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Extracurricular schoolwork has paid off for a group of drama students at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The students teamed to create an emotionally charged play based on their Sept. 11 exp…
Intense actor takes a low-key turn as CIA agent in Clancy thriller
Madonna-mania hit the West End last night as the pop superstar opened in the play "Up for Grabs" — her first stage appearance in 14 years.
Sophie Tucker's life might make a wonderful musical. "Red Hot Mama" isn't it.
Her Niceness gives up talk throne with grace
Once upon a time, the phrase "There'll always be an England" implied something solid and unshakable. For a long time, of course, it has been uttered only ironically.
Strong performances and a sly sense of humor buoy "Smelling a Rat," a bizarre British farce that ultimately doesn't amount to a hill of rat-poison pellets.
Keeping in shape physically is a good thing, but Barrie Ingham conducts calisthenics for those exercising their jaws — and their brains — reciting Shakespeare.
For Best Play By PATRICIA O'HAIRE
Edward Albee's drama "The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?" and Mary Zimmerman's "Metamorphoses" tied for Outstanding Play at the Drama Desk Awards, handed out last night in the auditorium of LaGuardia High School in Manhattan.
Lately, the group extended its language to the world of musical theater.
A class for speaking — and understanding — Shakespeare
While it isn't necessary to know playwright Christopher Gorman's backstory to appreciate his autobiographical drama, "A Letter From Ethel Kennedy," it certainly doesn't hurt.
Like his earlier novel "The Prince and the Pauper," Mark Twain's thorny later work "Pudd'nhead Wilson" examines how our identity is shaped by the way we are treated.
A frenetic, unfunny and repetitive comedy based on the tumultuous last days of Ulysses S. Grant, John Guare's "A Few Stout Individuals" is like the disastrous Civil War battle that haunts its main character.
An essay in the program for Noel Coward's "Long Island Sound" explains how in 1937 Coward was shanghaied for what was billed as a "quiet" weekend on Long Island.
It took all of 10 years for Odysseus to make it home after the Trojan War. Derek Walcott's uneven adaptation of "The Odyssey" feels longer.
Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for only a year and a half, but it was long enough to fuel "21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com," a raucous and consistently funny one-man show.
"Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)" brought to mind an old, well-known illustration of Sigmund Freud.
Apparently we didn't need to fight a Civil War.
