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Watching plays this week can help break the tension we live with
Word on a free performance of the play "The Guys" and news about Hilary Swank and husband Chad Lowe.
Mike Piazza won't need to hold another press conference, this time to deny he's the inspiration for the gay- ballplayer character in "Take Me Out."
'Flower Drum Song" is about to bloom again.
Now appearing Off-Broadway: Broadway prices.
At a distance of 60 years, all the Rodgers and Hart musicals seem innocent and carefree, but none has retained its youthfulness better than "Babes in Arms," the 1937 show about kids turning …
Novelist Edith Wharton's dream home in the Berkshires has been restored to its former glory
'Rappaport' lives; Stage gets 'Tune' up
Tales of a gay baseball player and oversexed pro-football cheerleaders, new dramas from David Mamet and Neil LaBute, classic works by Lanford Wilson and George S. Kaufman, plus rare stage appearances by Richard Dreyfuss, Sigourney Weaver and Edward Norton — are among the highlights of the upcoming Off-Broadway season.
Love may not be sweeping the country, but it's a hot item on Broadway this fall.
The anguish of a renowned Cuban poet who became a government pariah fuels "Dismiss All the Poets," a flawed drama by Cuban-American playwright Adrian Rodriguez that nevertheless explores pow…
The showdown between Broadway and the National Football League over a Sept. 5 pop concert in Times Square has ended in a tie. The concert, a National Football League promotion backed by Mayo…
For anyone who ever stayed up late wondering how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck managed to become box-office stars almost overnight - not to mention Oscar-winning screenwriters - the answer just…
Season of Savings theater discount program gets another run, 'Rappaport' won't close, for now, and Debbie does Off-Broadway.
"Starf*****s" boasts the most outrageous title of the nearly 200 offerings at this year's New York International Fringe Festival, but no outrage is needed to sell this consistently funny one…
When Mets catcher Mike Piazza held a press conference in May to tell the world he was - and is - straight, playwright Richard Greenberg had the strange sense that reality was catching up wit…
I have four recordings of Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys From Syracuse," one of which (along with Herbert von Karajan's recording of Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte") has always been on my list of de…
All you can ask of a work of art is that it help you see the world more profoundly when you leave the theater than you did when you came in. That's what "Hairspray" does.
The songs of "Hairspray" have hold! This show's tunes and lyrics deserve to live as long in the annals of Broadway rock scores as the music from "Grease" or "Bye Bye Birdie."
In "The Way Out," a compelling two-person piece based on the still controversial Rubin (Hurricane) Carter case, Shiek Mahmud-Bey's fierce performance as the former boxer convicted of a tripl…
It was practically a scandal in the world of indie filmmaking when John Waters' "Hairspray" received a family-friendly PG rating. Tonight, "Hairspray" opens as a Broadway musical extravaganz…
Much a-do about 'Hairspray' star
Kerry Butler doesn't have the splashiest role or the showiest 'do in "Hairspray" - the Broadway-musical adaptation of the John Waters film - but she gets the loudest cheers.
Willis rounds up OK production
