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Catching Up With Hillary Clinton at “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’”

The former secretary of state celebrated the opening on Broadway and shared her thoughts on those drag show bans.

Review: ‘The Good John Proctor’ Imagines Girlhood BFFs

The play, directed by Caitlin Sullivan at the Connelly Theater, focuses on two girls in the year leading up to the action depicted in “The Crucible.”

Making It

The Female Artisans Honoring, and Reinventing, Japanese Noh Masks

In taking on the male-dominated theatrical craft, contemporary women carvers are changing the face of a centuries-old tradition.

Micaela Diamond, From Broadway’s ‘Parade,’ Sings Her Favorite Joni Mitchell Song

The actor, who learned to love music at her local temple, has developed a different relationship to her Judaism onstage.

Critic’s Pick

Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’

Nicholas Hytner’s heartbreaking ambulatory staging, at the Bridge Theater in London, finds new depths in the classic Broadway musical.

‘How to Defend Yourself’ Review: The Murkiness of Consent, and Friendship

In Liliana Padilla’s play at New York Theater Workshop, college students find empowerment and life lessons in a DIY self-defense class.

Critic’s Pick

‘The Coast Starlight’ Review: Strangers on a Train

Keith Bunin’s gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle.

A Conductor Arrives at Encores! With a Jerry Herman Rarity

Mary-Mitchell Campbell, the series’ new music director, will lead a restored performance of “Dear World,” starring Donna Murphy.

‘Pericles’ Review: Shakespeare in the Blender

Target Margin Theater remixes one of the Bard’s lesser works, with uninspired results.

Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City

At the Shed, Arinzé Kene mixes spoken word, music and comedy to tell a story of racial tension and male identity in a changing London.