Wicked Tickets, Schedule and Information

As Broadway has become more customer friendly, the shows just stay around. And around.

Three notable productions this fall exemplify different approaches to the craft of theatrical restoration.

Tom Stoppard bids fair to make this the most dynamically verbal theater season since Shaw was a young thing of 70.

A roundup of theater happenings across the country.

“It Goes Without Saying,” Bill Bowers’ zestful and endearing one-man show at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, is a classic story of growing up gay in an emotionally repressed 20th-century American family.

Usher, the hugely popular R&B star, is cast so hard against type in “Chicago” you would think you would hear him cracking from the collision.

John Conte was an actor in television, radio, films and on Broadway for decades before he went behind the cameras and founded his own television station.

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For most arts groups, progress at the World Trade Center site has been full of waiting and disappointment, but one is breaking through the logistical morass and opening a new shop in the Liberty Zone.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson and Steven Spielberg were named on Wednesday to receive this year’s Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime achievement in the performing arts.

In “Love Unpunished,” the Pig Iron troupe explores 9/11 through the smallest of lenses.

Two first-time musical writers worked nine years to bring their project to the stage.

Patsy Rodenburg, veteran voice coach, has turned director, with productions in Britain and the United States.

A new arts festival tries to show why political theater doesn't have to taste like medicine.

Fear may be the common denominator among the new generation of clowns.

Hedy Weiss, a theater critic for The Chicago Sun-Times, gave disapproving reviews to eight works in progress. Should she have said anything?

John Kander and Fred Ebb were a Broadway institution. Now Mr. Kander is facing the music alone.

A new production of "SubUrbia" has Eric Bogosian and Jo Bonney, who also happen to be married, working together.

In "Bad Dates," the character of Haley Walker fits right into the long line of older women whose dating troubles are played for laughs.

Crispin Whittell’s play transforms the argument between science and creationism into a comedy.