At a performance of the musical hit, "Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1812," a patron takes matters into his own hands by grabbing the phone of his texting neighbor and hurling it across the room. […]

What can be salvaged from the wreckage of "Smash" are its great songs […]

Nothing makes stars, like Barbra Streisand, more angry than people making money off of what they consider their hard, treacherous climb to the top. […]

Perhaps you thought you could get away with secretly reading “Fifty Shades of Grey” on your Kindles and iPads. But your naughty literary predilections will be exposed should you see “Cuff Me: The Fifty Shades of Grey Unauthorized Musical Parody.” Then again, anyone familiar with the painfully silly erotic trilogy... […]

The program for “Colin Quinn Unconstitutional” claims the show is “a new comedy.” That’s a bit misleading. Sure, there’s a director (Rebecca A. Trent) and basic staging: a lectern, a kind of balcony for important addresses to the audience, and bare-bones multimedia with modest, unfussy slides. But the... […]

Last fall’s most exciting sensation wasn’t a big Broadway musical but a scrappy outsider sneaking in under the radar. At first glance, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” looked like it had little chance to make a lasting impression. This sung-through adaptation of a subplot from “War... […]

A conference to help dancers tackle the Sisyphean task of surviving and succeeding in Los Angeles will feature an unprecedented array of city, county, nonprofit and artistic leaders. […]

Like the Oscars, the Tony Awards are preceded each year by a bevy of award shows that renders the main event something of a foregone conclusion. […]

Following an absence of more than two years to recover from injuries and illnesses, James Levine made his big return to the podium Sunday to conduct the Metropolitan Opera orchestra at Carnegie Hall. […]

Ambassador Theatre Group, the largest owner-operator of theatres in the U.K. — with 39 venues — will purchase Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre, which currently houses Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, according to the U.K. newspaper The Telegraph. […]

Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, the British import Matilda The Musical and the revivals of Pippin and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? were among the winners of the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards, which were presented May 19 at The Town Hall. […]

Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos — who are currently starring in the Tony-nominated The Assembled Parties, by Obie-winning playwright Richard Greenberg — co-host The 58th Annual Obie Awards May 20 at Webster Hall in the East Village.  […]