Amber Iman and Eden Espinosa in Lempicka. Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman/Lempicka hide caption
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Activists from Extinction Rebellion, left and center, protest during a performance of An Enemy of the People on Broadway, starring Jeremy Strong, right. Extinction Rebellion NYC hide caption
Playwright Christopher Durang appears on stage with producers to accept the award for best play for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on June 9, 2013, in New York. Also on stage are actors, background from left, Shalita Grant, Kristine Nielsen and Billy Magnussen. Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP hide caption
Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Conn., celebrated leaving its home of nearly 60 years with a community parade on Oct. 15, 2022. "The entire city is now our stage," said artistic director Jacob Padrón. Lotta Studio/Long Wharf Theatre hide caption
Teacher Leslie Jones, center, poses with students from Alexandria City High School's drama department students in northern Virginia. Alexandria City High School hide caption
Virginia high school students take center stage for Black History Month celebration
The Good, Bad, & Groundlings cast photo (2023) David Crabb, Emily Pendergast, Lyric Lewis, Julian Gant, Leonard Robinson, Greg Worswick, Matt Cook, Chris Eckert, Lauren Burns, Eliot Schwartz, Jay Renshaw, Allison Dunbar, Patty Guggenheim, Tru Valentino, SHAWN BISHOP/The Groundlings hide caption
The Groundlings Theatre celebrates 50 years of wild and wacky characters
Chita Rivera in May 1977. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara star in a new Broadway adaptation of the 1962 film Days of Wine and Roses. Joan Marcus hide caption
'Days of Wine and Roses,' a film about love and addiction, is now a spirited musical
A bench is seen at the entrance of the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp 10 days after a raid by Israeli forces, Dec. 23, 2023. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
How a West Bank Palestinian theater went from symbol of hope to casualty of war
Singer and composer H. Sinno is bringing a site-specific opera to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur. Derrick Kakembo /The Metropolitan Museum of Art hide caption
An ancient Egyptian temple in New York inspires a Lebanese American musician
Jacqueline Novak in her new comedy special, Get on Your Knees. Emily V. Aragones/Netflix hide caption
Anna Deavere Smith takes on the words of real Americans - and emulates them on stage. Maury Phillips/Getty Images for The Broad Stage/Photo courtesy of Anna Deavere Smith hide caption
Anna Deavere Smith plays real Americans on stage - and she shares her lessons
Jaquel Spivey, Angourie Rice and Auli'i Cravalho in Mean Girls. Jojo Whilden/Paramount hide caption
Is the musical 'Mean Girls' fetch, or is it never going to happen?
Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of Here We Are said. Emilio Madrid/Here We Are hide caption
With songs by The Avett Brothers, Swept Away is inspired by the true story of an 19th century shipwreck in which seamen resorted to cannibalism to survive. Julieta Cervantes/Arena Stage hide caption
Truth, forgiveness: 'Swept Away' is a theatrical vessel for Avett Bros' music
The late musician Prince, performing at the Super Bowl in 2007 in Miami Gardens, Fla. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images hide caption
Maurice Hines, seen in 2005, appeared alongside his younger brother Gregory Hines during the first part of his career. Frank Franklin II/AP hide caption
In 1914, British and German troops participated in a Christmas and New Year truce in the trenches of the Western Front. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
The entrance of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, in a 2022 photo. Nasser Nasser/AP Photo hide caption
The exterior of the Palace Theatre, in the middle of Manhattan's Times Square, in 2009. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption
The cast in How to Dance in Ohio in its World Premiere at Syracuse Stage, 2022 Curtis Brown/How to Dance in Ohio hide caption
'How to Dance in Ohio' is a Broadway musical starring 7 autistic actors
A scene from Florencia en el Amazonas. Ken Howard/Met Opera hide caption
Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in the Broadway musical Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman (2023) hide caption