Earlier this afternoon, if you happened to be in the theater district, you might have noticed dozens of large gold balloons floating in the air. They had begun their journey in front of the …
When the audience roars with laughter at Nathan Lane in David Mamet's new play, November, it's hard for Laurie Metcalf not to join in. As his co-star, she's got the best seat in the house for his impeccably timed comic antics.
David Mamet's new Broadway play, his first in 11 years, is called "November" but this shrill and high-decibel comedy could have easily been called "The Wild, Wild West Wing."
If "The 39 Steps" makes a misstep, it's having an intermission. Once this fast-paced fun ride leaves the station, you don't want to get off.
Despite a crippling 19-day strike by stagehands in November, Broadway shows came back stronger than ever with a record-breaking Christmas season.
For years, Hannay's quest has sent me to the Scottish Highlands to answer another question: Where did Hitchcock shoot location scenes for "The 39 Steps"?
The most dynamic and animated performance I've seen recently is being given by an actress who never moves during the hour-and-a-half she's onstage. She can't.
The production is busy, not exciting; mechanical, not magical.
For "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts' hit play presented by Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, taking a bow meant breaking with the troupe's longtime curtain-call tradition.
Now Menken's musical masterpiece, "The Little Mermaid" is making its Broadway debut Thursday.
On a recent trip across the pond I saw several shows that could someday be on the New York horizon.