Big-name stars like John Mahoney and Dianne Wiest star in Classic Stage Company’s First Look Festival, which this year is devoted to Anton Chekhov.

Director Anthony Minghella (The English Patient) headlines Urban Stages’ “Estimated Time of Arrival,” an evening of romantic vignettes.

Beat the hype and catch the next big thing at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival, a twelve-day showcase for up-and-coming talent ($15; call 212-967-7555 for tickets and details).

Weird, sure, but isn’t that what experimental theater’s all about? The innovators at HERE Arts Center blur the lines dividing art forms like dance, music, theater, and puppetry during Culturemart, their annual festival of resident artists ($15; call 212-352-3101 for tickets and details).

Part Two of The Coast of Utopia is a chance to see stage work—from stars and journeymen alike—at its zenith.

New York Magazine's holiday buzz and backlah report.

Spring Awakening may finally succeed where so many others have failed, bringing pop music people care about to Broadway.

Hollywood carpetbaggers couldn’t keep up with our homegirls Christine Ebersole and Julie White. Will Power’s hip-hop Aeschylus owned New York Theatre Workshop. And John Doyle’s new Company proved that his spectacular Sweeney Todd was no fluke.

You may just catch the next big thing (okay, fine, and Paul Rudd) at an evening of one-acts by young members of Our Time Theatre Company, a nonprofit program for artistically inclined teens who stutter.

‘Annie’ star thinks about tomorrow, and sleep.