Touched With Fire By TERRY TEACHOUT
"A Touch of the Poet" is long-winded and top-heavy, but once the play gets moving, you'll find it was worth the wait.
"A Touch of the Poet" is long-winded and top-heavy, but once the play gets moving, you'll find it was worth the wait.
The president understood the power of television -- but the camera turned on him
How to please a crowd without breaking the bank
The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey's "The Winter's Tale" ranks high on the list of first-class Shakespeare stagings to come Terry Teachout's way.
Star explores the haunted soul of ex-leader; 'Cadillac Records' makes the blues fun
Broadway's "Irving Berlin's White Christmas" is a genuinely old-fashioned musical, knowing but not condescending.
Frank Langella has an affinity for playing outsiders and flawed individuals, he says. His latest cinematic outlier is President Nixon in "Frost/Nixon."
A souvenir of television's Golden Age
Stephen Daldry's movie has come to Broadway. He sits down for an interview to talk about his love of the theater.
The Broadway actress, who plays the first female president on "24," talks about middle age and Meryl Streep
Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman got their wish: "Road Show" finally made it to New York. But the much-revised musical isn't up to the high standards of its creators.
Ticketmaster said that it has started experimenting with the sale of concert tickets without the addition of so-called convenience charges.
In "Ziegfield," the fabled history of famous theatrical producer Florenz Ziegfield is made fresh again.
I've seen my share of bad Broadway musicals, but I can't recall one that was quite so vulgar and bogus as "Billy Elliot."
Why we don't get conservative plays
"Black Watch," a fictionalized and agenda-driven spectacle about the Iraq war, is less a play than a stylized multimedia stage documentary.
The Rocker Talks About His Musical 'Billy Elliot' and Crying at the Movies
Musical Inspired By Senator's Memoir Opens in Nairobi
The Hanna Theatre in downtown Cleveland has been taken over by the Great Lakes Theater Festival and remodeled to make it suitable for modern repertory theater.
It took the Lubitsch touch to turn the original 'To Be or Not to Be' into a comedy classic
The latest installment in a wave of plays about Iraq, "Surrender" ups the ante by putting the audience in the soldiers' shoes.
Disney is grappling with its "High School Musical" challenge: how to keep the property thriving after the marquee cast moves on.
Neil Pepe's "Speed-the-Plow" is a well-meaning production that isn't as good as it ought to be.
"All My Sons" is a windy production, in which Simon McBurney commits first-degree directorial malpractice.