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1. "Built to Amaze" (Barclays Center) The Ringling Bros. and Barnum &; Bailey Circus pitches its tent in Brooklyn Wednesday.
Ready, set, role reversal.
On Monday at the Palace Theatre at 8 p.m., the annual fund-raiser "Broadway Backwards" is all about girls performing guys' songs and vice versa.
Oh, Mary.
Pope Francis began his first day on the job in prayer at St. Mary Major church, a Roman basilica dedicated to the Blessed Mother.
Churning Chekhov into modern-day chuckles is the essence of Christopher Durang's slight and happy diversion, "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike."
Seen Off-Broadway at Lincoln Cent…
To save the day, Edward Watts wears spandex.
It's part of the job when you're playing Clark Kent and the Man of Steel in the Encores! concert revival of the 1966 musical "It's a Bir…
Truth to tell, "The Lying Game" is an odd duck of a play " and an inedible one at that.
Annie Baker's up-close portraits of ordinary people have earned her the label of master miniaturist. She remains true to form when it comes to the intimacy in her acutely observed and affect…
Barricades have become synonymous with revolution thanks to "Les Miserables," but you don't need a tangle of chairs and tables and timbers to stage the story of an uprising.
1. "Talley's Folley" (Laura Pels Theatre) Achingly beautiful revival of the Pulitzer-winning love story. Starring Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson.
She knew life wasn't fair and that government should be, deemed herself a "fun" drunk and kept an armadillo paperweight on her desk in the capitol.
That's how Ann Richards rolled, y…
Creative juice flows from countless sources. Theater director David Herskovits tapped into it at a Jewish Museum exhibit.
Surfaces can be misleading, observes one of the two men facing off in "The North Pool."
Based only on appearances, the fact that the author is Rajiv Joseph, a Pulitzer finalist for …
Indie-film ingenue Elizabeth Olsen will be a star-crossed lover this fall in an Off-Broadway revival of "Romeo and Juliet."
Brass at "Breakfast at Tiffany's" on Broadway are threatening amateur photographers with eviction. The crackdown comes after theatergoers snapped covert shots this week of Emilia Clarke, who…
For Peet's sake, that's impressive multitasking. While Amanda Peet has been practicing law on "The Good Wife," the 41-year-old actress has also been fine-tuning her first play, "The Commons …
In Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's myth-mauling and jagged-edged "Jackie," the former First Lady Jackie Kennedy takes stock of her world-famous image.
It's not a pretty picture " …
Lanford Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 play, "Talley's Folly," is a valentine to unlikely love.
Sweet stuff, to be sure.
But valentines are delicate and demanding.
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A lunar eclipse hangs over "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Theatergoers who attended the play's first preview on Monday grumbled that "Moon River" is nowhere to be heard.
So attractive. So disturbed. So doomed. So what?
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Get a load of who's cooked up "Old Hats" " two clowns and a singing sidekick with a salty streak.
In storybook terms, Broadway's overstuffed "Cinderella" isn't exactly a happily ever after. But there are reasons to embrace this new take on the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
1. "Passion" (Classic Stage Company) A stirring revival of Sondheim's strange love story.
Cyndi Lauper admitted it on her first album 30 years ago: She's so unusual.
Talking about her new musical "Kinky Boots," the Queens-raised Grammy winner revealed other shades of her…
A play that lures Vanessa Redgrave to perform on a snug Off-Broadway stage deserves a kudo or two.
Way to go. There, that's done.
Otherwise, "The Revisionist" is an nonstar…
"God, you are so beautiful."
Characters say that often and insistently in "Passion."
The Classic Stage Company's revival of this strange but stirring 1994 Best Musical To…
