Kenny Leon will direct a starry revival of Shakespeare’s tragedy in the spring of 2025.
Category: Theater
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Bringing ‘Teeth,’ a Feminist Awakening With a Lethal Bite, to the Stage
Michael R. Jackson is helping adapt the darkly comic horror film into a musical. But can a show about a teenager with vagina dentata sing?
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Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Set for Broadway
“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.
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In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It
This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.
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Parents Outraged After Willy Wonka Event in Glasgow
Families traveled to Glasgow for an event that claimed to channel the magic of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” They got a couple of jelly beans.
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In ‘The Effect,’ Investigating Love and Other Drugs
Jamie Lloyd’s revival of Lucy Prebble’s 2012 play, starring Paapa Essiedu and Taylor Russell, heads to the Shed after a celebrated run at the National Theater, in London.
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‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
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Reviving ‘The Wiz’ Through ‘the Blackest of Black Lenses’
The beloved 1975 musical returns to Broadway this spring, with nods to Black culture like second-line parades and Underground Railroad quilts.
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‘A Sign of the Times’ Review: A Confused 1960s New York
A jukebox musical about a Midwesterner’s big dreams is heavy on the Petula Clark.
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On the Road With ‘The Outsiders,’ Where the Greasers and Socs Rumbled
It’s one of the best-selling Y.A. novels of all time and a star-studded Coppola movie from the ’80s. On its way to Broadway, the show’s cast and creators paid S.E. Hinton a visit.
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Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring
“The Notebook” and “Cabaret” land on Broadway. Olivia Rodrigo’s tour stops in Manhattan. Plus: Herbie Hancock, Heartbeat Opera and Trisha Brown Dance Company.