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Tennessee Williams Made Paintings. They Were About Love and Loss, Too.

The playwright’s little-known artworks provide an intimate look at his preoccupation with eternal questions and his feeling of being an outsider.

 

‘A Little Life’ Comes to the Stage. The Audience Can’t Look Away.

Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel includes many disturbing scenes. In a new production in Amsterdam, the director Ivo van Hove puts that cruelty center stage.

 

Review: In ‘The True,’ Edie Falco Stars as the Soul of an Old Machine

Albany politics in 1977 may not seem very scintillating. But Ms. Falco brings out the buried drama of an ambitious woman in a man’s political world.

 

This Season’s Most Produced Play: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’

Lucas Hnath’s Ibsen sequel will be seen at 27 theaters, and work by women is dramatically represented on American Theater magazine’s annual tally.

 

Micheline Rozan, a Force Behind a Theater Master, Dies at 89

She helped the famed director Peter Brook start an influential theater group in Paris and mount major productions like “The Mahabharata.”

 

Annette Bening and Tracy Letts to Star in ‘All My Sons’ on Broadway

Arthur Miller’s tragic World War II drama is to return to Broadway next spring via the Roundabout Theater Company.

 

Stephen Jeffreys, Playwright Known for ‘The Libertine,’ Dies at 68

He also had a keen eye for undiscovered talent, helping numerous careers as a reader of new works at the Royal Court Theater in London.

 

Review: Up All Night, With Rebecca Hall as Muse, in ‘Soundstage’

Rob Roth’s new multimedia show uses video to try to capture the relationship between an obsessive fan and the actress who’s the object of his fantasies.

 

‘Who Will Remember Her, Once She is Buried?’

In plays like “Intractable Woman,” about a murdered investigative journalist, Stefano Massini seeks to create a “biopsy of reality.”

 

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