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Good bye Mary Martin, ta ta Mitzi Gaynor, miss ya Ezio Pinza. The new Broadway cast recording of South Pacific will hit stores on May 27.
Nearly 50 years old, Edward Albee's The American Dream and The Sandbox still are fresh, funny, startling and always original.
Even if the Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein Juno doesn't work, it's important that such musicals are temporarily rescued from oblivion. Isn't that what City Center Encores! is all about?
The Mint Theater had it right when it dusted off Hemingway's 71-year old play and put it on stage. The Fifth Column has lively characters spouting no-nonsense dialogue.
August: Osage County more than lives up to its advance billing. The writing is compelling and the ensemble acting accomplished.
Maria Friedman's back in Maria Friedman Re-arranged and though her vocal power is somewhat diminished, she is a performer whose enthusiasm and powers of connection are undimmed.
Arthur Laurents has given us arguably the definitive production of what is unquestionably a perfect musical.
This musical, based on Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, is an affectionate portrait of a New England family. The words and music breezily set just the right mood.
At first glance, Days of Significance could be seen as an inverted Much Ado About Nothing, but the Roy Williams drama is well-grounded in its own time and place.
If The Fifth Column is any evidence, as a playwright, Hemingway was a darn good short-story writer.
Howard Brenton's Never So Good offers a surprisingly lively account of one-time Conservative party leader, Harold Macmillan, ably played by Jeremy Irons.
It's been a successful move to Broadway for In the Heights. The cast is as charming, energetic and charismatic as ever.
True, London audiences watching Jersey Boys may not get all the references American audiences do, but the songs are bound to start the juices flowing and the feet a tappin'.
Caryl Churchill is at it again: making bold political statements in her pointed plays. The play may last only 45 minutes, but she's able to catalogue a whole laundry list of American wrongs …
This Seagull revival - yes another one - doesn't exactly soar, but it has wings and a kind of airy grace.
Tovah Feldshuh is making her New York night club debut. With a good voice and great comedic skills, what's she been waiting for?
The new Goodman theater season will include Stoppard, Gilman and Nottage, among others.
November is not a furious David Mamet take on politics. In fact, don't take the play too seriously at all. And be happy that Nathan Lane is more at home with this role than he's been with a …
This revival of Cat on a Hot tin Roof is done in by bad directing and questionable casting.
Next stop 181st Street: In the Heights has successfully made the trip uptown to Broadway from Off-Broadway. It is, indeed, a glorious evening in the theater.
The Oliviers came calling and Hairspray picked up four awards, including Best Musical
The re-casting of The Sound of Music has caused a once commendably eccentric, even moving production to morph into a conventional and routine one.
Like Sarah Ruhl's last play, Eurydice, her latest Dead Man's Cell Phone also involves interaction between the living and the dead-only it's less magical and less mystical.
