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David Zippel's beautifully structured, exquisitely executed revue is a dry-martini delight that should leave everyone, from aficionados of Broadway's coolest composer to the uninitiated, d…
Daniel Radcliffe, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Whoopi Goldberg will present Tonys during the June 12 ceremony. Also slated to appear: Chris Rock, Alec Baldwin and Kelsey Grammer.
Each wins five awards at Monday's ceremony, including the top musical prizes; "War Horse" and revival "The Normal Heart" top the best play categories.
Hickey is starring on Broadway as an AIDS-stricken journalist in a much-praised revival of Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart" and playing Laura Linney's troubled brother on Showtime's "The …
Eight years after its premiere in the New York International Fringe Festival, Brian Sloan's play still captures the elegiac but persevering mood that continues to shape the city after Sept…
Ensemble Studio Theatre's one-acts about displaced people trying to connect are only intermittently diverting. Though they're well-acted and presented with care, the evening rarely catches…
Jaime Espinal's satiric but overly silly play, which offers a tale of a superhero Latino immigrant adjusting to American culture, is embellished with nifty projections and a precise sound …
It's the first theatrical adaptation of a Grisham novel after a series of hit movies made from his legal thrillers, including "The Pelican Brief," "The Firm" and others.
"For Good," from the hit Broadway musical "Wicked," will be heard during two high-profile goodbyes: the season finale of "Glee" and the second-to-last airing of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Actors' Equity Association has elected 14 new members to its National Council, the union announced Monday. The new council members won five-year terms.
While it's always a pleasure to encounter James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim's woundingly beautiful, vibrantly theatrical meditation on mortality, director Eric Schaeffer's wham-bam-thank-…
From "Good People" to "Ghetto Klown" to "Lombardi," it was a bumper year for dramatic writers. Of the 25 plays that made it to Broadway for the 2010-2011 season, a robust 14 productions we…
The 77th Annual Drama League Awards Ceremony was hosted by Kathleen Turner. The show's presenters gave out prizes in the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square.
A play consisting of nothing but two-person conversations in the same restaurant booth could be static, but this is a moving and funny rumination on fatherhood.
Crystal Skillman's poetic dialogue suffuses this moving new play, which expertly explores deep human issues while chronicling the petty problems of reality television stars and writers.
What director Paula D'Alessandris and her cast have created in this New York premiere is a low-fi production that puts the emphasis firmly on the fine performances.
Zack Russell's commentary on the fate of Generation Y in the wake of omnipresent technology adequately makes its point, but his argument seems somewhat redundant and at times, unfathomable.
The story is silly and contrived, but Willard Beckman's campy little musical is a hilarious spoof and bravo for Varla Jean Merman.
The New York City Opera, a pillar of American culture that has for decades built daring new productions along with the careers of stars like Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Beverly Sill…
Michael Bonnabel's solo show "The Good Boy" is now running at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and it has been quite a journey for the writer-performer.
Before you embark on a production that might cost you thousands of dollars, you need to weigh why you want to shoot something, how you are going to do it, and what the potential rewards mi…
While nonunion talent in Florida is scarce, the overwhelmingly talented and trained actors who make their way to New York are saliva-inducing to a playwright-composer like I am.
Three one-act plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen and Elaine May are being bundled together and heading to Broadway this fall.
This new Antony and Cleopatra musical comedy wants to be a burlesque laughfest in the style of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," but it's deficient in pretty much every dep…
Despite a clearly committed solo performance, the staging of this 95-minute bioplay about art collector Peggy Guggenheim is cramped and literally artless.