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LaBute's play succeeds in the perverse goal he sets. It is, for most of the evening, giddily entertaining, but when it ends you are overcome by a sense of poignancy and awkwardness.
Last night at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, Spacey played a Darin-style nightclub show.
Recent transplant Keri Russell stars in Neil LeBute's new play.
Robert McCrum has written a topping P.G. Wodehouse bio
It has been given a loving, heartwarming revival.
Opening and closing nights
"There aren't a lot of plays where we get to feel this dignified." - B.D. Wong
As a play, "A Number" is not satisfying. As an acting exercise, it's fascinating.
At times, the play seems strained in its effort to sound so many notes, but in Leon's gifted hands, the actors give Wilson's noble vision a luminous aura.
Courageous couple among 6 in tribute at Kennedy Center
"700 Sundays" is a brave portrait of an eccentric, endearing family. It is hilarious and unexpectedly touching.
How will "The Phantom of the Opera," opening Dec. 22, stack up against the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical on which it's based and the various movie versions of Gaston Leroux's 1910 Gothic horro…
Paradoxically, it is far less exotic than the original production by Harold Prince, which had a kind of reverence for Japanese culture quite absent here.
Familiar sounds hit the Great White Way
"Law & Order" detective Jerry Orbach has been handed what may be the toughest case of his career - a battle against prostate cancer.
For fans of vintage TV, the CBS presentation of 1964's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the PBS telecast of 1957's "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" still are worth noting.
And worth watching.
"Doubt" turns headline material into deeply moving drama.
At the risk of sounding like a humbug, I feel compelled to announce that the new musical version of "A Christmas Carol," starring Kelsey Grammer as Ebenezer Scrooge, is not a triumph.
For audiences who assume Allen is supposed to provide laughs, "Memory" will be a disappointment. But the play suggests a new willingness to confront themes like betrayal and the cost of stif…
Nobody tells Whoopi Goldberg what to do.
Nobody.
