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Tuner noms could feature shows with pre-existing songs
"Sondheim on Sondheim" is engrossingly entertaining and thoroughly captivating. An enchanting, warm and provocative opportunity to hear not only Sondheim's songs but -- literally -- the mast…
Star's online promo for the conservative-oriented RightNetwork could create viral storm.
David Grieg's spare and savage re-do of "Creditors."
While the novel still shocks today as it exposes the nexus of religion, spiritualism and sensuality underlying the American dream, here it's reduced to a humdrum showbiz-as-life decadence me…
Baker is a real talent and she can do better than this.
PROFILE IN EXCELLENCE: MEL BROOKS: Springtime for the funniest man alive
A personal, charming, clever play with a hip-hop bent, about a Puerto Rican brother and sister trying to make their way in the world after their mother's death.
This tale of three slackers from small-town USA has been given a visually robust style, an ear-splitting sound and a rock-concert feel by director Michael Mayer, as well as several elements …
Jordan is consistently affable and charming.
"The Liar," a seldom produced 17th-century French farce by Pierre Corneille about a carefree fellow's blissful disregard for the truth, has been refashioned in a clever new adaptation writte…
"Posh" is neither elegiac nor feel-good.
For all its campily ghoulish trappings, the material is familiar and sometimes downright stale.
Thesp led stage and screen career
Broadway sales continued to soften last week following the annual spring-break boost -- but that didn't stop playgoers from turning out en masse for Denzel Washington.
Why bring back La Cage aux Folles—a major hit musical of the 1983-84 Broadway season, but certainly not a classic like Gypsy or Fiddler on the Roof—only five years after its first Broadway revival? Especially when that 2004-05 stint proved a tired and unnecessary affair, suggesting that the original production (with its six Tony Awards) was stronger than the material. The producers of this new edition, which premiered at London's Menier Chocolate Factory in 2007, have a convincing answer: It's funny, heartwarming and terrific.
Road grosses
A.R. Rahman shifts focus to live performance
As a Texas-based right-wing corporate monolith, Clear Channel was never a great fit with Broadway.
Award for musical creatives comes with $100,000
Actress to star in adaptation of the best-selling novel
Actor will topline Meriwether's 'Oliver!'
Dancers' union looks to expand territory to Broadway
