Broadway's musical breach was Off-Broadway's boon. The strike by the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 diverted audiences to Off-Broadway houses in large numbers during the four-day work stoppage.
Big strike role for Mike
The main character of an intriguing political drama is a corrupt, power-hungry dictator whose reign of fear, torture and intimidation has a concerned U.S. seeking a regime change. And no, we…
"The Great American Songbook" (tonight at 10, WNET-Ch. 13) begins just before the turn of the 20th century, when the distribution of sheet music and piano-player rolls combined to make the first million-selling song: 1892's "After the Ball Is Over."
great Kate serves up another by Howard Kissel
Musicians should not be sacrificed in the battle to lower the cost of producing shows. It is absurd, for example, that Glenn Close's weekly salary in "Sunset Boulevard" was probably equivalent to the payroll for the entire orchestra.
But unless some compromises on minimums are reached quickly, this strike will be not only destructive but deeply self-destructive.
Cost to city grows, but musicians, owners far apart
Don't be misled by the mystery that sets "Our Lady of 121st Street" in motion - the theft of a beloved nun's body from its casket at a Harlem wake.
There is nothing revelatory in Nicholas Wright's "Vincent in Brixton," which attributes Vincent van Gogh's explosive art to a brief stay in London when he was 20.
Barbra Streisand, homewrecker? That's never been a part of the pop diva's resume, but Streisand unwittingly plays a role in the disintegration of a Hollywood marriage in "Barbra's Wedding," …
With her midlife hangups, boyfriend problems and a biological clock that's quickly counting down, the borderline neurotic at the center of "String Fever" could easily be one of "Sex and the …
Rushdie saga of India is arriving uptown
Pop-art icon Keith Haring gets the bio-musical treatment in "Radiant Baby," a flashy, razzle-dazzle portrait of the graffiti artist as a doomed young man.
Call it a Big Fat Greek Reading.
Somebody finally realized that the brilliant runaway box-office hit and prohibitive Oscar favorite "Chicago" did not direct itself.
Currently appearing in 'The Hours,' Mrs. Woolf is now the subject of a play
B'way composer Galt MacDermot's work does all the shouting
Jerry Herman had the misfortune to begin his career in the early '60s, just before the musical theater began to take itself very, very seriously.
Call me un-American, but I have never cottoned to baseball. As a result, I cannot wax eloquent over the baseball imagery in Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out."
A college professor's belief that chivalry isn't dead gets put to the test in "Scattergood," an intriguing, sharply written character study by Irish playwright Anto Howard.
When Barbra Streisand married James Brolin on July 1, 1998, actor Daniel Stern found his muse. His first play is "Barbra's Wedding," opening next Wednesday.
Frank McGuinness' "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme" is about men - recruits from Northern Ireland in World War I - living with the memory of tragedy.