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Warm up during the cold months to come with one of the FREE Thursday concerts at the David Rubenstein Atrium. at Lincoln Center, Broadwa…
As a theater magazine editor and critic, I'm always on the lookout for theater-related tidbits by news and political…
Reading Helen Simonson's delightful first novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, is a bit like indulging in a sinfully &n…
live theater at not much more than a movie ticketFive New Works by Emerging Artists inMetropolitan's Seventh Annual Living Literature Festival January 16 " 29, 201…
Albert (Jeremy Irvine) and his horse Joey in the movieDespite it's long run in London and New York and planned traveling productions, the incredibly imagi…
A Happy and Healthy Holiday to Our Readers. . .and everything good for 2012 &…
Connecticut -- If you're too young to remember radio plays. . . It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play- While it adds little to the warmth or sentiment of the original film, thi…
London Theater Goers have a chance to see Eddie Redmayne in Michael Grandage's farewell production at the Donmar. . .Richard II- Also the famous …
A Year On/Off Broadway Ends: Alas, With 3 Misfires After the delightful Once - a rare screen-to-stage adaptation that retains the charms of its s…
Hamlet at Home- How do you winkle out the magic and the thought behind Hamlet? Scott Elliott, the Artistic Director of The New Group did just that as part of the enjoyable "Dark N…
Bad Box Office Grosses Sink Paul Gross's Broadway debut in Private Lives Considering that I've seen my share of Noel Coward's idle rich hedonists who can't live peace…
New theater reviews at Curtainup/NJ Bakersfield Mist- an out-of-the-ordinary, almost out-of-the-blue ", but more importantly, outstanding" two-hander . . .Charles Dickens' A Christmas …
James X - Gerard Mannix Flynn's James is a natural, amiable Irish story teller, yet much of his humor is distracting. . . Stick Fly " Lydia R. Diamond's country house comedy a…
Blood and Gifts- enlightening and worthy as T. J. Rogers' dramatized history lesson is, his efforts to humanize the lesson never quite escapes its textbook roots.…
Nudity and Sex On Stage. . .When is Bare Bones the right costume? How real should sex scenes be? How necessary is all this in your face staging?&nbs…
Lincoln Center's public and visitors space on the Upper West Side, the David Rubenstein Atrium, has a range of , FREE programs this November, December and January -- the …
Private Lives " Paul Gross, Kim Cattrai new Elyot is tall, dark and handsome, the sort of debonair leading man born to wear tuxedos and silk dressing gowns and he foxtrots di…
This has been a wonderful few weeks for off-the-beaten track musicals. No million dollar song and dance shows at the top of tourist and …
Venus in Fur - The Classic Stage hit moves to Broadway with the star who was born at CSC aboard and better than ever. . .King Lear- Sam Waterston delivers a foot stamping, bipolar Le…
Chinglish- David Korins' gliding and swiveling sets that include a hotel lobby with elevator and revolving door come close to stealing this comedy about mis-communication …
Sons of the Prophet- This comedy about grief and pain will l indeed have you laughing often but it's also deeply touching and filled to the brim with serious issue…
Thursday, November 3 at 6:00pm, and Friday, November 4 at 3:00pm and 7:00pm, at The Snapple Centre, 1627 Broadway.Amas Musical Theatre will present <free staged readings of&nb…
When journalist Lawrence Wright took to the stage he began and ended his impassioned monologue, The Human Scale with footage about the young soldier Gilad…
New York Times critic Christopher Isherwood's Arts Beat blog about his plan to ask his editor to let him off the hook in terms of&…
The Kindle e-reader has finally embraced library lending. But before you find other uses for the money saved purchasing your book…
