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The White Plains Performing Arts Center appears to have obvious budgetary constraints, but their pocket-sized version of the 1973 Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler tuner has heart and a handful …
The first major London revival of "Dancing at Lughnasa" confirms the greatness of Brian Friel's 1990 play, though Anna Mackmin's fine production doesn't always harness the anger and pain jus…
"Master Class," Terrence McNally's 1995 homage to turbulent opera diva Maria Callas, retains its bite in Wendy C. Goldberg's vivid new staging at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
Given Jackson's apparent affinity for the supper-club format, one hopes he will rethink his material in favor of songs that better showcase his talents.
Several Broadway productions posted generally minor box office declines last week -- but the Street's overall cume rose, thanks to an incoming tide of previewing shows.
Somehow, the combination of ever-clever translator Tom Stoppard and worldly wise French playwright Gerald Sibleyras produced the kind of quaint work upon which Keen Company can be relied to pounce. The story of three WWI vets whiling away their autumn years in an old soldiers' home, Heroes benefits from helmer and Keen a.d. Carl Forsman's sure hand, excellent design work by the ubiquitous Beowulf Borritt and some choice acting. It's a shame the play's Gotham premiere hasn't had a few more rehearsals, though—this piece could use a good deal more of the company's trademark polish and precision.
Event to run April through July in So. California
"Lust for Life" isn't just Kirk Douglas' favorite pic. It's also his defining trait, based on his charmingly discursive memoir "Before I Forget."
"Heroes" benefits from helmer and Keen a.d. Carl Forsman's sure hand, excellent design work by the ubiquitous Beowulf Borritt and some choice acting. It's a shame the play's Gotham premiere …
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Kathy Najimy headlines musical review
Peter Flannery's assured adaptation of the movie "Burnt by the Sun" exerts an increasingly tense grip, but its hallmark is its command of the past's impact upon the present, an understanding…
There's a difference between asking an audience to witness the challenges of understanding and coping with a neurobehavioral disorder and forcing them unrelentingly to experience that state.…
Richard Lorber's Alive Media has purchased the rights to "Theater of War," John Walter's docu about the Meryl Streep-Kevin Kline production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and her Childr…
Ultimately, the problem here lies less with Zimmerman than with the conservative Met aud. This will no doubt be a minority opinion, but the director's opera-within-an-opera conceit fits Bell…
While Smith doesn't shy away from touchy religious topics, he cuts off the soul-searching just when it begins to get challenging, delivering believe-it-or-else marching orders and covering u…
Patrick Marber is set to write the script, a task he handled on "Notes on a Scandal," the Rudin-produced 2006 Fox Searchlight film that was also based on a Heller novel.
In general, though, the helmer relies too much on the charm of his redoubtable lead actor and too little on the nuts and bolts of any Shakespeare production: clear language, clean blocking a…
Awards show will take place April 19
Revival grosses top dollar at previews
Elizabeth Swados has always gone her own way, and her new music-theater piece is stamped with some of her familiar idiosyncrasies: the childlike perspective; the atonal operatics; the surrea…
The ultra-literary Mint Theater's latest project is the New York premiere of D.H. Lawrence's strange, unjustly forgotten play The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, about a mistreated wife at the end of her rope. Helmer Stuart Howard gives the compact piece a delicate staging that accentuates its characters' depths, and fine performances by Julia Coffey and Eric Martin Brown flesh out its central troubled marriage. The production is a major get for bookworms and theater buffs alike, repping a rare chance to see Lawrence's world alive on stage.
The opening image in Des McAnuff's strangulated revival is of Damon Runyon pounding his typewriter, framing the production unequivocally in a fictional world. But the unintended effect has b…
'Happy Days' vet was actor, director, editor
