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The most satisfying new work since last season's 'Downstate' has an obscenely gifted cast, led by Christina Kirk.
Community theater is a beautiful thing, and we don't have anywhere near enough of it in New York City.
Experiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
In 1974, four-year-old Ian Shaw visited his father Robert on the set of 'Jaws' and was scared by Bruce, the mechanical shark. Forty-nine years later he's playing his father on Broadway in 'T…
What's gained by staging Chekhov in the round, with actors just feet away, sometimes lit only by a candle? It's what you'd expect: a wonderfully intense experience of the text.
Robert Shaw's son Ian cowrote this behind the scenes look at the filming of 'Jaws,' and plays his father.
The actress lights up when she talks about this being the first all-Filipino cast in Broadway history.
This Broadway adaptation of the 1985 movie has some four-wheeled spectacle to offer. But not much else.
"Doing this show is pure joy," says Roger Bart of playing Doc Brown in 'Back to the Future: The Musical.'
The Tony winning actress swings between ecstasy and misery in this two-person show.
"The hardest part of putting a comedy together is that you put it together without an audience," Jason Alexander says of his Broadway directing debut, 'The Cottage.' "You just keep your fing…
An cast of six actors yell, shriek and swallow two hours of uniformly overwrought line readings in this noisy, witless farce. When everything else fails, one whole scene is devoted to fartin…
A strike has been averted, for now, though the contract must be approved by the membership.
"There's humor in every difficult situation," Edelman says of 'Just For Us,' which tells the story of this Orthodox Jewish comedian attending a gathering of white supremacists in Queens.
A Broadway star"and Tony nominee"since his 'American Idol' days, Constantine Maroulis talks about his role as '50s rock pioneer Alan Freed in the new musical 'Rock & Roll Man.'
For the first time in 20 years Stevenson is back in New York, drawing standing ovations nightly in 'The Doctor.' She talks about updating a play from 1912 for the world today, why she loves …
Singing! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon's direction of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked.
In this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about "the way the world is right now."
This family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick tha…
This is not the first time Death, or one of its alter egos, has figured in a Jacobs-Jenkins play.
Run don't walk to see Juliet Stevenson in a production that marks her first trip across the pond in 20 years. As for the play, you're on your own.
Wait, you've never heard of the Drama Desks?Â
The classic tale remains grim, graphic, and demanding, and Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara give it all they've got. But burdened with bluntly conversational songs, this musical fails to …
"I call it a fever dream," the actor says of the cabin-in-the-woods thriller. "There aren't a lot of plays like this that end up on Broadway."
There's a point here " men do terrible things and the universe will have revenge " but it's buried in a pretentious trauma-drama using horror tropes to diminishing effect.Â
