Deceit is the word. That's the verdict an advertising pro has for a print ad for the new Broadway version of Grease that ran yesterday in the New York Post. It suggested that several critics (including this writer) were uncategorically wild about the show. Quite the opposite was true.
Without magnetic performances, interest wanes in whether Danny and Sandy will couple up. Chills don't start multiplying, antsiness does.
The former 'N Sync-er makes his musical-theater debut
Grease is back, now with reality TV stars and favorite songs
Tonight, Evan Joiner and Kobi Libii open their documentary play "Boiling Pot" at the New York Fringe Festival.
A Daily News writer and editor by day and so-called "emerging playwright" (a nice way of saying "starving artist") by night, I've been lucky enough to have had four plays produced in New Yor…
On Aug. 21, last year's breakout hit "Walmartopia, The Musical!" begins previews at the Minetta Lane Theater for a Labor Day opening.
The Fringe Festival returns, brimming with options
Just 27, Dan Hoyle has already started to make his mark in journalistic theater and continues with "Tings Dey Happen," opening tonight at Culture Project (55 Mercer St.).
Through the kindness of a friend who is a Jane Austen fanatic, I was invited to a reading of a new musical version of "Pride and Prejudice" by two extraordinarily talented young women, Linds…
Beyond the Arab characters, button- pushing themes and 85-minute running times, two new Off-Broadway plays have something else in common: A door that's constantly referred to, along with omi…
During its 45 years at the Delacorte Theatre, Shakespeare in the Park has had to be creative when Mother Nature gets oppressive.
"Beauty and the Beast" takes its final bow today, ending a marathon run of 13 years and 5,510 performances.
Bill Nabel has been there for every step, twirl and cork-pop in Broadway's sixth-longest-running show.
With 'Xanadu' a surprise hit on Broadway, its stars are believing in magic
There's a dot-com boomlet Off- and Off-Off Broadway, where three new plays are inspired by Web sites.
On Sunday, "Beauty and the Beast" will close on Broadway after a run of 13 years and three months.
That is approximately 13 years longer than I predicted it would run when it opened in April of 1994.
If his luck holds, Matt Cavenaugh won't have to move one tchotchke from his dressing room.