This musical adaptation of Jerry Spinelli’s award-winning novel, presented by New York City Children’s Theater, is lots of fun — too much fun for anyone who…
In February, the Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha turned 90.
Jean-Christophe Maillot’s “Cinderella” is more a descendant of the Brothers Grimm than of Walt Disney.
(performances start on Wednesday) Vernon Duke, John Latouche and Lynn Root’s 1940 musical, originally directed by George Balanchine, gets a second chance courtesy of New York…
At 44, the British composer Thomas Adès is already a lion of contemporary classical music.
A menagerie of alien-looking instruments will fill the stage when Ensemble Musikfabrik and the director Heiner Goebbels bring to life this work by the West Coast maverick composer …
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(performances start on May 6) If you’re still mourning the closing of “Cabaret” on Broadway and can’t quite content yourself with “Chicago” or &…
A sexy, witty work from the philosophizing acrobats of Les 7 Doigts de la Main that distorts, upends and mocks the laws of physics.
(performances start on March 18) Why not follow a wand’rin’ star over to City Center for this Encores! revival of Lerner and Loewe’s 1951 musical set in 1850s Cal…
The celebrated Spanish dancer Sara Baras presents “Voces, Suite Flamenca,” which should be a rousing close to City Center’s three-week festival title “A Bai…
This Cuban company makes its United States debut with “Havana Rakatan,” a hip-swiveling, skirt-tossing, action-packed show that traces the evolution of Cuban music from…
(previews start on Feb.
The first program of this frequently sold-out festival features, on Wednesday and Thursday, the San Francisco Ballet; the New Zealand company Black Grace; a premiere by the Mark Mo…
In the mid-1990s, Randy Newman’s song cycle about a contemporary deal with the Devil was staged in Los Angeles and Chicago, but never made it to Broadway.
(performances begin on Wednesday) As director of Public Works at the Public Theater, Lear de Bessonet has been known to corral more than 200 amateur actors for a musical version of…
(opens on May 29) Eugene Onegin is a shallow and useless man.
(previews start on May 21; opens on June 17) At a remote bed-and-breakfast in Washington State in 1972, Agnes offers muffins, coffee and succor to vulnerable and abused women.
(opens on May 7) Parisian tarts don’t come much more delectable than Irma, the French prostitute at the center of this 1956 musical about sex, love, disguise, murder, prison …