Erin Davie, left, and Emily Padgett, don’t look all that much alike offstage.
Emily Padgett and Erin Davie star as the performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, in the Broadway revival of the musical “Side Show.”
For “The Object Lesson,” a performance space has been packed with towering cardboard boxes that the audience and the author, Geoff Sobelle, explore in a meditation on human detritus.
Saying that he’s ready for a detour, Hugh Jackman embraces an eerily enigmatic role in “The River,” now in previews on Broadway.
Hugh Jackman continues his performance in “The River” after cutting his finger.
The Tony Award-winning director John Rando, who has earned recent acclaim for staging “On the Town,” is in negotiations to direct the musical “King Kong” that is aimed for Broadway.
The designer Barry Hutchinson talks about how chicken feet inspired his artwork for the new play “Filler.”
The festival in January will present “Cineastas,” created by the Argentine theater director Mariano Pensotti, along with works from around the world.
Two African-American executives, caught in an elevator during a building crisis, discuss matters of class and sex as well their own threatened physical safety.
The one-man show “Wiesenthal,” written by and starring Tom Dugan, humanizes appalling events.
A clinical psychologist and her patient will appear in a show called “Borderline,” which features the two women playing themselves and dealing with the patient’s borderline personality disorder.
Recommended shows from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
Recent show reviews from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
Playwrights Horizons, a leading New York company, is now paying authors for meetings and helping with health insurance.
Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending Nov. 2.
A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Young Jean Lee’s new play, “Straight White Men,” comes to the Public Theater.
Patti LuPone’s “Faraway Places Part Two,” at 54 Below, is the sequel to her show there in 2012.
“Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman” is a coming-of-age comedy about a Colorado drama geek yearning for his father, who has fled to New York.
Katie Mitchell brings incision and insight to a new London production of “The Cherry Orchard.” “Neville’s Island” explores survival, while “Memphis” tackles race relations.
Genet’s “The Maids” is reconceived with a little help from the professionals — professional housekeepers, that is — at Abrons Arts Center.
In Sarah Ruhl’s new play, “The Oldest Boy,” at Lincoln Center, Buddhist monks want to take an American child to India because they say he is the reincarnation of a revered teacher.
“Pool (no water),” Mark Ravenhill’s dark comedy, which had a brief run in 2012, has reopened off Broadway at the Barrow Street Theater.
Benjamin Kunkel’s “Buzz” follows a playwright and his girlfriend in their South Brooklyn apartment.
A clown, contortionists, jugglers and one sheepadoodle are among the attractions in “Metamorphosis,” the latest edition of the Big Apple Circus.
Dialogue is loudly delivered in service of an Issue, with a capital I, in Nikkole Salter’s tale of a mother’s effort to get her daughter a better education.
Eli Bolin, who wrote the music and lyrics for the show “Found,” talks about how boxing and calypso music inspired the number “Cats Are Cats.”
A soloist with Ballet Theater, Mr. Saddler made his Broadway musical theater debut in 1947, and he went on to win two Tonys as a Broadway choreographer.
The three lead actors of the musical “On the Town” bond around New York even when they’re not in their roles.
An actress and her aspiring playwright son are at odds in this scene from the new Broadway play by Donald Margulies.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
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