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Cooper Union trustees resign amidst continued controversy over decision to charge tuition at the long-free institution of higher learning.
As of 3:30 p.m., the winning show had moved more than $300,000 of tickets and was on track to do five times its normal daily business, she said in an e-mail. The Visit, the struggling Kander…
Costume designers are the unsung heroes in theater.
But the featured acting categories were a different story
Hosted by Alan Cumming and Kristin Chenoweth, the Tonys were light on vinegar and heavy on promotion.
Kulturefest, a celebration of Jewish culture and the NYTF, prepares for an eight day festival in NYC.
These days, type "Broadway tickets" in a web browser and it's easy to get confused.
Clocking in at 80 minutes without an annoying intermission, a new Broadway farce called An Act of God is my kind of show.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of SummerStage, the annual series of concerts, performances and film screenings that started in Central Park and over the years has given New Yorkers the…
The actor and singer has bequeathed a rare John Singer Sargent triple portrait from her private collection to the museum.
There are bad ballets, and then there is Boris Eifman. Plus, last week's 'Othello' by Lar Lubovitch for ABT will do nicely as an example of a merely bad ballet.
The company has brought to the stage two of the more successful plays now on Broadway: top-grossing 'The Audience,' and the two-play production of Hilary Mantel's novels 'Wolf Hall Parts One…
The featured actors are often forgotten in pre-Tony conversation, but these four categories are often among the most entertaining and unpredictable races on Tony night.
A. R. Gurney's memory play returns to the stage.
Latter-day William Shatner"Capt. James T. Kirk boldly gone into the Priceline era, with his self-parodying pitchman's routines and so-bad-they're-not-so-bad, spoken-word-meets-crooner albums…
"Yesterday is done."
Those are, appropriately enough, the first words you hear in the current version of Merrily We Roll Along, the long-troubled and oft-reworked musical with music and l…
There's a problem with the Manhattan Theatre Club revival of Wit, Margaret Edson's Pulitzer-winning play about a brilliant and demanding academic dying of cancer. This otherwise superb new p…
The first time Kevin Spacey gave The Observer chills was at the end of The Usual Suspects, the brilliantly tricky 1995 noir in which he played "Verbal" Kint, seemingly a small-time, crippled…
The rich are different from you and me"but they still have their problems, which may not be so different at all.
That, both halves of it, is the lesson of Stick Fly, a smart, thoughtful a…
The ritual surrounding a performance of Elective Affinities, the David Adjmi play in which the legendary Zoe Caldwell portrays an Upper East Side doyenne receiving you in her palatial Fifth …
She couldn't make it any clearer, really: Patti LuPone would prefer that you not cry for her.
And yet on the night The Observer saw An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin last we…
There are several reasons why one's jaw might drop"that is, literally fall agape"while one is sitting in a theater.
Sometimes it's from sheer amazement and delight, as when The Observer s…
An argument has been made, most recently and notably by Christopher Hitchens, that women are inherently not funny. It's not true, of course, but, still, there's a long history"from Phyllis D…
"What are the odds?"
It's a question that is repeated throughout Sons of the Prophet, a marvelous and moving new play by Stephen Karam that opened Thursday at the Roundabout Theatre Compa…
At least twice during his new show, the virtuoso monologist Mike Daisey refers to himself as an actor. Twice more, he calls himself a storyteller. He is of course both things, but the descri…
