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The worldwide sensation and American-style musical theater form an awkward alliance onstage.

Shakespeare’s tragedy becomes a girl-power romp in a cotton candy jukebox musical, featuring songs by the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin.

The new Kate Nash dance musical, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, is spectacular as long as you pay no attention to what it’s saying.

Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant.

She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.

A revival of the Fats Waller musical revue emphasizes the blues in its blueprints.

Many of the “great men” who helped America create its classics, its institutions and its own acting style were tyrants. We need to cut them...

Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga star in Sam Gold’s oddly uneasy take on the Scottish play.

Beanie Feldstein stars as the comic Fanny Brice in the show’s return after almost 60 years.

The Builders Association explores the world of turkers, workers performing thousands of weird, low-paying tasks for an online giant.