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A romantic garden. A Chinese opera. And a select audience, wandering under Californian stars.

Nederlander of San Francisco asked a judge to prevent a rival theater from staging the popular shows.

Friday: Sarah Jones’s “Sell/Buy/Date” comes to L.A., the Kavanaugh hearing, Elon Musk is sued by the S.E.C., and cataloging Latina youth culture.

“Smugness is lethal,” says the filmmaker Todd Solondz, who, with “Emma and Max,” brings his sharp eye for hypocrisy to the stage for the first time.

Richard Bean’s comedy about a wayward attempt to fix a snooker match tickles its audiences into contentment.

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

He represented hundreds of shows on Broadway and off and had a long association with Joseph Papp, whom he helped battle to keep Shakespeare free.

The British R&B artist Dev Hynes comes to New York, and Glenn Close plays Joan of Arc’s mother.

The Bedlam show, stitched together from parts borrowed from Chekhov and Shakespeare, should perhaps be credited to Chekspeare.

Anna Bergmann begins her role as the playhouse director of the Badisches State Theater in Germany with an all-female-directed season.