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A hit-and-miss coming-of-age tale, from late playwright Samm-Art Williams, covers aspects of the Black experience with detail but uneven direction distracts

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Broadway's Othello, directed by Kenny Leon. A captivating Shakespearean experience awaits in spring 2025.

The Broadway debut of 91-year-old playwright Adrienne Kennedy provides its captivating lead star with stellar moments but lacks insight

NEW YORK — Suzan-Lori Parks’ “Topdog/Underdog” is a phenomenal two-brother drama, every bit as intense and rich as anything by Sam Shepard and, frankly, as good an American play as most anything written during the last quarter century. And on Broadway, the director Kenny Leon has put this 2001 masterpiece…

The actor makes a searing impact alongside an excellent Yahya Abdul-Mateen II in the surreal Pulitzer prize-winning play about two brothers struggling to get by in America

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died of natural causes on Monday at age 83.

The newly restored Cort Theatre on Broadway will be renamed after James Earl Jones on Monday, becoming the second theater on the Great White Way named after a Black artist

NEW YORK — Audra McDonald is bringing the drama with her return to The Great White Way this fall.

CHICAGO — Ask most directors if their world-premiere Chicago show might have a chance at Broadway and they’ll demur. “Just doing it for here,” they’ll say, or some version of how such bridges should not yet be crossed.