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Teen participants from the Stella Adler Outreach Summer Shakespeare Program will perform 'Romeo and Juliet' this Friday.
The Director of a Broadway-Bound Play About Vince Lombardi Becomes His Own Kind Of Coach
Much as I esteem both Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch, neither one of them is well cast.
Shakespeare Santa Cruz delivers a completely successful "Love's Labour's Lost" and a vigorous "The Lion in Winter," says Terry Teachout.
Had enough of Shakespeare for one summer? Most of America's summer "Shakespeare festivals" present a fairly wide variety of classical revivals and more modern works.
Few companies can afford so labor-intensive a production as "The Madness of King George III," but The Old Globe is bringing it off with seeming effortlessness-and throwing in "The Taming of …
The business of sending musicals abroad has never been bigger-Disney has brought in more than $2 billion overseas from 'The Lion King' alone. But navigating the global stage can be tricky. W…
New York City Center's seats are getting supersized. As part of a renovation project that began in April, the performing-arts center is taking the lead of theaters across the country in expa…
Annie Ross's weekly Metropolitan Room gig is reason enough to love the city's sprawling jazz scene.
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's ribald "Troilus" and bra-burning "Shrew" would be worth seeing even in a condemned warehouse. So how about under a pitched tent, overlooking the Huds…
BBC America's "The Choir" is like a nonfiction mash-up of "Glee" and "To Sir, with Love," while Syfy's new "Haven" is a safe bet, writes Nancy deWolf Smith.
"The Grand Manner" features a legendary actress calling herself "quaint" and "an antique." Its playwright, A.R. Gurney, has felt the same way, but he isn't exiting the stage.
Even Al Pacino's problematic Shylock was no burden for the best "Merchant of Venice" ever reviewed by the Journal's theater critic, Terry Teachout.
A spoof of Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" video has been generating attention because of its religious overtones, this time as sung by Old Lady Gaga, played by comedian Jackie Hoffman.
A visually dazzling production of "Peter Pan"-like a cross between a Pixar film and a spectacular video game-has landed in San Francisco, its first American venue.
When I heard that Mr. Gurney's latest play was a backstage fantasy about a youthful encounter with Katharine Cornell, I figured it would be one of his lesser efforts, a slightly sticky valentine to the actress whom Alexander Woollcott dubbed "the First Lady of the Theater." Not so. The Grand Manner starts out heavy on the charm, but Mr. Gurney pulls a switch on you, and all at once you realize that you're seeing an unexpectedly tough-minded portrait of an exceedingly complicated marriage.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival production of "She Loves Me" is special in every way, a near-flawless realization of one of the most delightful musicals of the 20th century, says Terry Teach…
Sometimes a play that looks on paper like it shouldn't work, does. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's production of "Hamlet" is one such surprise, says Terry Teachout.
More than 50 years after it was first rebuffed by Mark Rothko, the Four Seasons restaurant still can't get its hands on the artist's paintings-even the fake ones painted hastily onstage by A…
Sutton Foster, set to begin a two-week engagement at the Café Carlyle, chats about her move from the Broadway stage to the solo touring circuit.
At the after parties on Sunday, there were lots of photographs and celebrating, writes Marshall Heyman.
