The Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors also chastised the casting of non-Latino actors Ben Cole and Clea Alsip in the Hispanic-specific roles of Jackie and Veronica in the TheaterWorks …
What was supposed to be a fake slap became a real smack last weekend at the Huntington Theatre Company's production of "God of Carnage."
"Chinglish," David Henry Hwang's play about an American businessman coping with translation and romantic problems in China, will close on Jan. 29, the producers announced on Monday.
Temporary Distortion's new film-theater piece about the private life of cops is strongest when it lets its stories speak for themselves and weakest when it dips into sentimentality.
Playwright Nick Starr displays an overactive imagination in this muddled sci-fi fantasy, whose characters are mere puppets and which is stuffed with everything except logic.
Despite sterling performances from Carla Gugino, Jim Dale, and the luminous Rosemary Harris, Athol Fugard's 1984 drama has trouble punching its way across the footlights in the too-large A…
This multimedia play about primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas is overburdened with busy work, poor execution, and one-dimensional performances from its thre…
In this mind-twist of a one-man show, performer Tobias Wegner does not actually fly through the air. Nevertheless, his coupling of video and a minimalistic set creates the ultimate onstage …
Young Jean Lee gives New York audiences the feminism they deserve: conflicted, unprocessed, at times ironic, at times sincere, always provocative. Feminism, she reminds us, is never a simp…
Back Stage is now running a casting notice for the upcoming Broadway revival of "Annie." Rehearsals are slated to begin late Summer/Fall 2012 and an opening date has not been set.
Producers announced Thursday that the much-delayed musical based on the 1992 film starring Steve Martin as a shady preacher will start performances April 3 at the St. James Theatre.
Producers of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" said Thursday that the musical will play its final performance on Jan. 29.
This unfettered but ultimately unimposing interactive play asks audiences to take part in the great battles of the past and to consider which side they might have come down on in various h…
Part 1 of a trilogy, Mac Rogers' absorbing play is set a few years after the first manned mission to Mars and thrives by entangling mysterious science fiction with straightforward domestic…
The actor whose role as the bank-robbing male lead in the musical "Bonnie & Clyde" was cut short last month by poor ticket sales, has jumped aboard the Broadway-bound "Newsies," a musi…
Gary Duggan's musical three-hander successfully fuses campy, dark, dramatic, and experimental elements. But do those really go together well?
This romanticized, politically correct revision of George Gershwin's landmark opera attempts to turn it into a Broadway musical but only succeeds in significantly cheapening it.
This romanticized, politically correct revision of George Gershwin's landmark opera attempts to turn it into a Broadway musical but only succeeds in significantly cheapening it.
"I always felt that there was something else to come," says Baitz. "I sort of wake up every day in a kind of weird state of gratitude. It feels like a war ended for me, actually."
The actor, singer and writer best known as James T. Kirkon "Star Trek" will star in a one-man show called "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It."
This cautionary 1731 play by George Lillo, never before seen in New York, is the forefather of every "she done him wrong" drama.
The "Glee" actor is starring in the Broadway show for three weeks, before he'll be replaced by the youngest Jo Bro.
This avant-garde musical criticizing American capitalism comes into town trailing European praise and awards, but it's an awfully obvious and naive work that's no match for the voraciousne…
Zayd Dohrn's new play about an American man falling in love with a Chinese woman explores intriguing themes such as foreignness and isolation, but it ultimately devolves into a soap opera.
"Perfect Crime," the longest-running play in the history of New York theater, is celebrating its 25th anniversary on April 18, 2012.