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We offer a guide to navigating the new arts center set amid the towers of Hudson Yards.

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

With Taylor Mac’s “sequel” about to open on Broadway, we look at how Shakespeare’s goriest play has seeped into pop culture.

Simon Stone and Stanislas Nordey present productions in which their ambitions get the better of them.

A revival of the Marc Blitzstein “play in music” about unions and kleptocrats is too wan to make much of the material’s contradictions.

A series of readings at Classic Stage Company will present the fruits of a project that charged people with “translating” Shakespeare into accessible (and faithful) modern English.

The Tony Award-winning actress, who has been with the musical since its first performance, looks back on its runs on and Off Broadway.

South African actors John Kani and Antony Sher reunite for a play that explores how attitudes have, and haven’t changed, in the 25 years since democracy.

The latest Mabou Mines production is a strikingly designed but ultimately bloodless take on the weird second part of Goethe’s classic.

A new production by Ivo Van Hove with a live orchestra makes the writer Thomas Mann a character in his most famous creation.