Theater

A remarkable range of theater has worked its way into our homes over the past three months, and it has certainly been soothing to enjoy some razzmatazz — nothing distracts...

Patricia Reed Scott, a pivotal figure in New York’s efforts to build its TV and film production industries, died May 23 in Neptune, N.J. of a subdural hematoma sustained in...

A few weeks after “A Raisin in the Sun” opened in New York in March 1959, making 29-year-old Lorraine Hansberry the first black woman with a play produced on Broadway,...

The divided self finds a natural home among the multiplying split screens of “A School for Fools,” a mind-bending adaptation of Sasha Sokolov’s 1975 novel about one damaged soul’s infinitely...

Editors’ Note: Colman Domingo, playwright, director and actor, was researching his musical (with co-author Patricia McGregor) about the iconic Nat King Cole when he realized the great singer of the...

The Public Theater has postponed its digital gala, “We Are One Public,” due to the protests around the country. “In this time of national trauma, when the Covid crisis has...

“The Phantom of the Opera” has garnered plenty of superlatives over the years, including the longest-running show in Broadway history. But in recent months, it has also laid claim to...

Alec Baldwin popped up online to surprise graduates of Hunter College’s theater program during their virtual commencement, Page Six is told. The fiery “30 Rock” actor — a friend of...

Sometimes, when all lighter diversions have failed, what a person who’s been in confinement needs is a wallow in the pitch-black mud. You know, the kind of indulgent plunge into...

Larry Kramer, the late LGBTQ and AIDS activist, author and playwright, has been much praised and analyzed over the last 24 hours. But Larry Kramer was also both a friend...