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Let's get the really important issue out of the way first: Lorraine Bracco has an infinitely more inviting body than Kathleen Turner, whom she replaced in "The Graduate."
In the charming one-woman show "Class Mothers '68," Priscilla Lopez does everything but hand out programs and work the lights. She acts, sings and dances, changes into as many accents as she…
If the two women in Nora Ephron's "Imaginary Friends" were unknown intellectuals, would anybody care? As it happens, they are Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy, who were writers of great int…
Porn is in this Off-Broadway season. Hot on the spiked heels of "Debbie Does Dallas," the musical spoof of the '70s skin flick, comes "Adult Entertainment," a fluffy, funny sendup.
Lorraine Bracco has become best known for her work on "The Sopranos," where, as Dr. Jennifer Melfi, she helped Tony tame his primal urges.
In certain circles, those words became known as The Line. It poisoned the final years of both Hellman and McCarthy, writers of high reputation, and reverberates through "Imaginary Friends," …
Not a lot happens in "What Didn't Happen," wunderkind playwright Christopher Shinn's latest work, an articulate, subtle and ultimately sad drama about writers grappling with varied levels of…
Of all the Greek tragedies, the one that gets produced most often is the story of the woman who, to spite her unfaithful husband, murders their children. "Medea" gets done so often simply be…
The weather may have been frigid yesterday, but the box office was hot at the Broadway Theatre after "La Bohème," Baz Luhrmann's version of the venerable opera, opened Sunday to rave review…
It is my sad duty to report that, although the writing is amateurish and vulgar, the music mindless and the acting - for the most part - ludicrously broad, "Vampires" does not reach the "Car…
All through the 19th century, opera was show business. In his Broadway production of Puccini's "La Boheme," which opened last night, Baz Luhrmann restores it to those roots.
For those who have been driven away from theater by expensive tickets, there's a cheaper way to hear the songs of Broadway from the front row and get a first look at tomorrow's writers and p…
The only understated element of Liza Minnelli's Christmas Spectacular at Town Hall Thursday night was Christmas. Nobody seemed to mind. On a stage with more orchestra than ornaments, Minnelli delivered the kind of gloriously brassy performance that made her an international star.
In "A View From the Bridge," Arthur Miller speaks to the uneasiness of America in the '50s - the enveloping sense of suspicion, the sexual insecurities. The play's tone, however, is not soci…
Tony Award-winning actress Lillias White is happy to be Off-Broadway in "Crowns." But she took on the role only after assures that she could take off time to perform in a musical running thi…
"Man of La Mancha," which was first produced in 1965 in a makeshift theater in Washington Square, has been given an expensive, high-tech Broadway revival.
It took actor-playwright Ossie Davis 40 years to finish the script for "A Last Dance for Sybil," a political drama he had always intended as a starring vehicle for his wife, Ruby Dee.
No American play describes more powerfully how we imagine ourselves than Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," which has been given a beautiful if flawed revival on Broadway, starring Paul Newman.
Mandy Patinkin's "Celebrating Sondheim" is just that - 90 minutes of the star of "Sunday in the Park With George" singing the songs of Stephen Sondheim.
Making a fashion statement is hardly the only reason black women have to wear elaborate hats to church on Sunday. Not according to "Crowns," a gospel-fueled musical.
New York City is going to be prime real estate for starving artists and beautiful dying divas in the months ahead - most of them singing in Italian. There will be three productions of "La Bo…
You won't find Max Von Essen's and Mandy Gonzalez' names on the marquee of the Minskoff Theater, where the musical "Dance of the Vampires" opens Dec. 9.
Andrea Marcovicci explores the many moods of Porter's love songs
Majors stars rise to challenge of Off-Broadway
