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If you know Geoffrey Holder from TV commercials, he's "the un-Cola man."
If you know him from the theater, he's the man who broke new ground in 1974 as director-choreographer of "The Wiz," the first Broadway musical that found an African-American audience.
Plus, Rod Stewart in shock bid for respectability
Why films and plays continually return to a Viennese author's sexy moral tales
No matter what you think of Billy Joel's voice - and the man himself has said he doesn't think much of it - at least it has a certain pugnacious character. That's just one of the many things…
Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: The dancing in "Movin' Out" is spectacular.
"A lot of great moments in American music," Billy Joel muses, "have come when someone smooshed together a couple of things that no one thought of putting together before."
In "Yellowman," Dael Orlandersmith's lyrical and beautifully acted drama set mostly in the South, Alma and Eugene are childhood sweethearts whose lifelong love affair will be tragically affe…
Yesterday in the subway, I ran into two friends who said they'd had one of the worst theatrical experiences of their lives the night before. It turned out to be the very concert I had found …
My hunch is that if you wake Jackie Mason in the middle of the night, he talks quite normally. I wouldn't even be surprised to learn the name on his passport is Reginald Smythe.
Works about singing, dancing, catfighting drag queens have become so common that it's hard to find something new in the genre. "Blessing in Disguise" only goes to show that if you've seen on…
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TORONTO — Former Broadway theater producers Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb were each charged Tuesday with 19 counts of fraud for allegedly doctoring financial statements of Livent Inc., which filed for bankruptcy.
Al Pacino has a thing about thugs.
If you want to understand why the world market for whimsy is fairly low, "Amour" makes a good case.
The current revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1958 "Flower Drum Song" is a spicier but ultimately coarser treatment of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, circa 1960.
Keeping a tight lid on the love that dare not speak its name has dire consequences for the Navy flyboys in "Burning Blue," a well-acted and initially gripping military drama that unfortunate…
In 1958, "Flower Drum Song" fired the first shot in the battle to give Asians better representation on Broadway. As unlikely a source of revolutionary theater as it was the play is again lea…
A joyous, humorous and entirely engaging "alterna-musical," "BETTY Rules" chronicles the often-rocky history of the all-girl trio. Deftly directed by Michael Greif ("Rent"), the fast-paced s…
Chekhov's plays strike a fresh chord in the West End
A work that examines the flaws in the criminal justice system through the true-life stories of former Death Row inmates, "The Exonerated" is really a political statement disguised as a stage…
"Man" has many virtues, but it neither crystallizes nor transforms the material.
"Gracie" does not really aim to dramatize anything about Burns and Allen's lives or career. It is merely an amiable journey into the past. If your own memories are as vivid as mine, you'll f…
While recounting seminal moments from her stage career in the autobiographical play "In Real Life," Charlayne Woodard proves to be such a polished, affable and engaging storyteller that it's…
In Sally Field and Bill Irwin, "The Goat" is lucky to have two actors whose very stage presence gives it great credibility.
