Harvey Fierstein, author and star of La Cage aux Folles, will host the 2011 Drama Desk Awards, which will be presented on Monday, May 23, at a sit-down dinner at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Th…
The gentrification of his native Brooklyn provides a terrific focus for Danny Hoch's patented brand of multi-character, multi-ethnic solo theater in Taking Over. Helmed by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone, this intermissionless show is brash, richly characterful and frequently very funny until it comes unglued in a couple rambling final sequences. No doubt that slack should be pulled tight long before this piece begins a lengthy touring life.
Harvey Fierstein and John Bucchino's short-lived Broadway musical A Catered Affair plays Houston's Main Street Theater beginning Jan. 1, 2011, with an official opening scheduled for Jan. 6.
Friends, colleagues and fans will celebrate the life and work of the late composer Jerry Bock, whose Broadway scores include Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, She Loves Me and The Rothsch…
This fuchsia fluffsicle, socked over by choreographer-turned-director Jerry Mitchell, might not win over those opposed on principal to the Hollywoodization of Broadway. But its S.F. tryout i…
