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As political issues go, regicide is not very hot these days. When Friedrich von Schiller wrote "Maria Stuart" in 1800, however, less than a decade had passed since the French, who still may …
The first "Broadway Under the Stars" concert Monday turned Bryant Park into a mini-Woodstock without the mud. More than 10,000 people of all ages jammed into the park, covering the grass with blankets, sheets and curtains, suggesting an audience for more of these Monday concerts.
If you expect to see any of that grass you better show up more than an hour beforehand. Next time I will know better. I was impressed with the number of people standing on the sides, underneath the trees. There had to be thousands over there, they couldn't possibly see and I wonder how much they heard. They stayed for the entire program though.
To end its "Broadway by the Year" season, Town Hall presented songs Monday from musicals that opened in the spectacular 1964. In addition to "Hello, Dolly!", "Funny Girl" and "Fiddler on the…
Critics pan London hit, but like 'Mamma,' it may find fans here
Songwriters Hall of Fame deserves a home in this city
During the curtain calls after the thrilling concert performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" at Carnegie Hall Thursday night, Hugh Jackman, whose New York stage debut the concert…
What ever happened to interpretive singing?
I'm listening to her new CD at this very moment. You should be too.
Playwright Oscar A. Colón looks to Spanish writer Federico GarcÃa Lorca for inspiration with "Becoming Bernarda," a well-acted, tightly staged drama that imagines the origins of one of Lor…
Halfway through the first act at a recent performance of "House," stage manager James Fitzsimmons gets the message he doesn't want to hear.
"Uh-oh," says Fitzsimmons, frowning at the words crackling over his headset. "Either they're going too fast, or we're going slow."
Madonna fans watch her stabs at acting the way a mother surveys her child's first moves on the playing field: She just hopes the kid makes it through without too much shame or bloodshed.
At the end of the Tony Awards Sunday night, Michael David, a founding partner of Dodger Theatricals, one of the prime producing teams on Broadway, noted that despite the opinions of cynics â…
This week, Variety reported that for the first time in a decade, Broadway grosses did not top those of the season before. Given the Sept. 11 tragedy and its economic consequences, it's mirac…
There's a bleak future awaiting humanity in "This Thing of Darkness," and it's not only because one of New York's beloved baseball teams will someday leave the city.
Such a morally and socially complicated issue as gay parenthood certainly seems a timely and worthy subject for a play.
