111 stories by "JOANNE KAUFMAN"
Actresses in several shows, including "Hamilton" and "Fiddler on the Roof," demonstrate the power of real-life bonding in conveying authenticity.
Ms. Hilty, a star of "Noises Off" on Broadway, lives on the Upper West Side with her husband, Brian Gallagher, an actor and musician.
The actress Sierra Boggess, a star of "School of Rock," lives on the Upper West Side.
The actress Camryn Manheim has a long-held loft on the Lower East Side.
Audrey Heffernan Meyer, the actress, and her husband Danny Meyer, the restaurateur, came to the neighborhood 17 years ago.
The Broadway actress's 1934 Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., home underwent extensive renovations after she bought it last year.
Five photographs of Andrew Lippa and his husband, David Bloch, hang in the foyer of the couple's apartment on the upper reaches of the Upper West Side.
Mr. Lippa and his husband, David Bloch, like to say they live in suburban Manhattan.
The couple known to uptown sophisticates as the Nick and Nora of the cabaret world " and to the rest of us as John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey " rent the parlor and garden floors of a br…
For years, the actor Edward Hibbert lived contentedly in a studio apartment in Hell's Kitchen, an area that "has become so chic we now call it Chez Hades," said Mr. Hibbert, 59, who is playi…
Being spanked in public eight times a week can have residual effects.
The Broadway actress lives with her husband, David Schwab, and their daughter.
A weak premise is stretched very thinly over 90 minutes.
Cabaret gets another revival, seamier and raunchier this time.
The musical version of the hit novel turned hit movie is about as flat as an Iowa cornfield.
Lisa D’Amour’s new play is a welter of empty talk and patronizing clichés about the ennobled underclass.
Inter-religious marriage may have been a fertile topic for drama in the 1920s. Now, not so much.
An evening of self-indulgent Hollywood chitchat substitutes for an actual play.
A talented cast gives flight to the songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein s 1955 musical.
Now ticket buyers get more for their money—everything from archival exhibitions to cucumber sandwiches.
Molly Smith Metzler’s vacuous comedy-drama misses nearly every target.
Tennessee Williams’ classic drama, set in a sweltering New Orleans, is missing the elemental heat here.
The performers sing their hearts out in this story of a young woman searching for faith.
The characters are ciphers, and the story is a head-scratcher. Not even Hugh Jackman can save this one.
Norbert Leo Butz steals the show as a heartwarming uncle with an unhealthy relationship with his younger niece.
