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Barry Weissler, who has produced "Chicago," "Grease" and "Annie Get Your Gun," is trying to lure "Sopranos" kingpin James Gandolfini back to the New York stage, where he once played in "A St…
When Joe Penhall's "Blue/Orange" opened in London two years ago, it was lauded as an incendiary, issue-laden drama on how race plays a huge, if unfair, role in diagnosing mental illness.
The more you learn about our Revolutionary War, the more you see what a miracle it was that we won it. We had a lot of lucky breaks. One of the luckiest was the capture of Maj. John Andre, a…
Baz Luhrmann is a lot like the movies he's directed ("Strictly Ballroom," "Romeo + Juliet," "Moulin Rouge"). He is smart, brash, almost messianic. Luhrmann also has more than a little bit of…
In the silly, surreal and occasionally raucous "The Fourth Sister," Polish playwright Janusz Glowacki depicts the despair and desperation of life in modern-day Moscow.
Just as Al Hirschfeld's illustrations are known for the number of "Ninas" you can count in curly hair or shirt wrinkles, the plays of David Mamet have been characterized by how much he uses …
In the future, the producers of "Tuesdays with Morrie" should slap a warning label on the cover of the Playbill: "Seeing this show without knowing it's based on real people may induce a diab…
It's surprising we don't see more thrillers in the theater, because in a thriller the most important character is the audience, which in our narcissistic times you'd think would count for so…
Broadway's talent universe will expand a little tomorrow and Monday at the Eugene O'Neill Theater.
With a mult-culti cast of nine young spoken-word artists, the night of poetry, stories and beats sounds like an authentic shout from the streets.
The holiday perennial is back at Radio City until Jan. 5, a 90-minute whirlwind of color and choreography.
Half a century ago, there were any number of playwrights who understood drawing rooms and what was funny about them.
Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons helped bring urban music and comedy to the masses, but when he tried to introduce another language of the streets - poetry - to Broadway, he was met with a deaf…
The hottest ticket on Broadway seems to be cooling off.
For the first time since it opened in April 2001, "The Producers" is running radio and print ads touting the availability of seats.
Scandalous in its time, Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" seems merely quaint and melodramatic now, even in the well-acted revival by the Classic Stage Company.
'Tuesdays With Morrie' makes it to Off-B'way
On the Internet this morning, I saw a story about a squirrel terrorizing a small town in England. Had the squirrel, I wondered, seen "Far Away"?
Hearing "Yentl" in Yiddish gives the play a special authenticity.
Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino has announced his second theater project of the fall, a staged reading of Oscar Wilde's "Salome."
Vinnette Carroll, the first African-American woman to direct a production on Broadway, "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope," has died at 80 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where she lived.
Adolph Green and Betty Comden's lyrics turned New York into a Never Never Land
There is a muted quality to the National Theater of Greece's production of Sophocles' "Antigone," which plays through tomorrow.
There is much sadness in "Hollywood Arms," the play Carol Burnett and her daughter wrote about Burnett's early life. But the saddest thing is that the play itself never comes into focus.
For the stage adaptation of "Debbie Does Dallas," creator Susan L. Schwartz and director Erica Schmidt have kept the bad dialogue, over-the-top characters and unlikely situations — and tra…
