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This holiday weekend we tip our hats to those performers and others who work days, nights and weekends to enrich your cultural experiences.

The creators of this folk-rock musical about the second man on the moon want us to sympathize with his emotional wound.

They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.

Nikki James met Derk Oosterman four years ago at a bar in Manhattan. Then he moved to London.

“Emilia,” at Shakespeare’s Globe, features three black actresses in the role of the “Dark Lady” who inspired some of the Bard’s sonnets.

This dementedly daffy piece of fun, from the theater company TV, will give you a warm glow in the fleeting moment it’s here for a brief run.

The Mint Theater Company’s revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1936 play is a mishmash of acting styles, tonally uneven and frustratingly unfocused.

Though he remains the greatest American comic playwright, Mr. Simon was standing over a fault line in the culture that eventually pulled him down.

After the playwright’s death, writers, actors and others took to social media to remember is life and influence.

Mr. Simon was a prolific chronicler of New York City life. Here’s a look at reviews of “Barefoot in the Park,” “The Odd Couple,” “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and other plays and adaptations.