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Tom Hanks is one smart guy. Having learned the hard lesson that movie stars should be careful in picking the parts in which they make their Broadway debuts (perhaps he had a heart-to-heart w…
Cynical audience members can be forgiven for wondering if the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody will be, much like its subject matter, an endurance test. After all, just how interesti…
Watch out, Spidey, there's another superhero in town, and this one doesn't need wires to soar. Yep, the guy in the form-fitting tights with the big "S" on the front of his red cape has land…
She was a "spectral presence," the nameless narrator played Cory Michael Smith (The Whale) says in describing Holly Golightly within the opening moments of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but there'…
Cirque du Soleil has pitched its Grand Chapiteau in New York again " this time at Queens' Citi Field " and the result is...
Like the Illinois archaeological site that is the subject of The Mound Builders, Lanford Wilson's 1975 play now being presented by Signature Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center, …
"I am a wild turkey," says Kristine Nielsen's Sonia with wretched despair, but you can't immediately tell who gets the Chekhovian in-joke in Christopher Durang's wonderful new comedy, Vanya …
It's a comment on the reality of 21st century theater that Ketti Frings' Look Homeward, Angel, her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1957 stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's beloved autobiographical nov…
Full casting has been announced for Joe Gilford's Finks, a fictionalized account of the life of his parents, actors Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, which will begin performances March…
Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE has announced the selections for its 2013-2014 season. The theater will present Henry Wishcamper's adaptation of the Marx Brothers' classic musical comedy, Animal Cr…
Drama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson has replaced Sean Hayes in the feature film version of Richard Alfieri's Broadway play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. In the film, to be directed …
Cabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
Cabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
"Make 'em laugh, Make 'em laugh, don't you know everyone wants to laugh?" sang Donald O'Connor over 60 years ago in Singin' in the Rain. Well, few people on the planet know how to make peopl…
Even if Marilyn Maye didn't ask the audience to shout a hearty "Hallelujah" during her rendition of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's joyous "Get Happy," part of her extraordinary new nightclub…
Ann Richards may have died in 2006, but the indomitable, inspirational spirit of this remarkable woman, is alive and well and living on the stage of Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater …
Just as books should not be judged by their covers, stage productions are not always reflections of their set design. Take Jeff Cowie's almost-too-grand recreation of the rococo Victorian bo…
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See Maria, a 78-year-old Polish woman, grimace as she tries tofu for the first time. Sit back as she convinces longtime friend Zenon that "asshole" is really the English word for computer, o…
To quote from its opening song, "Happiness:" Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion is anything but "just another love story." Instead, this musical masterpiece is a haunting exploratio…
From the first notes of the "Carousel Waltz," played with consummate skill by the New York Philharmonic, to the final notes of the heart-rendering "You'll Never Walk Alone," the Philharmonic…
Edie Falco has a rare gift an actress: to make female characters whose actions are often questionable, if not downright abhorrent, nonetheless seem vulnerable and sympathetic. That singular …
The joy of a perfectly calibrated production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is in watching warring wits Benedick and Beatrice slowly yet surely drop their proverbial armor a…
The residents of Inishfree, Ireland in 1951 are certainly a curious bunch. A woman doesn't consider herself truly married until she has her dowry in hand; old ladies drink whiskey like it's …
Cabaret is not an iPod with a shuffle switch, so take note before heading to former Broadway Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young's new show, My Turn, now at the Café Carlyle"this 80-minute ev…
