Among many, many other accomplishments, Neidlinger helped Barbara Streisand write songs, served as the principal bassist for the LA Chamber Orchestra, and was the principal bassist for the W…
He haunted flea markets in Oakland and found quilts at the stall of Rosie Lee Tompkins. Eventually, she let on that they were her work. "He began to buy whatever she would sell him while als…
In short, Harper Lee agreed to let Aaron Sorkin write a script, but it wasn't supposed to change the characters or "denigrate" them. Lee's dead, but her lawyer says the script (of a play tha…
The composer: "You are in a strange landscape. You don't know how to read the weather or the light. You are unsure how long you will be here, or how challenging the journey may be. 'This is …
Euro Disney comics, that is, which are multitudinous and a little weird for those used to U.S. Disney style and storyline. For instance, "the 200-page volume features a story about Mickey ba…
A video of this building, with a lot of show notes after the video. If you love Broadway, you'll probably want to watch it a few times. Like, a lot of times, just to enjoy the building: "Mor…
Basically, we have a cultural disconnect, or a potential one: "What happens when art shaped by utopian principles and intended as a civic gift to a temporary city is uprooted from its native…
You take some a woman with button eyes, a portal into another world, and a plucky heroin, and add music, of course. "Around a table, two "magic consultants" were huddled around a miniature t…
Mr. Tabakov was well known for scores of films, but his biggest impact was in the theater, as an actor, director and mentor of future stars.
Here is how our panel of lawyers looked at key issues in a lawsuit over Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel.
The musical puppetry of Mr. Twist's "Symphonie Fantastique," returning to HERE for a three-month run, blurs the line between eye and ear.
"Ms. Wersba began writing in the 1960s, and her work reflected the era's new realism in literature for younger readers with stories no longer confined to intact nuclear families and sanitize…
Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" has been transformed into an opera in London, with music by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It goes to some genuinely disturbing places.
The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
Why are galleries that incubate emerging talent finding it so difficult to survive? Is it simply the pressure of rising rents in expensive cities like London and New York? Or is there a wide…
Anticipating the new tax law " which gets rid of deductible expenses " actors are looking into becoming corporations.
Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
This sumptuous if uninvolving Encores! production invites you to wallow with the beautiful and damned in old Berlin.
As a tormented young gay man aspiring to be a Broadway dancer, he delivered a wrenching monologue. But his career soon took a downturn.
Dreamer, with music by Jimmy López (the opera Bel Canto and text by Nilo Cruz (a Pulitzer winner for the play Anna in the Tropics), was commissioned two years ago by Cal Performances in B…
Why the linchpin of Marvel's "Avengers" movies " and walking image of American fortitude " is giving it all up to play a villain on Broadway (and learn to tap dance).
Why is "the Scottish play" so hard to get right? Two productions in Britain show why Shakespeare's shortest tragedy is also his trickiest.
The Parrotheads were after me. Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
The team behind the P.T. Barnum musical answered reader questions about the word-of-mouth hit. Even they were a little surprised by moviegoers' responses.
His solo show will run through Dec. 15, but tickets are available only to those who tried to get them earlier.