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This rabblerousing ode to black musical history is sure to delight audiences, but the production needs a little more honing to highlight the show's important historical elements.
Director Lucy Bailey's full-volume approach to Shakespeare's tragedy tends to flatten it into melodrama, but one that hurtles forward with such speed that we're largely swept along with it.
Studio City–based talent manager Nicholas Roses entered a no-contest plea last week to operating an advance-fee talent service that put several minors at risk of harm.
Producers of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" have turned to TV to find a replacement for star Daniel Radcliffe.
Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin are returning to Broadway together this fall, taking their concert to the Barrymore Theatre beginning Nov. 16.
The "How I Met Your Mother" actor hits theater Friday alongside the little blue creatures in "The Smurfs."
It seems like whatever gets thrown at Shields, she gamely returns. Few actresses seem as approachable, as sweet or as genuine.
Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford co-star in "Cowboys & Aliens," in theaters Friday. Here are a few things you may now know about the actor.
Transforming popular children's' books into musicals — as opposed to making them up from scratch — has some advantages, namely in immediate brand recognition.
In between scenes of Broadway's "Catch Me If You Can," actress Kerry Butler will likely share a snafu with cast members backstage, then will find a quiet spot and "tweet" about it.
Lawson Caldwell's predictable and slow play attempts to be clever and shocking but suffers from contrived plot twists and two-dimensional characters.
NCM Fathom and Arts Media Alliance's partnership with Shakespeare's Globe in London allows the Bard's plays to come alive in their original theatrical form in more than 275 movie theaters.
Vaudeville comedy blends with epic despair in Tony-winning director Garry Hynes' chilling and funny production of Seán O'Casey's rarely seen 1928 anti-war play.
Theatreworks USA's latest show fuses a variety of children's tales and musical devices, and while the trite songs and scenes keep children rapt for 60 minutes, the musical struggles to fin…
Entrepreneurial actors agree that they prefer running a business of their own to temping at law firms or waiting tables or tackling the many other jobs that actors typically take between a…
With thousands of actors already in New York and many more coming each year, finding a community in this expensive and intimidating city can be daunting, particularly given New Yorkers' no…
Danny Aiello is excited to talk about his current project, Susan Charlotte's "The Shoemaker," in which he plays the title role, a character who reaches high emotional levels.
The worlds of opera and musical theater merge in a lovable and full-bodied production of this Irving Berlin classic. Once she relaxes, soprano Deborah Voigt delivers a warm-hearted Annie.
The Tony Award-winning star of the TV show "3rd Rock From the Sun" will star as Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club world premiere of David Auburn's "The Columnist" this spring.
Zach Braff—a filmmaker and actor best known for TV's "Scrubs"—turns to playwriting with this spiky dark comedy that, though zestfully performed, never completely convinces.
David Farr's meticulous direction of the outstanding RSC ensemble somehow marries the stark drama and playful comedy of this problematic work in a compelling production.
The New York actor voices support for merger, then is appointed to a third two-year term.
In a virtuosic evening concerned with the creation of character, David Greenspan hilariously plays all the parts in a 1920s farce, then follows it with an intriguing monologue on his acting …
It's easy to see why Danny Aiello was attracted to this superficial tearjerker. The lead is a showy part, but the play reduces Sept. 11 and the Holocaust to soap-opera fodder.
This sassy irreligious musical is provocative and funny but commits one major sin: the lead performance by the author of its book, music, and lyrics.
