Musicals have come a long way from those standard "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" plots. Add to the list of shows tackling offbeat topics Next to Normal—a "girl loses marbles" story about a young mother who is mentally ill. The production, which opened Wednesday night Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, is audacious, original and—like its heroine—has issues.
Despite one or two contrived twists and overwrought passages, it's always intriguing and intelligent.
Director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall's attempt to freshen the show backfired. She padded out the title number with anachronistic melodies from other musicals, and made a showstopper …
In the stirring new play "Betrayed," which opened Wednesday at the Culture Project, Adnan, an educated young Iraqi man forced to survive by selling cigarettes and books on the streets of Bag…
An appealing cast can't conceal the fact that no one point is developed fully enough to be satisfying. In the end, "Hunting and Gathering" is an okay play to visit, but you wouldn't want to …
I caught up with Kristin at the Directors Guild of America Awards on Saturday night and told her how blown away I was by her performance during last month's Kennedy Center Honors.
"(Gasp) Thank you! That's when I had pneumonia!" she said.
So was it worth the wait and all the hoopla? @#$% yes! and #$% no!
It was a regular day of moving sets and hanging lights for veteran stagehand John Santagata. Then, in an instant, something went wrong.
Andrew Lippa's Off-Broadway musical "The Wild Party" has deserved to be revived in New York since it squared off in 2000 with a competing musical based on the same story.
"Sheba" is an old-fashioned but still-engaging portrait of a strained marriage.