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A playwright's widow dresses her husband's survivors in the Broadway show "Fences."
From President Charles Logan on '24' to Kenneth Lay, now in Broadway's 'Enron,' Gregory Itzin has a knack for portraying the dark side.
When a hit musical drops out of sight for nearly four decades, there's usually a reason. In the case of Promises, Promises, which opened last night in its first Broadway revival since the original production closed there after a 1,281-performance run, the reason is obvious: It's no good. Nor is Rob Ashford's big-budget mounting likely to win many new friends for the 1968 Burt Bacharach-Hal David–Neil Simon adaptation of Billy Wilder's The Apartment. Not only is it dully staged, but it's so miscast that even Kristin Chenoweth, normally one of Broadway's hottest commodities, looks like she showed up at the wrong theater.
If you're crazy about Stephen Sondheim, you'll find much to like about "Sondheim on Sondheim." Me, I think he's a genius, but I found the proceedings a bit too clubby for comfort.
Kelsey Grammer makes a flamboyant return to Broadway in "La Cage aux Folles."
As Turner Classic Movies gets set to open its Classic Film Festival with a restored version of Judy Garland's "A Star Is Born," Tom Nolan wonders whether his dance role in the movie-at age 6…
How much tinkering should be permitted with a Broadway musical?
Some edgy shows, such as "Fela!" and probably "American Idiot," are being shut out of an award category.
"Million Dollar Quartet" is the kind of show that falls flat whenever characters stop singing and start talking. Fortunately, they do plenty of the former and not much of the latter.
After decades of hits, Hal Prince directs an unlikely London show with an eye toward an eventual New York run.
Watching "The Addams Family" won't kill you. You'll laugh a lot, and likely wonder how much the set cost. But is this goodish musical worth it?
Unions are battling over whether Twyla Tharp's "Come Fly Away" is a musical play or an evening of dance.
For the first time in four decades, the play that won T.S. Eliot a Tony Award, "The Cocktail Party," is back in New York. Terry Teachout reviews.
Actor Benjamin Walker talks about playing a modern-day President Andrew Jackson in the musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."
With the rock opera "American Idiot" opening, pop-punk star Billie Joe Armstrong confesses show-tune secrets.
In "Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?," scholar James Shapiro tackles doubters on who wrote the plays, while director Roland Emmerich gears up to weigh in on the anti-Shakespeare side.
In "Bowery to Broadway," Christopher Shannon describes the ways in which Hollywood has depicted the world of Irish-Americans. Peter Duffy reviews.
Two new Broadway plays evoke dearly departed celebs: Tallulah Bankhead in "Looped" and Zero Mostel in "Zero Hour." Neither gets beyond skin-deep impressions.
The setbacks of the musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" have led to speculation about whether the Broadway show will go on, but Reeve Carney is still getting ready to don the tights.
The playwright talks about his art 'accumulation' in his cavernous New York loft
The Chicago theater company's slate of plays for 2010-11 illuminate in various ways the identity issues of the Facebook/Twitter age.
