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Thirty years ago, young German choreographer Sasha Waltz founded a small contemporary dance company in Berlin. The newly reunified city wasn’t ex

As Waltz’s Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next.

At the Schaubühne, Thomas Ostermeier’s adaptation of the Virginie Despentes novel is a fully alive panorama of neoliberalism.

Elaborate theater backdrops are disappearing in favor of bare-bones productions.

Kenny Leon’s production of “Hamlet,” at the Delacorte, starring Ato Blankson-Wood, is at times more of a cabaret than a narrative aimed like a dagger at the heart.

Not everything was an artistic or audience success at the 75th Aix-en-Provence Festival in France. But everything was worth discussing.

The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.

A review of Kenny Leon’s ‘Hamlet,’ starring Ato Blankson-Wood, Lorraine Toussaint, and John Douglas Thompson, as part of the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park series.

She may not have won an award, but many will agree that the big winner at Cannes this year was German actress Sandra Hueller, who starred in the festival's top two films.

She may not have won an award, but many will agree that the big winner at Cannes this year was German actress Sandra Hueller, who starred in the festival's top two films.