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It may have lit up Broadway more than 20 years ago, but there aren't a whole lot of dramatic fireworks on display in "Fifth of July," a revival of Lanford Wilson's 1978 play.
Show queens have a good excuse to dance in the aisles this week. Tomorrow, a movie adaptation of a Broadway musical may top Billboard's Album Chart for the first time in a quartercentury. Th…
Off-topic, I know, but I love Paul Weller...
Interestingly, the subtitle in French for "Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran" is "Man Reconciled." The play is the work of Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, one of France's leading contempo…
Just as married couples could use some tricks to spice up the bedroom, so middle-of-the-road R&B performers could use some quirks to perk up their shows. Chante Moore and Kenny Lattimore must agree, because this week they ditched a normal concert setup to mount instead an elaborate theatrical event.
See the Times' review below.
Pantoliano is the most convincing Johnny I've seen (including Kenneth Welsh, who played it in the original production opposite the incomparable Kathy Bates).
In his last few plays, Shakespeare took themes he'd wrestled with throughout his career and reimagined them.
Considering that he's best remembered for his jazzy prose, novelist Jack Kerouac would likely be mortified by the stilted, overwrought dialogue in "Kerouac," Tom O'Neil's static biographical…
Besides the usual dancing, drinking, dining and mingling, clubgoers who stop by the Copacabana tonight can expect to be laughing, too.
No one could have imagined that "Oklahoma!" would be the icon it is today. In its current incarnation, it remains an inspiring piece of Americana.
By turns violent, vulgar, fierce and funny - often all at the same time - Irish playwright Enda Walsh's "bedbound" is a bizarre, almost cartoonish black comedy that's like watching a Road Ru…
In the delightful, wonderfully performed musical "Cookin' at the Cookery: The Music and Times of Alberta Hunter," the singer-songwriter's life story unfolds to the accompaniment of nearly tw…
In life, as for stage and screen, Bob Fosse was all about showmanship
"Julius Caesar" may be one of the best-known Shakespeare plays, but, at least here in New York, it is seldom performed, in part because of the toga problem.
The productions of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" performed in repertory at the BAM Harvey Theater are so impressive that now I can't wait to see "Gypsy."
Brilliant ensemble acting highlights "Comedians," a blistering revival of Trevor Griffiths' mid- '70s drama about British working-class stiffs seeking fame and fortune as stand-up comics.
Racks up 3 awards, 'The Hours' takes 2
'Waiting for Godot,' Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece, turns 50
English screen star Emily Watson sharpens her skills in a BAM double-hander
An engaging, often hilarious spoof of early-1930s melodramas set in the mysterious Far East, "Shanghai" has Charles Busch, the writer and star of such cult shows as "Vampire Lesbians of Sodo…
The first year of Bravo's reality series "The It Factor" took place in New York, following aspiring actors and comics as they tried to break into showbiz.
Now, the setting shifts to Los Angeles, but the ruthless and fascinating cattle-call audition process is the same and just as entertaining.
Rarely have a pair of pathetic, degenerate and whiny losers been so much fun to listen to as in "The Mystery of Attraction," a dark, quirky comedy by Marlane Meyer that was originally produc…
