Renée Fleming opens the Met’s season as Violetta in La Traviata—a tough role she backed out of twice but is now ready to take on.

Naughty and Nice: Circus Clowns, Jazz Singers, Dancing Girls . . .

Putting a Nicole or Melanie on Broadway was once a sure bet. This season, it’s curtains.

If you hadn’t figured out who the audience was for Mario Cantone’s one-man Broadway show, the impersonation requests would have tipped you off.

You can practically see the deep-fried halos appearing over the six exemplars of southern womanhood as they wash each other’s hair, gossip viciously, and have meaningful conversations about life.

All that’s missing is a carny out in front of the Public Theater screaming, “Mothers, shield your children! Gentlemen, if you have a heart condition, leave now!”

Theater-festival season brings in hundreds of new plays.

She’s a sexually frank female performer who’s used her phenomenal mainstream popularity to help women around the world. So why does she drive me crazy?

Beauty is the subject of Terrence McNally’s new Off Broadway plays, so who better to star than Isabella Rossellini?

Purely by kismet, John Patrick Shanley has three shows up this month, two of which have just opened.