Chris Tierney, Spider-Man's stunt double in the musical.
When “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” returns to previews, several of Julie Taymor’s ideas will be gone.
“By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” imagines the back story of one of those talented black actresses seen on 1930s movie screens almost exclusively in the roles of maids, slaves or mammies.
The executive committee of the City University of New York trustees approved an honorary doctorate for the playwright, who has made controversial remarks about Israel.
The project's commercial producers expressed optimism that they would move the show to New York after its premiere run at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
Small stirrings of the heart and mind evoke delicate musical responses in “A Minister’s Wife,” a chamber musical based on “Candida,” George Bernard Shaw’s comedy about the mysteries of marital love.
The test is whether the adaptation of the quintessential stories of San Francisco in the 1970s has a life beyond the city.
Two playwrights, Daniel Goldfarb and Jonathan Marc Sherman, talk about the experience of becoming fathers and the influence that has had on their work.
A listing of summer theater in the United States and Canada.
Derek Jacobi helps make Michael Grandage’s production of “King Lear” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a true entertainment.
News, photos, analysis and more on the nominees for the 65th annual Tony Awards.
A selected guide to theater performances in New York.
“Beyond Therapy,” Christopher Durang’s absurdist comedy about searching for a love connection through the personals, is the season-opener at the Westport Country Playhouse.
When “Curtains,” about a murder mystery on the set of a show, made it to Broadway, its star won a Tony Award. Now, it’s at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
“Night Train,” a new play by John Biguenet at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, takes viewers on a journey into darkening deception.
“Boston Marriage,” a three-woman play set in Victorian New England, is not characteristic Mamet.
The long-awaited new play by Tony Kushner is a densely textured portrait of a Brooklyn family losing its (strictly secular) religion.
“Carson McCullers Talks About Love,” Suzanne Vega’s mixture of nightclub act and theater piece at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a funky ramble through McCullers’s life.
Humor is found in the grim setting of a not-so-distant time in Laurel Haines’s “Future Anxiety,” now at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
The Sloan Foundation has become a major backer of science-theme art, especially on the stage and in film.
Arthur Laurents stands alone as a writer who owes his lasting fame to his authorship of two great musical books.
My children are immersed in a world of iPads and text messages, but I was pleased that my teenage son and preteen daughter could nevertheless be charmed by “Anything Goes.”
An extraordinary, active empathy pervades every one of Tony Kushner's plays, extended even to those who would not appear to be his allies.
Randy Weiner has pioneered a hybrid form of entertainment that unites experimental theater with the boozy energy of a nightclub.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
This week: Charles Isherwood on how nuns are taking center stage this season.
An interactive tour through the Jacobs and the Broadway theaters and an expanded interactive look at the histories of each theater on Broadway.
Interviews with performers, designers and others in the theater, on Broadway and off.
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