The cast in How to Dance in Ohio in its World Premiere at Syracuse Stage, 2022 Curtis Brown/How to Dance in Ohio hide caption
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A scene from Florencia en el Amazonas. Ken Howard/Met Opera hide caption
Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in the Broadway musical Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman (2023) hide caption
Blake Roman, left, Steven Telsey, Zal Owen, Danny Kornfeld, Eric Peters and Sean Bell in Harmony. Julieta Cervantes/Harmony hide caption
Costume designer William Ivey Long in New York City in 2016. Long is currently facing a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption
Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving
'I've been trying to do this for over 30 years' — Billy Porter sings on his terms
The award-winning young playwrights of Enough! take a bow at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in November 2023. Jati Lindsay/The Kennedy Center hide caption
Teens wrote plays about gun violence — now they are being staged around the U.S.
Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of Here We Are said. Emilio Madrid/Here We Are hide caption
John Malkovich says theater is like surfing. Actors might think they are the wave — but they're not: "The wave is created by the collision between the material and the public. You ride the wave or you don't." Malkovich is pictured above in The Music Critic. Julia Wesely/Aleksey Igudesman hide caption
Even Beethoven got bad reviews. John Malkovich reads them aloud as 'The Music Critic'
Stephanie Mills in The Wiz, and Hasan Minhaj on stage. Hulton Archive/Kevin Winter hide caption
Actor Michael Gambon took over the role of Albus Dumbledore in The Prisoner of Azkaban. Carl Court/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Michael Gambon, who played Dumbledore in 'Harry Potter,' dies at 82
Leslie Odom Jr., who won a Tony playing Aaron Burr in Hamilton, is now back on Broadway as Purlie. Marc J. Franklin/Purlie Victorious hide caption
A Jim Crow satire returns to Broadway after 62 years — and it's a romp, not a relic
Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country. Kohei Hara/Getty Images hide caption
Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater
Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's Sweeney Todd and Candide. Doug Reside/New York Public Library hide caption
Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81
Tim Hatley's sketch shows the musical's DeLorean on stage. Tim Hatley/Back to the Future: The Musical hide caption
How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies
Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman hide caption
Recording artist Patti LuPone performs on stage the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS hide caption
Remembering Broadway legend and 'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick
Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick at the Tony Awards in May 2016. Matthew Eisman/Getty Images hide caption
Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99
Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of Second Act in New York on Dec. 12, 2018. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Jodie Comer poses in the press room during The 76th Annual Tony Awards. Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro hide caption
J. Harrison Ghee accepts the award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Some Like It Hot onstage. They and Alex Newell were the first nonbinary actors to win Tony Awards. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro hide caption
Kimberly Akimbo won the 2023 Tony Award for best musical, beating out Some Like It Hot, Shucked, New York, New York and &Juliet. Joan Marcus/Kimberly Akimbo hide caption