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Festival where 'Urinetown' got its start is bigger & more offbeat than ever
Before air conditioning, Broadway used to shut down for the summer, and its stars went off to do summer stock. Now it's the reverse - movie and TV stars forgo summer by their pools to do limited runs on Broadway.
Fifteen Broadway shows will be dark on Sept. 11, when the city commemorates the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
When Jennifer Ehle won a Tony Award in 2000 for her work in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," she got a congratulatory telegram from Prime Minister Tony Blair. It was a nice thought, only Ehl…
Like a merely average student trying desperately to impress the teacher, "Midwestern Chum" strains to be a madcap, raucously funny audience-pleaser about backroom skulduggery at a big-city school board. While it doesn't quite make it as zany farce or biting satire, it isn't a total flunk-out, either.
Part documentary, part spectacle, George C. Wolfe's "Harlem Song" is an ambitious attempt to create a live entertainment that conveys the rich legacy of Harlem over the last 80 years.
With four new shows, it's unseasonably busy
Stereotypical characters end up doing atypical things in "Spanish Girl," a charming, if slight, comedy on the shallowness of youth.
In the Worth Street Theater Company's lively update of "As You Like It," Shakespeare's benign social comedy is transported from its 16th-century pastoral origins to a contemporary urban sett…
Hirsch, Vereen show the '85 play has aged beautifully
Hot talent plays lovestruck cook on B'way even as he sizzles in 'Perdition'
In 1973, Ely Landau, who had pioneered bringing noteworthy theater productions to television during the '50s, attempted to do something similar with film. He instituted the American Film The…
With new musical 'Hairspray,' 'Prince of Puke' lands on B'way
Well-known actors have taken active roles in running their own companies, including...
The star wattage on the London stage is set to grow even brighter this fall, with Glenn Close, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench all appearing in West End plays.
In Brian Kulick's production, at the Delacorte through Aug. 11, there is plenty of rambunctiousness, but not much tension or poetry.
Getting a play on the boards is a little like bricklaying.
"The Ta'ziyeh of Imam Hussein," describes the murder of the prophet Muhammad's grandson, the event at the heart of the Shi'ite sect of Islam.
The new cast, headed by Anne Heche, makes "Proof" seem a much stronger play than it did when I first saw it two years ago.
A spirited cast highlights a frenzied, madcap and highly energized production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," but unfortunately, it runs out of steam by the final curtain.
A shipwreck has brought Jimmy Smits back to New York City.
Review: "Sarah, Plain and Tall."
"Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames," a bizarre, ultimately pointless social satire by cult writer Denis Johnson, is just the latest work to focus on dysfunctional types with the…
