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The film stars Tony Award® nominee Josh Young (Broadway’s Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita) as Shlomo, Nya (star of the recent Cleopatra and the Broadway revival of Caroline or Change) as Nina Simone and Emily Padgett (star of Broadway’s Side Show, Rock of Ages, Bright Star, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) as Ruth. Watch the video trailer!

Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt were named this season's Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today. Downstate opened last October in an Off Broadway production at Playwrights Horizons.

Bruce Norris’s Downstate and Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt were named this season’s Best Play and Best Foreign Play, respectively, by the New York Drama…

Adam Brace, a prolific British director renowned as an incisive collaborator with stand-up comedians and other performers on a string of acclaimed one

Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult…

Michael R. Jackson, the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright of A Strange Loop, is sinking his choppers into a stage musical adaptation of the 2007 cult horror-comedy film Teeth, set for an Off Broadway debut next year.

The 31-year-old playwright received the honor for her first produced play, “English,” about a language test-prep class in Iran.

The Pulitzer Prize for fiction was awarded Monday to two class-conscious novels: “Demon...

Jenny and Jon Steingart, the founders of Ars Nova, at their home in Manhattan. They are celebrating the institution’s enduring role in the development of many…

Even as it celebrates with a gala, the Ars Nova family now faces another challenge as one of its founders confronts A.L.S.