The Broadway revival, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez, was transformative. Here?s what to know about the show, and the movie.

Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus.

?Prince Faggot,? ?Figaro/Faggots? and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?

Joe Mantello will direct the next revival of Arthur Miller?s ?Death of a Salesman,? opening in April at the Winter Garden Theater.

Michelle Williams leads an O?Neill drama, Matthew Broderick stars in Molière, and plenty of stages brim with non-holiday fare, Off Broadway and beyond.

The playwright won an Academy Award for ?Shakespeare in Love.? But he was also a prolific script doctor who worked with filmmakers like Steven Spielberg.

Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.

Nobody advanced or cherished the English language more than Stoppard, Tim Curry noted. Colleagues and fans agreed.

The playwright, who learned about his Jewish heritage late in life, addressed it in the Tony Award-winning drama ?Leopoldstadt.?

How one era changed everything about the culture ? and why we?re so nostalgic for its creations.

In works like ?Travesties? and ?Arcadia,? the playwright embraced the really big questions and wrestled words into coherent, exhilarating shape.

Drawing comparisons to the greatest of dramatists, he entwined erudition with imagination in stage works that won accolades on both sides of the Atlantic.

Our cartoonist had no idea the Broadway musical he scored tickets to in 2015 would become a cultural phenomenon ? and an enduring reminder of battles to be fought.

We tagged along to a late-night rehearsal for performers from ?Just in Time,? ?Buena Vista Social Club? and ?Ragtime.?

In shows like ?Black Watch,? ?The Jungle? and ?Oklahoma!,? the institution has affirmed the theater?s singular power to shock and illuminate our world.

The actor is now playing an adult version of the sinister child he portrayed in the film series.

The show, starring Kristin Chenoweth, will remain open through the holidays. The announcement comes just two weeks after the musical opened.

Arthur Miller and Ivo van Hove are a perfect match again, in a new production starring Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu.

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sara Bareilles, Joshua Henry, Jeanine Tesori, Jason Robert Brown and New York Times writers and editors pick 13 songs to seal the deal.

James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of ?Hedda Gabler.? He told us about a week in his cultural life.

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