Harvey Evans, an actor, singer and dancer who had a knack for landing roles in the original Broadway productions of such classics as "West Side Story," "Follies" "Hello, Dolly!" and "Gypsy,"…
Noah Charney's premise is fairly uncontroversial: He argues that our understanding of art history is skewed by survivorship bias and that to understand the art we still have, it's critica…
Billionaire Steve Cohen is donating Chris Ofili's The Holy Virgin Mary to New York's Museum of Modern Art. "The canvas stirred controversy at the Brooklyn Museum during the 1999 'Sensation' …
"Such groups are expanding their structures and missions, but for the successful artists who built them decades ago, doing so means making major changes to the way they've always operated. F…
"Gurr Johns, which buys and sells on behalf of clients, won four pieces by the Spanish artist, totaling £73.8 million ($102.4 million) at Sotheby's on Wednesday, according to the auction …
Even though the show hardly needs to market itself at this point, the promotional logo for the theatrical sensation Hamilton has become a coveted pop culture symbol by itself. A simple trunc…
It is not often that we get a truly amoral play: clever, funny, evil, totally misanthropic. But that describes Paul Weitz's unexpected Trust.
Jonathan Tolins's Secrets of the Trade may be a trifle predictable for the cognoscenti, but it is literate, polished and witty.
It is lucky enough when a replacement cast can match the original one; it is more than serendipitous when the newcomers surpass their predecessors.
As a New Hampshire boarding- schoolboy, A.R. Gurney (Pete to his friends) traveled to Manhattan on a weekend to catch fellow Bufallonian Katharine Cornell as Shakespeare's Cleopatra on Broadway. In the green room after the show, he managed with minor difficulty to get her to sign his program. Is there a play in such a minor encounter? On the evidence of The Grand Manner, at New York's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, no.
Ted Shen, a New York investment banker turned Medici of experimental musicals, took a midday Delta Air Lines shuttle last week to Washington for the opening of "Sycamore Trees" at the Signat…
The elevator opens on Daryl Roth's Park Avenue apartment to the barking of what sound like hungry German shepherds.
Give actresses as fine as Edie Falco and Alison Pill a halfway decent play like This Wide Night, and you've got yourself an evening of theater. And Claudia Shear, who as author and female lead has foisted her dual presence on us in a number of exhibitionist plays, does so most uninhibitedly in Restoration at the New York Theatre Workshop.
It makes shows like "Next to Normal" seem wholly normal. And it gives the great, underrated Laila Robins a chance at a capital performance.
I called the show's lead producer, Jeffrey Richards, whom I've known since his first Broadway flop, "Rex," in 1976. For someone lighter by almost $4 million, he was pretty chipper.