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Though the hit revival of "Hair" isn't running at a Shubert-owned theater, Shubert money helped the Broadway show get on its feet.
Ian Bruce's "Groundswell," produced in midtown Manhattan by the deserving New Group, is an unblinking if somewhat contrived tale by a South African playwright well aware that, even 15 years …
Who says a pathological murderer can't be funny? At Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California, Amy Freed's "You, Nero" takes the bloody goings-on of Rome's imperial family after "I, Claudius"…
The Mixed Blood Theatre of Minneapolis has brought "Pure Confidence" to the 59E59 Theaters complex in Manhattan and, like "The Dishwashers," also in residence, this unheralded work deserves …
In a triumph of image over substance, accounting giant KPMG LLP has replaced the small firm that has tabulated Broadway's Tony Awards votes for more than half a century.
A work-in-progress at New York's Public Theater, it's rough, raucous and raunchy.
Like a Texas ranch with newly tapped oil reserves, the world premiere of the musical Giant at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, offered a rich, sprawling evening. Nearly four hours long, the $1.1 million epic presented 29 songs by Michael John LaChiusa, a top-flight cast of 21 directed by Jonathan Butterell and an orchestra of 15—all playing to a modest house of 276 seats.
Brooke Astor took a shine to Matthew Broderick after seeing him in a revival of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" on Broadway in 1995.
The Coen touch -- on stage as on screen -- is more smartass than smart. It panders sedulously to anti- establishment attitudes and thumbs its nose at credibility.
Co-written with Dick Scanlan, "Everyday Rapture" rambles and ambles and never gets overly concerned with connecting one scene to the next. Even at 90 intermissionless minutes, it feels a lit…
Co-written with Dick Scanlan, Everyday Rapture rambles and ambles and never gets overly concerned with connecting one scene to the next. Even at 90 intermissionless minutes, it feels a little padded. Still, it's hard not to like such a likable star and the equally likable personality she creates.
