar program announced today by the Billie Holiday Theater, a Black-led artistic institution in Brooklyn. The initiative,...

Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” was a genuine provocation during its 1968 Off Broadway run. An account of a gay man’s birthday party in the West Village,...

Tony Tanner, a versatile actor, writer and director whose biggest Broadway success was directing “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in 1982, a production that helped make that musical a...

Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. Monday Follow a virtual service for...

Some of the nation’s most prominent philanthropists and foundations announced plans on Thursday to donate more than $156 million to help arts organizations run by people of color recover from...

Glenn Close’s cheeks are bruised, her eyes half-closed; a clear oxygen tube snakes out of her nostrils under a mop of disheveled gray hair. The lamp on her night stand...

The Artist Relief fund, a national coalition of arts grantmakers that distributes $5,000 grants to creative professionals affected by the coronavirus pandemic, has awarded $13.5 million to 2,700 individuals since...

LONDON — Can we get his doctor’s number? That’s a question that might occur to viewers of “Beat the Devil,” the 50-minute solo play at the Bridge Theater here, in which...

Every September, stages around the country spring back to life after the summer slowdown. This year, however, all usual bets are off as theaters ponder not just their fall seasons,...

Sophocles knew: Every family has its issues. And in his famed Theban plays, the social ramifications of this are devastating. In “Oedipus Rex,” Oedipus kills his father and beds his...

The first time I ever saw Michael Sheen, he was blazing like the sun. He was 30 then, making his Broadway debut as a divinely inspired, impishly behaved Mozart in...

Broadway shows may be off the table until at least January, but when shows do resume, New York City Center is giving two musicals that focus on people of color,...

Steve Carter, an award-winning playwright who explored the African-American and Caribbean-American experiences with incisiveness, humor and a willingness to wrestle with difficult themes, including hatred, revenge and forgiveness, died on...

VENICE — Imagine if Lincoln Center handed the keys to its theaters to little-known American companies for a season. Or if France’s Avignon Festival, one of the biggest theater events...

The nearest audience member to me on the August evening I saw the socially distanced “Godspell” revival in Pittsfield, Mass., was a dog lying cozily on a blanket next to...

The instant the string quartet finished, the police car was there: red and blue lights flashing, siren screaming as it approached. On Saturday evening in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a masked crowd had...

Because “Six” involves only six people onstage, the show will need few changes because of the coronavirus.Credit...Eleanor Howarth LONDON — “Six,” the hit show about the ill-fated wives of King Henry...

On the night I watched several of the short plays that make up “Here We Are,” I was at my laptop in the living room while one roommate cooked dinner...

As theaters look to see how they might reopen with safety accommodations including mask use, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it will likely be more than a year before people feel...

In 1993, Paul Rudnick made his mark as a comedic writer who took on serious issues with “Jeffrey,” a play that captured the strained social tenor of AIDS-ravaged Manhattan. At...

During the first few months of the pandemic pause, between Zoom readings and Instagram monologues, I often found myself pondering the question of genre: What’s a play and what isn’t?...

It has now been six months since American theater turned off its lights and embarked on a quest to simply exist. Tracking the ever-mutating world of streaming theater for this...

This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Cecilia Romo turned to acting too late in life to become...

It’s a ridiculous result of the restrictions of livestreamed theater that one of the best performances to emerge from the new medium is also one you might never get to...

I admit I have a problem with Shakespeare’s tragedies. Most are brilliant until the middle of Act III, at which point they quickly slide down a hill of blood into...

In 1978, Salome Bey gathered Black actors and musicians together for a rehearsal of “Indigo,” a musical revue she wrote and starred in about the evolution of the blues. She...

When it was released in 2005, critics were not particularly kind to the film adaptation of “Rent.” The New York Times called it “occasionally silly, often melodramatic and never subtle.” Even...

When it was released in 2005, critics were not particularly kind to the film adaptation of “Rent.” The New York Times called it “occasionally silly, often melodramatic and never subtle.” Even...

LONDON — Well, it’s a start. “Sleepless: A Musical Romance,” which opened on Tuesday at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theater, is more noteworthy for what it represents than for the show...

As the editor of the Culture department at The New York Times, Gilbert Cruz relies on critics, reporters and editors in every field of the arts for their expertise. Now...

“We cross infinity with every step; we meet eternity in every second,” wrote Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore could have been talking about the beautifully labyrinthine work of the Argentine writer Jorge...

Theater is a physical art form, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that its expanded online presence is here to stay, especially as the web smooths out issues of collaboration...

The tent is moving. The preshow picnics and riverside views are staying. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a bucolic staple of New York summer theater at the Boscobel House and Gardens...

Once upon a time I thought all theater was Broadway. My early years as a freelance critic taught me differently. One summer I caught a tiny, low-budget production of “A...

The Public Theater, a leading Off Broadway nonprofit, is giving small grants to several hundred freelance artists as many grapple with the impact of joblessness and expiring unemployment benefits. The theater...

Most Augusts, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe presents thousands of live performances in the Scottish capital, saving some of its most unusual specimens for a subfestival called the Zoo. Not this...

Tony Awards administrators have decided to hold an online ceremony this fall to honor shows that opened before the coronavirus pandemic shuttered Broadway. The American Theater Wing and the Broadway League...

Kenneth Bernard, a playwright who rattled the expectations of audiences and critics with avant-garde works staged by the Playhouse of the Ridiculous and other theatrical groups in New York and...

With most outdoor venues shut this summer, The New York Times last month asked performers and directors to recall their experiences working among the elements. Our critic got nostalgic, too....

Sandra Marvin had just dropped her plants off with a friend in March, in anticipation of a three-month U.S. tour performing in the musical comedy “Romantics Anonymous.” She checked her...

If you had to select the least likely play to translate to Zoom, it might well be Kristoffer Diaz’s “The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity.” A 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist,...

Billy Goldenberg, an Emmy-winning composer who worked with Barbra Streisand and Elvis Presley, scored Steven Spielberg’s early work and wrote the theme music for more than a dozen television series,...

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The emailed instructions from the box office tell you to put on your mask before you even get out of your car. Off the parking lot, the...

LONDON — David Chapple began planning his trip to the 2020 Edinburgh Festival Fringe a year ago, since you can’t be too prepared when you hold the world record for...

Two closely watched summer theater productions — the first in the U.S. with union actors since the coronavirus pandemic exploded — are being required to reduce their seating capacity to...

Dance Travel the World From Home Finding a safe harbor in a forest: Sreelakshmy Govardhanan will appear in a woodland performance for the Battery Dance Festival on Saturday. Credit...Santu Brahma If this were a...

LONDON — Finally, some light in the darkness. The Donmar Warehouse has made stage history as the first playhouse here to open its doors to a paying public in the...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. This summer, The New York Times is commemorating the 100th anniversary...

A white woman eating an apple walks into a subway car and sits near a Black man. She alternatively taunts and flirts with him and offers him one apple, then...

Brent Carver, a sensitive, soft-spoken yet nakedly emotional Canadian actor and singer who won a Tony Award for his starring role in the 1993 musical “Kiss of the Spider Woman,”...

A major Broadway advertising agency has sued the powerful producer Scott Rudin, claiming he owes the company $6.3 million. The litigation, filed in New York State Supreme Court, is an unusual...

Two years ago, T: The New York Times Style Magazine published the photographs of more than a hundred of the city’s artists who had died of H.I.V./AIDS — a shocking...

The lobby of the New Ohio Theater was simultaneously comforting and spooky on a recent evening. Look, it’s the ticket counter! And there’s the concession stand, now with LaCroix water...

Eric Bentley, an influential theater critic — as well as a scholar, author and playwright — who was an early champion of modern European drama and an unsparing antagonist of...

For the first time in 87 years, the show at Radio City Music Hall won’t go on, the owner of the venue said Tuesday. “We regret that the 2020 production of...

Adam Max, an investment manager who became a leading patron of Brooklyn cultural institutions, notably the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where he had been board chairman since 2017, died on...

As the pandemic has sent most art forms scurrying into mole holes, some have had to adapt more than others. In the theater, the change has been especially pronounced, amounting...

LONDON — These days, it’s via streaming that theater lovers here get their fix, and a look through some of the available archived performances can be revealing. What was a...