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'Translations' is the first of three Brian Friel plays that Irish Rep is staging this season. "It has a kind of politics, but it's so embracing of human life," director Doug Hughes says.
Part juke-box musical and part feel-good empowerment fable, this musical from Alicia Keys hungers for a home on Broadway.
"You can't cheat with Sondheim," says Gerard Alessandrini of the song spoofs in 'Forbidden Sondheim: Merrily We Stole a Song.' "I try to make the rhymes correct"and still be funny."
In the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.
Packed with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…
The story of the Comedian Harmonists"the German (and Jewish) singing sensations forced to break up due to the Third Reich"is told in this amiable if derivative musical.
This tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
As he prepares for a two-night concert of the Sondheim musical 'The Frogs,' Nathan Lane explains how what started with a chance bookstore encounter grew to a collaboration that involved seve…
Soaring sphynxes, Dionysian dance, Arachne's weavers and more than a little modern kink were on display at this fantastical and fetishistic Halloween happening.
"The idea of collaborating with your late father demands a deep breath," John Weidman says of revisiting his dad's show 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale.'
This portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
"I started reading these words and, I have to confess, there were so many that I didn't understand. The narrative of what I was trying to read made no sense to me, but there was something el…
The show trains our brains and bodies to sit alongside one another long enough to break down the self-imposed barriers we've built between us.
The one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim's final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
It the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
"It's a masterpiece," the director says of 'Merrily, We Roll Along.' "It's one of the great, great pieces of musical theater. It belongs on a Broadway stage."
Our imaginings feel remarkably truthful and present, while our real-world selves linger somewhere back at the Manderley Bar.
The Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O'Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
He made his Broadway debut 41 years ago playing the title role in 'Pippin' and has appeared on TV in everything from 'Matlock' to 'The Wizards of Waverley Place.' But this is John Rubi…
In no way does Etheridge reinvent the solo theatrical memoir. But she performs with a natural ease, like your wild aunt telling stories over beers one Thanksgiving.
At the center of a prodigious cast and Kenny Leon's clockwork staging are Leslie Odom Jr. and the astonishing Kara Young.
Since 'Hamilton,' he's been Oscar nominated, won a Golden Globe, written his autobiography, and recorded an album. Now he's back on Broadway in 'Purlie Victorious,' a show he first saw as a …
Playwright Theresa Rebeck has two shows this season"'Dig' Off Broadway and 'I Need That' on Broadway"and she's already at work on her next play.
Arnie Burton made his mark on Broadway with the Hitchcock parody 'The 39 Steps,' in which four actors play over 100 roles. The raucous 'Dracula, A Comedy Of Terrors' allots him a mere two ch…
Playwright Rebecca Gilman's keenly observed drama arrives Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater from Chicago's Goodman Theatre for a limited run.
