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With a book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, the musical plays the Barbican Theatre.

In “Create Dangerously,” a new play based on the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat, an actor portraying playwright-director Liliana Blain-Cruz describes what the audience is about to see.

The Miami New Drama play-with-music will open at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 6 in a sold-out world premiere at the Colony Theatre on Miami Beach’s Lincoln Road.

NEW YORK - To get right to the nub of it: kernels of sidesplitting silliness pop all the way through "Shucked," a Broadway musical so packed with corn humor it practically stalks you for laughs. The ...

With a book, music, and lyrics by Michael R. Jackson, the musical begins at the Barbican Theatre June 17.

Read our review of White Girl in Danger at New York Theatre Guide

NEW YORK - To get right to the nub of it: kernels of sidesplitting silliness pop all the...

In search of new audiences, the Met has followed Terence Blanchard’s FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES with the jazz musician/composer’s first opera, CHAMPION, the story of closeted boxer Emile Griffith’s rise and fall from grace. Honestly, never have I heard people whose usual venues are Madison Square Garden, Yankee Stadium and Monday Night Football on ESPN talk about how they “wanted to see the new opera at the Met.”

Soho Rep presents the world premiere of multidisciplinary theater-maker and “imaginary historian” Jillian Walker's The Whitney Album, a meditation on the artist's relationship to Whitney Houston's work and personal life, and perceptions of both in the American imagination. The production concludes a 2022-23 Soho Rep season consisting entirely of works commissioned by the organization

The opera by Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard opened April 10.