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The Kleban Foundation will present the 34th annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre on Monday, February 5 at 4PM in a private ceremony (by invitation only) hosted by ASCAP and BMI at New World Stages.

A stage adaptation of Prince's film and album, Purple Rain, will make its World Premiere stage adaptation this year. Learn more about the musical, which is based on the film and album from the iconic performer.

"Jelly's Last Jam" has plenty of songs and dances, but it isn't your usual Broadway musical.

Harry Lennix (The Blacklist, The DC Universe) and Tamara Tunie (Law & Order: SVU, I Wanna Dance with Somebody) will join the cast of its world premiere of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's Purpose.

Watching and loving Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” from the couch, and more in this week's Essential Arts newsletter.

As artistic director of Geffen Playhouse, Tarell Alvin McCraney does not shy away from the toughest questions facing theaters.

Nikkole Salter's "Lines in the Dust" at the Matrix Theater looks at the issue of school residency fraud and what it says about the state of public education in America.

The Music Critic is a very entertaining short evening of music and comedy, featuring John Malkovich as the most acid-tongued critic in music history.

Regional theaters from across the country have banded together to ask the government for aid.

WAKEFIELD —The Little Red Hen Theatre is calling for local actors of all ages and types to bring their best “bah-humbug” to audition for the holiday classic “A Christmas Carol”