Theater

The actress, nominated for an Emmy and Golden Globe for her performance in “Roots,” is still going strong with appearances in the TV series “Fallout” and the upcoming movie “Deadpool & Wolverine.”

By Leigh-Ann Jackson

The veteran British actress shines in a new revival that is the musical theater highlight of the West End summer.

By Matt Wolf

The renowned Harlem theater will be the first institution to receive the honor. Artists being recognized are Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval and the Grateful Dead.

By Annie Aguiar

Krysta Rodriguez has found an avid audience for her new side business: creating dramatic interiors.

By Juan A. Ramírez

The 20 recipients, including a Broadway composer, a Marvel video game voice actress and a three-time Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, are the initiative’s final cohort.

By Sarah Bahr

Jakob Karr, from “So You Think You Can Dance?,” has conceived and choreographed a show set to songs by the country musician Orville Peck.

By Brian Seibert

The creators of “Inspired by True Events” wanted their new immersive theater piece to convey ominousness, not a haunted-house riff on “Noises Off.”

By Erik Piepenburg

Try this short quiz on modern films that drew their inspiration from classic works written for the stage hundreds of years ago.

By J. D. Biersdorfer

A new immersive piece of theater from the producers of “Sleep No More” transports visitors to the Gilded Age through a retrofitted skyscraper in Manhattan.

By Alexis Soloski and Hiroko Masuike

At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context.

By David Belcher

Alongside Colman Domingo and Paul Raci, ex-inmates shot “Sing Sing” in a decommissioned correctional facility. Then came the screening in the actual prison.

By Rachel Sherman

Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

By Jesse Green

A deep-tissue turn by Colman Domingo and a breakout performance by Clarence Maclin lift this moving drama about a prison theater program.

By Lisa Kennedy

Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.

By Juan A. Ramírez

Cole Escola is dressing the part of fashion plate after achieving a new level of fame with the play “Oh, Mary!”

By Christopher Barnard

Under its new director, the event is shining a spotlight on countries and performers rarely represented on the biggest European stages.

By Laura Cappelle

Years before they ascended to influential leadership roles, they worked at the Public Theater and became cheerleaders for each other’s professional dreams.

By Peter Marks

Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon Festival, which he leads, would become “a festival of resistance,” juggling activism with the premiere of a new play.

By Laura Cappelle

Easygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

By Jesse Green

She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.

By Penelope Green

Nostalgia will undoubtedly lure many to a London revival of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. It has more in common with a theme park than with theater, our critic writes.

By Houman Barekat

The Spanish director and performer Angélica Liddell elicited a standing ovation at the Avignon Festival in spite of her attacks on critics.

By Laura Cappelle

The model-turned-actress-turned-businesswoman is the new president of Actors’ Equity. In an interview, she explained what she’s doing there.

By Michael Paulson

Jonathan Tunick, Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator, unveiled a grand orchestration of “A Little Night Music” that deserves more than a concert.

By Joshua Barone

The playwright Jeremy O. Harris’s “Slave Play. Not a Movie. A Play.” wears its intellectual references on its sleeve.

By Annie Aguiar

Is moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.

By Jesse Green

The organization, which won this year’s best play revival Tony Award for “Appropriate,” has chosen Evan Cabnet as its next artistic director.

By Michael Paulson

“BOOP! The Betty Boop Musical” had a run in Chicago last year. It is slated to open at a Shubert theater in April.

By Michael Paulson

“The Who’s Tommy,” which has a rock score by Pete Townshend, will end on July 21. A national tour is in the works.

By Michael Paulson

The awards, which celebrated excellence in high school musical theater on Monday, have become a launchpad for future stars and Tony nominees.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Elevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.

By Jesse Green

A family gathering fuels Crystal Finn’s new play, in which an excellent cast teases out the many complications of inheritance.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

The play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama by Donald Margulies.

By Michael Paulson

British theater recommendations for visitors and residents of all ages — and inclinations.

By Matt Wolf

He left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.

By Richard Sandomir

Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

By Patricia Mazzei

After an $80 million expansion, the Folger Shakespeare Library is reopening with a more welcoming approach — and all 82 of its First Folios on view.

By Jennifer Schuessler

The playwright Annie Baker shares the artistic influences behind her feature film debut.

By Robert Ito

Resetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.

By Jesse Green

He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”

By Sam Roberts

BAM, which has faced cutbacks in recent years, unveiled a reorganization as it announced its Next Wave Festival for the fall.

By Annie Aguiar

Annie Baker’s debut feature film is a tiny masterpiece — a perfect coming-of-age story for both a misfit tween and her mother.

By Alissa Wilkinson

Marin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.

By Clay Risen

Maria and Sonia Friedman discussed their long history with “Merrily We Roll Along,” after a bittersweet Tony Awards.

By Michael Paulson

“The Heart of Rock and Roll” is the first new Broadway musical to announce a closing plan following Sunday’s Tony Awards.

By Michael Paulson

The English actor was injured during a performance of “Player Kings,” and the show was abruptly canceled. He is expected to perform again on Wednesday.

By Claire Moses

A new play from the writers of “The Jungle” dramatizes the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, a landmark climate agreement preceded by years of arguments over its wording.

By Alex Marshall

A play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of tragedy at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.

By Jesse Green

As part of a wave of reimagined Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals, a new revival of “Cats” unfolds as a ballroom competition.

By Joshua Barone

The event gave Broadway stars a chance to step out of their costumes and into outfits that showcased personal style.

By The Styles Desk

All of the actors who took home Tonys were first-time winners. Here’s what they had to say after their wins.

By Annie Aguiar

Spirited celebrations that included an official after-party at Lincoln Center and a gathering at the Carlyle Hotel, where revelers broke out in show tunes, continued until nearly 5 a.m.

By Nancy Coleman and Sarah Bahr

The two stars brought down the house with “Empire State of Mind,” their 2009 love song to New York City, which they had recorded earlier on a grand marble staircase outside the auditorium.

By Julia Jacobs and Michael Paulson

Alicia Keys and Jay-Z’s high-wattage performance was a highlight, as were first-time wins for Kecia Lewis, Jonathan Groff and David Adjmi.

By The New York Times

Moon, 21, made her Broadway debut in the Alicia Keys musical “Hell’s Kitchen.”

By The New York Times

The gritty, bloody and relentlessly youthful musical features some of the most effectively vivid violence seen on a Broadway stage.

By Michael Paulson

The gregarious performer who loves and is loved by Broadway picked up a trophy for best leading actor in a musical.

By Michael Paulson

In the searing family drama “Appropriate,” Paulson plays an elder sister intent on protecting her father’s legacy.

By Julia Jacobs

The musical by Stephen Sondheim follows the implosion of a three-way friendship in reverse chronological order.

By Michael Paulson

It was the fifth award of the night for the production, a meditation on the joy and torture of creative collaboration.

By Alexis Soloski

Rivera, who dazzled Broadway audiences for nearly seven decades, died in January at the age of 91.

By The New York Times

“Merrily We Roll Along” is Radcliffe’s fifth show on Broadway, but the first for which he was even nominated for a Tony Award.

By Michael Paulson

Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” long considered a flop, was named best musical revival, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “Appropriate” won best play revival.

By Michael Paulson

The Tony Awards were held on Sunday at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater in New York City.

By Rachel Sherman

Whitney White will direct the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical, which plans to open next spring.

By Michael Paulson

As Broadway prepares to celebrate the best of the season, our theater reporter explores what the nominations tell us about the industry and the art form.

By Michael Paulson

Back in New York City after filming a movie, the actress has been racing to shows while also rehearsing for Sunday night’s ceremony.

By Alexis Soloski

The main event will be broadcast on CBS and livestreamed for Paramount+ with Showtime subscribers. A simulcast will also air at Damrosch Park in Manhattan.

By Michael Paulson

A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast.

By Maya Phillips

Our reporter surveyed a quarter of Tony voters before Sunday’s ceremony. One certainty: Sondheim’s onetime flop seems destined for redemption.

By Michael Paulson

Her frenetic new dance-theater work, which opens a new festival at the new park on the Hudson, includes references to Camus and music by T Bone Burnett.

By Naveen Kumar

“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.

By Jesse Green

The new musical, about a woman seeking healing, is to arrive early next year.

By Michael Paulson

The film is a gentle, emotional drama about a family struggling to stay together. It’s also about the power of theater.

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Tony Awards are Sunday. Each year we photograph nominated performers and talk to them about their craft. This time, we asked about early theater memories.

By Dana Scruggs, Michael Paulson, Julia Jacobs, Jolie Ruben and Amanda Webster

Once labeled a “natural-born heavy,” he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award.

By Anita Gates

Maury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.

By Jesse Green

The institution, Seattle’s pre-eminent repertory theater, says it is making the cuts so it can focus its resources on productions.

By Annie Aguiar