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Fox's "Glee" has so much going for it that its dirt-sophomoric humor-doesn't stick.
California's Theatricum Botanicum has given Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" a biracial rewrite, setting it in Virginia in 1970. Does it work?
As 'Spider-Man' suspends construction, some wonder if a theater is cursed
Peterborough Players' production of "Heartbreak House" is vastly better than the big-budget Broadway version by the Roundabout Theatre Company. Also, Berkshire Theatre Festival's revival of …
Bill T. Jones and his closest collaborators from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company join Passing Strange co-creators Stew and Heidi Rodewald, and WSJ's Wendy Bounds for a passionate …
New general director Charles MacKay scores a diva trifecta with three productions at the Santa Fe Opera, including the world premiere of "The Letter."
Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass., stages the Bard's comedy "Twelfth Night," while Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Mass., takes on Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire."
The Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones prepares two new shows, "Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray," on Lincoln, and the musical "Fela!," on Fela Kuti.
"Arcadia" is Tom Stoppard's best single play, and the revival at the Duke of York's Theatre in London shows why.
Nick Ruggeri's still waiting for his big Broadway break, but at summer stock he's a star.
How the director of "Do the Right Thing" and "Malcolm X" came to make a film version of the critically-acclaimed Broadway rock musical "Passing Strange."
Brian Bedford's brilliantly zany staging of "The Importance of Being Earnest" is good enough all by itself to justify a trip to the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
As summer festival season heats up, outdoor productions battle the intrusions of nature; a raccoon's soliloquy
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Bill Rauch has done the seemingly impossible, creating a high-concept "The Music Man" in which every detail has been rethought and refurbished.
Former "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini on his new indie satire, "In the Loop."
Last season, British shows got top Broadway awards. With the help of Jude Law and drag queens, they may do it again.
They shared respect, as well as sorrow--both men had lost their wives. But where Berlin was a genius of music and of marketing, Joplin was only one of music, says Mr. Saltzman, whose first p…
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has given the Bard's least well-known play a staging so lucid, genial and persuasive that you'll wonder why it isn't as popular as "Twelfth Night."
However you interpret David Mamet's "Oleanna," it's definitely not the work of a playwright who takes a rosy view of human nature.
Helen Mirren has chosen an ambitious work for her return to the stage after five years: Racine's 17th-century tragedy, "Phèdre," about a middle-aged queen who lusts after her stepson.
"Girls Night" tries to lure partying women to Off Broadway.
Why Hollywood doesn't produce good songs anymore.
Terry Teachout reviews "A Minister's Wife," a new musical version of George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" that is the talk of Chicagoland.
