With "Snow in June," an adaptation with text by Charles L. Mee of a 13th-century Yuan dynasty play, Chen Shi-Zheng says he wanted "to force this ancient, classic text into modern American th…
Tony Kushner's play broke new ground, but it hasn't transformed Broadway as hoped
When John Henry Redwood died in June, the loss was more than just that of a widely beloved actor and playwright.
Under that makeup is the young Scottish actor Euan Morton.
Josiah Spaulding Jr., the president of the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, isn't just well paid. He's among the highest-paid leaders of a nonprofit performing arts center in the country…
'The Nutcracker' is ousted, the deficits are posted, and the competition is making it hard to attract bread-and-butter touring shows. At the Wang Center, the pressure is on
Next to Nathan Lane, the person you can't take your eyes off of in "Butley" is a tall drink of water named Jake Weber. He doesn't come onstage until after intermission and then has only one scene.
But what a scene.
Len Cariou has had a storied career on Broadway.
It's hard to say whether the play has life beyond Emerson. Kaufman and Hart are not really in the limelight these days, but the production makes a case that we're not necessarily the richer …
Producers Ely and Edie Landau had what seemed like a brilliant idea in the 1970s.
Daughter portrays bandleader aunt
The production of "Porgy and Bess" at the Cutler Majestic Theatre last week was a respectable touring effort, but it left in its wake melancholy thoughts about all the talented African-Ameri…
"This is probably the most fun leading male role in Broadway musical theater history," says Gregory Harrison, who plays the shady lawyer Billy Flynn in the national tour of "Chicago," which …
Nathan Lane makes professor's failings funny in superb 'Butley'
Bernstein's Broadway, the road not taken by Ed Siegel
With both "West Side Story" and "Candide" being revived locally this week -- "West Side Story" at the North Shore Music Theatre, "Candide" at the Boston Conservatory -- and with Bernstein's 1953 musical "Wonderful Town" being revived on Broadway next month, it's worth asking what would have happened if Bernstein, rather than Sondheim, had been the major influence on the next generation of Broadway composers.
Taking chances with new work to build audiences and artistic aspirations
With quotes from Israel Horovitz.
Charles Busch.
Rebecca Gilman.
Carly Jibson is a lot like her `Hairspray' character