Theater

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Sam Bobrick, ‘Saved by the Bell’ Creator, Is Dead at 87

A television mainstay, he was also a playwright. His best-known play, “Norman, Is That You?,” flopped on Broadway but went on to international success.

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The Week in Arts: Alicia Keys, Mark Morris and an Expanded MoMA

The singer headlines Tidal’s benefit concert in Brooklyn; and the Museum of Modern Art debuts its larger, more diverse collection.

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11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

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Theater Review

Female Playwrights Are on Form (for the Most Part)

Whether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.

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Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus

A musical adaptation of the popular fantasy novel comes to Broadway and goes to Hades.

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Review: A Startling ‘Swan Lake’ That’s Hard to Recognize

In a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky’s ballet is four dancers representing swans.

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Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them

Asia Kate Dillon of “Billions” is calling on the Television Academy to scrap gendered categories. But the organization and others have no plans for change, for now.

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After 35 Years at Playwrights Horizons, He’s Ready to Seek New Ones

Tim Sanford, the longtime artistic director at the prestigious Off Broadway theater, will turn over the reins to his deputy, Adam Greenfield.

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Michael Friedman Died in 2017. Now 9 Albums of His Work Are Coming.

The first three are to be released Friday by Ghostlight Records and the Civilians theater company.

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‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ Musical Is Coming to Broadway

The 1993 comedy has a Broadway-friendly family plot, but filling one of Robin Williams’s most memorable roles could be risky.