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What the world needs now, it seems, is Burt Bacharach's 'Love'
Through Sunday night, the best show in town, hands down, is the City Center Encores! concert version of Sigmund Romberg's 1928 "The New Moon," which yielded such songs as "Lover, Come Back t…
One of the stories that KT Sullivan tells in her tribute to Harold Arlen - in the Oak Room of the Algonquin - is how Ira Gershwin was partly responsible for Arlen's most famous song, "Over the Rainbow."
Playwright A.R. Gurney uses the Sept. 11 attacks to climb on his soapbox about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in "O Jerusalem," a heavy-handed political drama with a generous amount of hum…
Tovah Feldshuh goes the extra mile to physically resemble Golda Meir in "Golda's Balcony," a beautifully acted one-woman show about the Israeli prime minister. Yet it really isn't necessary.
There's one less play being presented at this year's "Songs From Coconut Hill," a Latino theater festival that had its inaugural run last year. Yet the festival has hardly taken a step backw…
We think of Don Juan as a serial seducer. In the 17th century, however, his sin was blasphemy. The shock of Molière's 1665 "Don Juan" lies in the fact that a man who has only contempt for G…
Hilary Swank's mouth should have its own Screen Actors Guild card.
If this is the first you're hearing about William Finn's revue "Elegies," trust me, it's not for you.
College students are resigned to accepting boredom as part of their fate, making them the most likely audience for a three-hour-and-two-minute presentation of historical references, document…
Every time director Jim Simpson and wife Sigourney Weaver show "The Guys" — their movie about a New York City fire captain burdened with writing eulogies for his men lost at the World Trad…
NBC's in the big picture with 'Chicago' rights
Our reviewers Howard Kissel & Robert Dominguez look over new productions "Buicks," "Zanna, Don't!" and "Polish Joke."
'Chicago' is the best bet to dance all over the Best Picture competition
In "F-- A," playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' take on "The Scarlet Letter," Hester carries a flaming red "A" on her chest - except it's been branded into her skin.
New wave of singers strikes a soothing chord with older listeners
Mike Nichols imports play inspired by legendary British comedy duo
It's just before St. Patrick's Day and paper shamrocks decorate shop windows along upper Broadway. Hustling up the street, paying no attention to his surroundings and looking for all the wor…
A rollicking country-rock score, some Elvis Presley lore and a tragic Greek myth make for an uneven blend in "Heat Lightning," a music-theater piece about a singer's extramarital affair.
When it comes to corporate backstabbing, skulduggery, scandals and corruption, the quartet of scheming secretaries in "Hold, Please" make Enron executives look like mailroom clerks.
The sets and costumes capture the period well, but "Albertine" reduces Proust's monumental work to something trivial and tedious.
There is a haunting, wistful quality to "Havana Under the Sea," a new musical presented by INTAR Theatre on W. 53rd St., that extends beyond the show's metaphorical premise.
Howard Kissel: Before the New York City Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" began Tuesday night, Sondheim was given an award named in his honor.
