Everyone expected ?The Kholops,? a drama exploring oppression, to be shut down soon after it opened in St. Petersburg. Instead, it is two years into a sold-out run.

Erica Schmidt?s discordant comedy, starring Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman, is a farce clumsily straddling two genres.

Jade Franks mines the awkwardness of social mobility in her one-woman show ?Eat the Rich.?

Though the show will close in New York next month, a North American tour will continue, and productions in Australia, Germany and South Korea are planned.

Other picks include ?Bat Out of Hell: The Musical,? a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and ?Lazarus,? featuring the music of David Bowie.

The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on ?What to Wear? in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.

Deborah Warner, known for directing theater and opera, succeeds Pierre Audi, who died last year. Her own work is expected to be part of her programming.

The play, about a man who spends decades on death row before being exonerated by DNA evidence, will have a 16-week run this spring.

Audiences can embark on a very different type of theatrical experience in a new play at the Shed, blending the physical world with digital content.

She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.

City Winery?s 50th anniversary screening of the film encouraged some inventive dress up, including tributes to fan favorites like Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of ?Company,? ?Titanic? and ?Six Degrees of Separation? and from many movie and TV appearances.

In 1970, he founded London?s Young Vic, an adventurous ?people?s theater? (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

As a journalist, I thought I?d never join the ranks of obsessive superfans ? until I suddenly became one.

?I see why nerd culture is so exciting and fun,? said the ?Drag Race? alum ahead of his Broadway debut in ?Moulin Rouge.?

The mayor said a new initiative by the Under the Radar festival exemplified an arts affordability agenda that he intends to pursue.

Tracy Letts?s eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman?s descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its nerve-rattling Broadway debut.

Scholars and artists at Sorbonne University trained artificial intelligence to imitate the French playwright?s themes, structures and sense of humor. The result is a new play.

Several festivals run across New York this month, but none are as big and eclectic as Under the Radar, founded in 2005. Here are our picks for what to see.

The Albanian Greek director Mario Banushi talks about his dreamlike ?Mami,? which leads the Under the Radar festival in New York this month.

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