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The wicked wit behind "Forbidden Broadway" and Tony-nominated veterans of "Annie" and "Applause" are on tap at the eighth annual New York Musical Theater Festival, running Monday through Oct…
The notion of starting again reverberates through Richard Nelson's "Sweet and Sad," at the Public Theater, an alternately sharp and tender meditation on loss, memory and life in a wounded po…
If solving complex mathematical riddles and mysteries of micro-biology sounds daunting, try cracking the code of the human heart. Itamar Moses cannily threads those parallel strands in his e…
Laura Osnes will miss a lot of things about "Anything Goes" when she belts for the last time as Hope Harcourt on Sunday.
Anne Nelson's "The Guys" was one of the first theatrical responses to the attack. The play, about a fire captain and an editor who helps him write eulogies, opened Jan. 28, 2002, at the Flea…
Broadway greats like Matthew Broderick, Cheyenne Jackson and Julie White recall where they were, who they were with and what they were doing at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.
After the World Trade Center tragedy, Broadway reeled. Then it rallied. Two days after the towers fell, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani gave a press conference about rescue efforts at Ground Zero. …
There's no way George Clooney can avoid getting called out for being stiff in a show launching on Monday. It's not a nasty dis simply a fact. "A Night With George" tells the story of a work…
Since an introduction to Eugene O'Neill by way of "Desire Under the Elms," I've found his stage directions to be as eloquent and intriguing as his characters. Often, even more obsessive.
After trekking contentedly with British actor Simon Russell Beale through Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale" and Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," I'll go anywhere he takes me.
For single-celled organisms, yeast can pack on the flab. Or, more to the point, "Yeast Nation," a musical about the stuff, does. It is larded with echoes of a past show and bloated by so-so …
Bad marriages can make for good drama. And unions don't come more corroded than the one shared by the unhappy West Texas twosome in "Tricks the Devil Taught Me."
"One room. Two plays. An intimate experience of epic proportion." That's how the site-specific production "HotelMotel" hawks itself, and three-quarters of the pitch is true. Yes, it takes pl…
With its horseradish-harsh heroine and a goofy haunted mirror, Charles Busch's new play, "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," had the potential to be dizzy good fun. Or provocative. Or, better yet,…
Like the weirdly statuesque family at the center of "The Talls," this terrific new play presented by Second Stage Uptown more than measures up. A coming-of-age comedy set in 1970 in Oakland …
"Blow out your candles, Laura and so good-bye." By the time this farewell provides a final stab of pain in "The Glass Menagerie," a fragile figurine and a shy young woman's shot at happines…
It's good to see "Rent" again. Jonathan Larson's rock-musical riff on "La Boheme" remains as ambitious, beautiful and uneven as when it first wowed Broadway 15 years ago. After being away fo…
Pole dancing gets more than respectable it ascends to dazzling heights in the sexy mindblower, "Traces," at the Union Square Theatre through early October. Effortless athleticism, balletic …
A soulful but slight "It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues" concludes the two-show inaugural season at New Haarlem Arts Theatre at City College of New York. In 1999 on Broadway, this musical surve…
The delightful new Oz-themed kids musical, "The Yellow Brick Road," proves there's still lessons to be learned traveling down this popular pathway.
A celebratory gathering takes complicated turns in William S. YellowRobe Jr.'s play "Thieves," at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St.) through Aug. 14.
Tony winner Laura Benanti was said to be in the mix. And the talented comic actress Leslie Kritzer auditioned three times for the plum role.
Most of the plays presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company have tucked in modern touches clothes, for example primarily for contemporary resonance.
Othello is the guy you think of first when the topic of Shakespare and jealousy comes up. But the Moor isn't alone.
After a while I stopped jotting down lines that made me laugh in Zach Braff's play "All New People," which opened Monday night at Second Stage. When it comes to chuckles-to-running-time rati…
