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David Henry Hwang rewrites 'Flower Drum Song' in new image
Israel Horovitz's captivating new play, "My Old Lady," is based on a curious French law.
Despite stock characters, archaic slang and smart-alecky humor better suited to Jazz Age sensibilities, the sell-by date has yet to expire on "The Butter and Egg Man," George S. Kaufman's 19…
Keith Bunin's "The World Over" could not be more of a contrast to last year's "The Credeaux Canvas," his play about the ethical dilemmas of being an artist.
Taking potshots at television for being a creative wasteland can make for all too easy, and hardly original, satire. Yet "Evolution," a fast-paced, sharply written morality tale by Jonathan …
In this lively, funny and upbeat musical biography featuring more than a dozen songs Jolson made famous, Stephen Mo Hanan does a dead-on impersonation of the groundbreaking singer's over-emo…
"Murderous Instincts" may be one of the strangest out-of-town tryouts in Broadway history.
It has been 14 years since Michael Crawford first donned the mask that turned him into the Phantom of the Opera. Now he's ready for another disguise, as a bloodsucker in the new musical come…
A pair of hot Hollywood actors known for edgy film performances makes for a combustible combination in a riveting and often hilarious revival of "Burn This."
Originally staged in the early 1930s, Gertrude Tonkonogy's "Three-Cornered Moon" was hardly the prototypical Depression-era screwball comedy to take America's collective mind off its problem…
When you saw the 1995 film "Dead Man Walking," about a nun taking up the cause of a wildly unsympathetic murderer on Death Row, did you ask yourself why it had not yet been turned into an opera?
Probably not.
"The Twilight Zone" meets "Yo! MTV Raps" in "Faster," a heavy-handed, hip-hop-tinged drama about the abduction and pending sale of a little girl.
WNET/Ch. 13's "Stage on Screen" series tomorrow night at 10 celebrates Samuel Beckett with seven short works - presided over by Jeremy Irons - from the "Beckett on Film Project."
Quite by chance Wednesday morning, I came into the Engelhardt Court of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while actors Christopher Cartmill and Michelle Hurst were reading poetry as part of the …
From a social standpoint, the dozens of actors who volunteered their services for "Brave New World: American Theater Responds to 9/11" should be commended for their selfless spirit.
Finding humor in Sept. 11 would seem inappropriate just a year later, especially with the memorials going on this week.
But at the second installment of "Brave New World: American Theatre Responds to 9/11," the three-day benefit commemorating the anniversary of the attacks, the laughter that accompanied the handful of witty plays interspersed among the serious pieces, somber songs and melancholy poems seemed to be cathartic for Tuesday night's audience at Town Hall.
On Sept. 13, 2001, Broadway united in a show of resilience by taking to the stage in the aftermath of catastrophe.
Yesterday, the theatrical community found many ways to mark the anniversary.
Though the nine playwrights range in age from just 11 to 17, actors Kate Burton, David Straitharn, Lois Smith and others are taking time to give staged readings of their new works in a benef…
When I arranged a ticket for the first part of "Brave New World: American Theater Responds to 9/11," I agreed that an evening in which actors and writers had donated their talents should not…
After a 37-year acting career, two-time Academy Award-winning actress Sally Field will make her Broadway debut on Thursday when she takes over the role of the crockery-smashing wife in "The …
It's an important week Off-Broadway, despite some closed theaters Wednesday
Three-day marathon offers multiple visions of Sept. 11
