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Fans of lush, romantic, big-voiced musical comedy of the mid-20th century should plan a quick trip to the Encores! staging of "Fanny."
Bucchino, Green, Wright among playwrights
13P nabs Mellon Foundation funds for final four shows
A funny, frothy mix of pep, pop and wink-wink naughtiness.
'View' is good, but overall box office slumps
Thesp will receive chairman's award
Greig glows in scenestealing agent role
In the expanding world of live theatrical HD broadcasting, most of the business gets done not in some bustling hi-tech office space, but by a husband and wife in a Brooklyn brownstone with a…
It's expensive. It's labor-intensive. And it may or may not lead to a quantifiable box office benefit. But Broadway shows still push to get musical numbers featured on TV talkshows and other…
The latest revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's greatest musical touts Alexandra Silber as Julie Jordan.
Donald Margulies' new play is a thoughtful, absorbing work, its strengths maximized in the crystalline naturalism of Daniel Sullivan's production and the incisive interpretations of four ast…
Aside from a single, gut-wrenching aria of grief at the very end, Sam Shepard's two-hander Ages of the Moon presents itself as the dolefully funny but emotionally arid ruminations of two old coots as they sit on the front porch, getting drunk and watching the sun go down on their sorry lives. Reprising their roles in a sterling production originating at Dublin's Abbey Theater, Stephen Rea and Sean McGinley expertly chew on Shepard's hardtack dialogue, extracting every last drop of bitter humor and spitting out the gristle. But the spittle falls on very dry ground.
David Ives and Walter Bobbie take all the fun out of sexual power games by talking the subject to death.
Director Sam Mendes establishes a mood of gloom with his laborious staging.
The mostly obsolete art of the double bill gets an awfully nice lift.
Ah, late January: Just when Broadway sales are looking down, they manage to slide a little lower.
There's not a false note in any of the performances or an ill-considered directorial stroke in Mosher's clear-eyed approach to this first-rate revival.
Broadway, full-scale musical revivals took a blow this month when "Finian's Rainbow" and "Ragtime" closed abruptly.
This exploration and celebration of pure theater's power is a fascinating must-see.
