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David Mamet's China Doll involves two dramas. There's the one on stage starring Al Pacino as an old billionaire who gets snared in a vague conspiracy of power and political corruption. Then …
The Wiz Live eased on down the road Thursday, the best-attended Broadway try-out in history. Next year, director Kenny Leon is planning a Main Stem transfer of the production, although it's …
The Wiz Live! eased on down the road Thursday, the best-attended Broadway try-out in history. Next year, director Kenny Leon is planning a Main Stem transfer of the production, although it's…
Why do people find fat funny? That is one of the questions provoked by "Gigantic," a musical originally entitled "Fat Camp," about a summer camp for overweight teenagers. To be fair, the sho…
Invisible Thread superficially recalls The Book of Mormon, both musicals telling the story of a couple of Americans in Uganda trying to do good works. But the new musical does not mock the e…
Below is the tracklist for The Wiz live broadcast on NBC today December 3, 2015, 8 to 11 p.m. The song titles (accompanied in parentheses by who is singing) are linked to lyrics as performed…
Four shows are opening on Broadway in December: Â “School of Rock” is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s first new musical on Broadway since 2005. Â Jennifer Hudson makes her Broadw…
Holiday Gifts for Theater Lovers: My recommendations for shows, theater subscriptions, theater books, cast recordings posters, and show-related doo-dads to get as gifts for the theater lover…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in November? Answer these 13 questions and see. Tagged: Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Break A Leg, Broken Legs exhibition on…
How shows and performers and theater people gave thanks on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving from #WaitressMusical and Jessie Mueller! pic.twitter.com/PLEq0oY9KB " Waitress Musical (@Waitress…
The 89th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has 41 big balloons (17 of them really big), 27 floats, 1,100 cheerleaders & dancers; more than 1,000 clowns; 12 marching bands ̵…
Theater is "ephemeral," says Maggie Smith " "every performance is like a ghost; it's there and then it's gone" " but a theater lover is for life. This helps explain my fourth annual Broadway…
What would make a woman leave her husband and three small children? The reason that Nora gives in "A Doll's House" shocked audiences when Ibsen wrote his play in 1879, and the final scene st…
During Thanksgiving week, there is plenty to do besides travel and talk to your relatives. Performing Thanksgiving Day on Broadway: Chicago, Dames at Sea, Finding Neverland, On Your Feet, an…
"Night is a Room" is the last of Naomi Wallace's plays in the Signature season devoted to her work, and it is the most gratifying" but only for the first half. In place of her other plays' g…
Below is the schedule for Broadway shows during Thanksgiving week. The titles are linked to my reviews or other information, and a collection of photographs, about each show. (Those shows wi…
“I’ve always been SHY/ I confess that I’m SHY,” Jackie Hoffman sings as Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in the Transport Group’s revival of “Once U…
To mark the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will present “No Longer Sile…
In "Mourning Sun," a beautifully acted new play by Antu Yacob, two young teenagers in Ethiopia both love to sing and dance to Michael Jackson. The "sun" part of the title is clear from the g…
Yes, people have been telling actors to “break a leg” for hundreds of years, but not for the reason you may think, according to Rebekah Lazaridis in the video below. An actress s…
"Steve," a play produced by The New Group at the Signature Center, begins and ends with its characters singing show tunes, which is a lovely and appropriate touch by director Cynthia Nixon, …
Today is the second annual #LoveTheatreDay, originating in the United Kingdom but spread throughout the world. This afternoon, Spring Awakening will perform at the White House, and simultane…
It sounded like a good match: Batman and Lost Boy movie director Joel Schumacher, versatile master of action and suspense, in his New York stage debut directing a play by Jennifer Haley, a w…
In its 18th year, The Lion King is now the third longest-running musical on Broadway. To celebrate, Disney has filmed the breathtaking opening number “Circle of Life” in 360 degr…
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller's most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson i…
