Dawn Ursula plays Toni Stone in American Conservatory Theater's production of Lydia R. Diamond's Toni Stone. Kevin Berne/A.C.T. hide caption
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An evening concert during the 2015 edition of Lincoln Center's Out of Doors annual festival. All of the New York cultural institution's signature summer programming has been canceled for 2020. Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images hide caption
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gave Americans a much-needed on-screen escape in the 1930s. Above, they dance in the 1938 comedy musical Carefree. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Fred And Ginger Cheered Us Up During The Depression. Might They Do It Again?
Clockwise from top left: Daveed Diggs, 9-year-old Aubrey, Okieriete Onaodowan, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt. YouTube hide caption
Camden Catholic High School's virtual choir sings "I Am With You Always," led by music director Greg Gardner. Greg Gardner and Patrick Gardner/YouTube hide caption
The Beat Goes On: High School Choirs Improvise In The Age Of Coronavirus
Marcel (Jesse Eisenberg) in the film Resistance. IFC Films hide caption
Roger Allam as Prospero in William Shakespeare's The Tempest directed by Jeremy Herrin at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London. Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Wanted: Stories With Happily Ever Afters - Here's Where To Start Looking
A portrait of playwright Terrence McNally, taken in his home in New York City on March 2. McNally died of complications related to coronavirus on Tuesday. Al Pereira/Getty Images hide caption
Coach Elie Rwirangira conducts a basketball lesson through a live-streaming session at YBDL Campus in Shanghai, China on March 12. Many people and companies are providing free online classes to stay fit. Aly Song/Reuters hide caption
On Thursday afternoon, New York's Metropolitan Opera announced it was canceling all performances through the end of its 2019-20 season, which was to run through May 9. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The current production of Riverdance was updated for its 25th anniversary. But performances have been postponed for the rest of the month because of the coronavirus pandemic. Jack Hartin hide caption
'Riverdance' Turns 25, But Has Put The Celebration On Hold — For Now
Laura Benanti performs in Washington in 2015. She recently asked high school students to send her videos of their musical theater performances after many of them were canceled. Paul Morigi/Getty Images hide caption
A Broadway Star And #SunshineSongs Bring High School Musical Theater To Small Screens
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, photographed in New York on Aug. 19, 2007. The artist, best known for their work in the groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, died on March 14, 2020. Neville Elder/Redferns/Getty Images hide caption
An empty Lincoln Center will be a much more common sight over the coming weeks; all its constituent organizations have all closed temporarily due to coronavirus worries. Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for IMG hide caption
Performing Arts And Cultural Organizations Close Their Doors Due To Coronavirus
A woman walks past the theater showing Hamilton on Broadway on Thursday in New York City. Audiences won't be seeing the award-winning play for at least a month. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Working on Coal Country helped Steve Earle write his upcoming album, Ghosts of West Virginia. Seven songs from that record are featured in the play. Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the Public Theater hide caption
Featuring Music From Steve Earle, 'Coal Country' Recounts Deadly Mine Explosion
Jerry Minor plays Michael Jackson's glove in For the Love of a Glove. The unauthorized, satirical musical is playing at The Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Theater until March 22. For the Love of a Glove hide caption
New Musical Imagines Michael Jackson's Story As Told By His Famous Glove
David Alan Grier as Sergeant Vernon C. Waters, Blair Underwood as Captain Richard Davenport and Billy Eugene Jones as Private James Wilkie in A Soldier's Play. Joan Marcus hide caption
"I'm a student first in everything that I do," says Nnamdi Asomugha. "So it's always about: How can I get the edge mentally?" Asomugha, shown above on the sidelines of an Oakland Raiders game in November 2010, is now making his Broadway debut. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images hide caption
Pro Bowl To Broadway, This NFL Star Says The Stage Is Another 'Team Sport'
Director Bartlett Sher is now working on an opera based on Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel, and preparing the London premiere and national tour of To Kill A Mockingbird. He's shown above during a rehearsal in May 2006, in Seattle. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption
One Director's Secrets To Success: Chaos, Confidence And 'Collective Genius'
Jeremy O. Harris wasn't sure he even wanted Slave Play to be on Broadway. "It's literally just a plot of land in New York," he says. "And nobody wants to go to Time Square anyway." Tricia Baron hide caption
Moni Yakim teaches a movement class at Juilliard in May 2019. Claudio Papapietro hide caption