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David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Good People” was named the best play of the 2010-2011 season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Monday night.
Target Margin Theater takes on "The Tempest," giving it a whimsical makeover and forgetting its heart.
Lynn Nottage follows up her shattering play "Ruined" with a scathingly funny satire on showbiz stereotypes of African-American women.
Andrea Wolff shows some stage presence and vocal prowess in this bawdy one-woman show, but whether it works for you may depend on your tolerance for penis jokes.
This arty, misbegotten musical version of Bernard Shaw's "Candida" turns his sociopolitical romcom into a perfervid romantic triangle. The result can only be described as unbearably preci…
Christopher Tierney returned to rehearsals for Broadway's "Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark" Thursday -- less than five months after falling 35 feet during a live performance.
An L.A. supper club presents music from the director's famed "Moulin Rouge" and "Romeo + Juliet."
Tony Award-winning "Promises, Promises" actress Marian Mercer, whose five-decade career also included dozens of television appearances, has died in California at age 75.
Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents, who wrote the stage musicals "West Side Story" and "Gypsy" and the films "Rope" and "The Way We Were," has died. He was 93.
Martin M. Zuckerman's straightforward adaptation of Edith Wharton's novella opens in a safe production, which charms but also struggles to explore the source material's depth.
A solo attempt to make silk-purse poetry out of sow's-ear content is further marred by incessant arm and hand movements, rushed delivery, and a shortage of memorization.
Derek Jacobi will rip your heart out with his definitive performance in this forceful, stripped-down Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy.
Tony Kushner’s latest is full of fascinating people and plenty of interesting story, but as absorbing as it is, the play could still use further refinement and focus.
Suzanne Vega's cool, insinuating voice and smoldering stage presence transform her musical monologue about Carson McCullers into an original and evocative performance piece.
This controversial show may contain a damning takedown of the Catholic Church, but it is the man—and the performance—at its center that shines most brightly.
Top-notch acting fuels Ronan Noone's loaded new play, whose message destroys all existing hope for the inherent goodness of humans and confirms the innate selfishness in us all.
Harry Potter's magic did not work on the Tony Nominating Committee. The biggest news out of this morning's nominations is the snub of Daniel Radcliffe for "How to Succeed in Business Witho…
"Book of Mormon" led nominees for the Tony Awards with 14 nominations, and the critically acclaimed, "The Scottsboro Boys" nabbed 12 nominations, including Best Musical.
Two members of the New York Neo-Futurists bought two storage lockers at auction in the Bronx and piece together the lives of the former owners in this intriguing but overstuffed play.
Director Charlotte Moore manages to squeeze lots of action, laughs, and a full Irish wake onto the tiny Irish Rep stage in this rollicking revival of an 1874 comic melodrama.
"The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity" has received the Lucille Lortel Award for best play of the off-Broadway theater season, while "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" was named best musical.
Cranston joins Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Adam Shankman's rock musical.
"The People in the Picture" features Murphy as an actress in a spunky Yiddish theater troupe and her character decades later as an ailing 79-year-old grandmother in 1970s New York.
Tony Award winners Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose will announce the 2011 Tony Awards Nominations in a live video webcast on Tuesday morning from NYC.
Director Lynnea Benson's somewhat modern take on Shakespeare's comedy succeeds in its mastery of language and comedic timing, but its central actor fails to deliver.
