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Like the stage version of the same name, Hairspray, the movie musical, offers up toe-tappin' hand-slappin' good times
Return with us now to the good old days, say, the 1960s when musicals could be pretty good. Return with us now to Bajour
Can there be a better place to do The Merchant of Venice, than Shakespeare's Globe? Up close and personal to all the players, the play's dynamics are on full view
Operetta is a poor stepchild, if that, to musical comedy these days. A Night at the Operetta gives reason to hope for its revival
Gone but not forgotten. That would be LoveMusik, the show about the lives of Kurt Weil and Lotte Lenya.
An ode to missing items might not be the stuff of great theater, but it certainly fills a hazy, lazy summer moment
What is a spiegeltent? No, it's not a tent full of spiegel catologues. Rather, it's a hodge podge of varied acts, part circus, part erotica
You gotta have a gimmick and this production of Gypsy has the best: Patti LuPone as Mama Rose
Gone Missing is a play about loss. No, not that kind of loss. Try shoes, pets, toys, or cell phones, for example
The shades of Moose Murders and Dude can relax tonight. Xanadu is actually a pleasant evening's diversion
Betrayal could be the feeling when audiences know how a show ends when it starts. But, it's merely a revival of Harold Pinter's wonderful backwards play
The Quantum Eye, had to make a last-minute move from Soho Playhouse's basement cabaret space to the roomier, more traditional theater on its main floor.
What was the Roundabout thinking when it revived John van Druten's Old Acquaintance? Not clearly, that's for certain.
David Suchet as Cardinal Benelli, who starts the play by confessing a crime and dominates the proceedings with his fixed, hooded glare and imposing physical presence, his pleasant corpulence…
Tarzan will be closing soon, but did the ape man deserve a better fate?
Somehow the action and words fail to mesh in Neil LaBute's latest, In a Dark Dark House
Costing around 25 million bucks, The Lord of the Rings is a take-your-breath away visual experience. Too bad, all that money couldn't buy a better score or an audience-involving libretto
Kismet, back in revival and done by the ENO-who could ask for anything more? Well, not quite. The score still wows and the cast is top-shelf, but the production is a soggy mess
The prolific Neil LaBute is at it again, with another new play, In a Dark Dark House . Only in this one, you really care about his characters--against your better judgment
Dancing in the Streets to tap its last in the West End on July 14. Major national and international tour set
Not so keen on Kean. The show to close earlier than planned on July 14
With the eight-piece saga now in front of us, it's clear why people keep returning to Intimate Exchanges. They've become smitten with the characters
The Producers plays Las Vegas; a match to make the mouth water. Hold on. The production falls a little flat, like a two-day old spritz of selzter
