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Ken Novice has been named managing director at the Geffen Playhouse.
With the three-hander "Voice Lessons," Tanner has infused his quirky insight and jaundiced sense of humor (honed through 16 produced stageworks) within the hilarious machinations of self-del…
In Richard Greenberg's "Our Mother's Brief Affair," world preeming under helmer Pam MacKinnon in Greenberg's familiar (10 plays to date) South Coast Rep digs, Jenny O'Hara triumphantly chomp…
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It's what happens after the great marlin is triumphantly caught that makes this stage production of the classic Ernest Hemingway tale more than a fish story -- and one that is distinctive, d…
Zac Efron's squeaky-clean tweener-bait profile is unlikely to be threatened by "17 Again," an energetic but earthbound comic fantasy.
It's a must-see for those fascinated by the lore of the U.S.' modern Camelot, as well as another sure to be lavishly adorned movie for the pay channel.
Festival program veers away from tradition
Popular play gets new performances
Shuberts rule Broadway
Musical uses to openings to hone material
'Calendar Girls,' 'War Horse' storm London
Tina Howe's Chasing Manet almost makes you envy its mentally ill characters the good fortune of not knowing where they are. Everyone else in the theater is aware they're watching a bad example of the nursing home drama—a genre that, by definition, does not have much life left in it. With the exception of one interesting monologue, beautifully delivered by David Margulies, the play falls flat, cut off at the knees by embarrassingly sketchy characterizations and Michael Wilson's tone-deaf direction.
The Bergmans recently completed work on Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant" with composer Marvin Hamlisch and are currently working on two musicals, one with Hamlisch and one with Michel Leg…
It's safe to say nostalgists won't feel cheated by "Rock of Ages," and that it won't be stealing audiences from "South Pacific." But by the time the ensemble unites on Journey's "Don't Stop …
Actors coached include James Earl Jones
'Night' to open June 4 at Downstairs Cabaret
$1.4 mil for theater ticket sales in two days
'Guys and Dolls' takes a tumble
Jessica Kubzansky steers this vehicle into a vein of heartfelt musing on loss, regret and entitlement; it's an altogether exciting, richly rewarding experience.
David Bryan and Joe DiPietro's adaptation of "a movie most people watched when they were stoned," as the script confesses, has a fine sense of place, several very funny setpieces and thesps …
While Durang hits his mark in the familiar territory of domestic dysfunction, his political wit is less incisive, yielding a comedy of diminishing returns.
What would Audrey Hepburn do, if she walked into a performance of Being Audrey and saw her cinematic persona being invoked as a quasi-divine font of saving grace? Chances are, that gracious lady would shine her beatific smile on the Transport Group's misguided efforts to make a musical about a woman's attempt to escape the trauma of her husband's heart attack by transporting herself into an alternative reality of film romance. Then the movie legend would gracefully beat it out the door before anyone could ask what she really thought of the show.
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