A once-banned play about oversexed teens gets a Duncan Sheik makeover.

Still hard at work at 81, Alvin Epstein—one of the great classical actors of his generation—moved back to New York last year, after decades on the regional-theater circuit. Since then, he’s drawn praise for supporting roles in Chekhov and Beckett, and this week, the Boston Actors Theater’s King Lear transfers here.

The only truly fitting tribute would be to stage Beckett constantly. As Edward Albee once said, “I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production of Samuel Beckett running.”

This Sunday, CBS airs the 60th annual edition of the perennially ratings-challenged Tony Awards. A few ideas for how to get people to watch the damn thing.

Q&A with the Will & Grace star on his new life Off Broadway.

The unlikely star of ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ has a thing for cool cell phones—but no other bad-celebrity traits.

Our Tony Season buzz and backlash report.

Brian O’Byrne, who’s just opened to impressive reviews in his first straight-to-Broadway premiere, Conor McPherson’s eerie Shining City, curses easily, but he won’t say the word career: “I think I got lucky.”

David Schwimmer’s bid to make you forget about you-know-what.

Goofy-looking though it may be, Margarita Cabrera’s life-size Hummer H2 is hardly more ridiculous than the vehicle that inspired it.