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On ‘Pictures From Home’ on Broadway, a Family Portrait Full of Secrets

Adapted from Larry Sultan’s photo memoir, Sharr White’s play “Pictures From Home” explores the lies people — and their photographs — tell.

By Kurt Soller and Jennifer Livingston

Actors and Actresses Deaths (Obituaries) Dillon, Melinda (1939- ) Movies Television Theater Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Play)

Melinda Dillon, 2-Time Oscar Nominee, Is Dead at 83

She was a Broadway star at 23 and then quit acting, but later re-emerged in films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Christmas Story.”

By Alex Traub

Brooklyn Academy of Music Brosnahan, Rachel Hansberry, Lorraine Isaac, Oscar Kauffman, Anne The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window (Play) Theater Theater (Off Broadway)

Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan and the Draw of a Neglected Hansberry Play

The first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?

By Alexis Soloski

Berlin (Germany) Cage aux Folles, La (Play) Fierstein, Harvey Herman, Jerry Komische Oper Berlin Kosky, Barrie (1967- ) Theater

Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin

The vivid characters and the infectious melodies of the 1983 musical prove remarkably durable in Barrie Kosky’s madcap production at Komische Oper Berlin.

By A.J. Goldmann