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... her current act, at the Carlyle for three weeks, seems likely to appeal to diehard fans only.
Scripter Paul Kikuchi's undernourished ethnocentric comedy, "Ixnay," unsuccessfully attempts to peruse the dynamics of contemporary Asian-American identity, prejudice and racial stereotyping…
... a production so static and misdirected you start glancing around half-expecting the audience to mutiny.
This flavorless new musical is not exactly terrible, but it's not terribly interesting, either, which makes you wonder why its producers thought it belonged on Broadway. Whatever the reason,…
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment has purchased spec script "Old Timers" from playwright Noah Haidle.
Anton Chekhov's vast, gorgeously imagined tapestry of intersecting Russian lives barely survives the shaky dramaturgy plaguing Christopher McElroen's inexpert staging, but several adroit per…
New agent for Oscar nominee
Actor joins Angelina Jolie on Columbia thriller
Presidents Day weekend brought a box office boost to Broadway last week, with total sales rising almost $2 million to $14.4 million for 23 shows on the boards.
There's a lot of jazz about F. Scott Fitzgerald's supposed homoerotic fixation on Ernest Hemingway (and Papa's ambivalent reaction to same), but it doesn't add up to a convincing portrait of…
Tony winner the first costume designer to win
In the hands of director Pam MacKinnon in Arena Stage's searing and astute revival, the concept gets a most illuminating illustration.
A dream cast brings out all the material's humor without stinting on emotional commitment. If there's any justice, tickets to the Freud Playhouse should be the hottest in town for a too-limi…
With his new showcase at the Flea Theater, Itamar Moses risks serious abuse on the subject of gender politics. But the final word on the writer's five-play mini-marathon is that it's a hell …
Producer David Mirvish on Sunday announced a March 29 closing date for the Toronto run of "Dirty Dancing, the Classic Story on Stage." When it shutters, the tuner will have played 582 perfor…
Road Grosses
Musical adapts on its way to Broadway
Casting news of Robert Pattinson proved false
Political play only 10 minutes long
Though a tad uneven once it develops more serious shades, this serenely funny new work by the author of "Eurydice" and "The Clean House" sparkles with wit and invention in Les Waters' pitch-…
Richard Bean's iconoclastic, century-hopping cartoon of a play is big, bold and unremittingly boisterous. But the unsubtle tenor of its no-expletive-deleted satire will infuriate as many as …
Margulies' dissection of one such pair's misapprehension, brilliantly acted by a quartet of thesps and impeccably helmed by Daniel Sullivan, invests the title with yet another connotation: P…
