Mary Chase's Pulitzer-winning comedy, ''Harvey,'' ran for four years on Broadway before it hit the big screen, and it is being revived in a new production starring Dick Cavett and Charles Du…
This bland "country musical," in a twanged-up generic-contemporary-showtune mode by Tommy Newman and Mark Allen, may appeal to regional houses looking for new and unchallenging chamber-scale…
A question concerning the unusual interior design of Brooklyn's Harvey Theater.
It shouldn't all hold together. Yet somehow this frequently ingenious, hilarious contraption does.
Roger Rees' "What You Will," however, is a throwback to an older brand of solo evening -- the kind in which a thesp of note regales us with a hors d'ouevres tray of anecdotes, theatrical tri…
"Queen needs makeup!" Harvey Fierstein said. It was late afternoon on Monday, August 5, and Mr. Fierstein, primed to return to Broadway in heels upon a hot pink, giddy steamroller—the musical version of John Waters’ Hairspray—sat before a mirror in a windowless white studio in the West Village, his face under construction for yet another magazine photo shoot. Dressed in a flowered orange smock and sandals, his skin rosy and deprived of eyebrows, chest hair, armpit hair and leg hair, he resembled a pretty pot roast.
Thanks to davei2000 on TB for the link.
I've seen HAIRSPRAY twice and I LOVE this show. It's fun, makes you feel good, and puts a smile on your face all night long. Mailing the CD sampler out earlier this summer was a great idea. It worked for me, I listened to it way before seeing the show and liked the songs immediately. Since I happen to be the one who orders group tickets for my real job, it also worked, I ordered them and after seeing the show called back and ordered even more.
Every week these beaux of Broadway deal and dish for high stakes
The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards announced a series of major changes designed to enhance the visibility and outreach of the Drama Desk Awards nationwide while, at the same time, creating a …
Cate Blanchett lays bare the pathos of Blanche DuBois in an erratic revival of the Tennesee Williams classic.
On Tuesday, February 15, four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein and six-time Emmy Award nominee Jeffrey Tambor will join the company of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES on Broadway as Albin and Geor…
The op-ed article that started it all.