74 stories by "Linda Winer"
Theatergoers don't have to get anywhere near the Carole King musical, "Beautiful," to sing "I feel the earth move under my feet" these days.
Eighty-three years ago, Dennis Scanlon's grandfather got a job ushering at the Music Box Theatre. Not long after, Scanlon's father put on the uniform -- yes, they used to wear outfits with b…
Before the tapping of big Broadway feet drowns out all other theater noise for the foreseeable future, it seems fair to steal the spotlight for these Off-Broadway enticements.
One of the best things about watching dance is the feeling that it's running away with our bodies.
Don't be lulled - OK, disappointed - by the nice chatty girl with the inspirational anecdotes who figures in the first half of Patti LuPone's memoir. She eventually does get to the juicy stu…
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes, by Stephen Sondheim. Alfred A. Knopf, 445 pp. $39.95.
It's sharp and snappy, imaginative and heartfelt. It has a real American tragedy to tell and some of the best in the business to tell it.
Pee Wee Herman returns with a new Broadway show.
Vulpines have seldom been as slinky and brutal as in Ivo van Hove's stunning evisceration of "The Little Foxes" - Lillian Hellman's 1939 potboiler about a greedy Southern family and the fate…
For scarily close to two decades, "Angels in America" has been on my short list of theater I've been wanting - no, needing - to see again.
Odd, but oddly winning
You know how people are always complaining about the familiar glut of musical revivals on Broadway? Not this fall.
A rundown of Off-Broadway productions coming this fall:
17 shows on the Great White Way worth seeing this fall.
Late-youth identity crises don't come more gene-splitting than the one that drives "Me, Myself & I," Edward Albee's playful, slight and surprisingly tiresome domestic vaudeville about twins …
I broke Broadway's gentleperson's agreement with the media and bought a ticket for Thursday's preview.
Creaky old sweetheart of a musical, dazzling Kelli O'Hara
Laura Linney was a star, but not yet the star of her own Showtime series, "The Big C," when the Manhattan Theatre Club opened "Time Stands Still" last winter. But she already had a quiet, da…
But here's a record that may be tough to bust. Has a show ever survived terrible reviews and continued to thrive like this at the box office?
It is time - I'm afraid past time - to turn the lights on "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark."
David Lindsay-Abaire calls his new play, simply, "Good People." Like everything in this deceptively amiable, stealthily gripping tragicomedy, however, the words are less plain than they firs…
Mandy Patinkin appears so seldom onstage these days that it feels wrong - ungrateful, even - to be less than thrilled with the results.
Geoffrey Rush is giving one of the most astonishing performances of ordeal theater we're ever likely to see.
How important is charisma in the selection of American leaders? Who decided who got to claim what for whose manifest destiny? What is populism, and why would anyone trust the people with it?
People may be clawing their way into "The Merchant of Venice" to look deep into the thousand-year-old-eyes of Al Pacino's harrowing, yet beautifully restrained Shylock on Broadway. And right…
