Warring Puppets Are Human, but Punches Continue to Roll By JASON ZINOMAN
Punch and Judy have been beating each other senseless for centuries as puppets, but two real-life actors do the quarreling in this rigorously performed modern update.
Julie Taymor's $65 million musical "has been lampooned on every major late-night comedy show and by The Onion, which portrayed the producers as still being optimistic about the show despite …
It's nice that the Theaters at 45 Bleecker Street are offering a "Recession Special Double Bill" of two one-act plays for the price of one with their pairing of Fringe Festival favorite Sailor Man with the new Rumspringa. But cash-starved theatergoers could really save some money by skipping this wildly disjointed double-bill altogether.
Warren Leight, when he was an executive producer on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” once wrote an episode about a murder that took place in the world of boxing.
August Wilson was the great chronicler of black America. The New Yorker's John Lahr remembers the school drop-out who wrote standing up - with a punchbag at his side
In "The Scene," at Hartford Stage, Theresa Rebeck demonstrates, painfully and hilariously, that you can get both drama and comedy from the unlatching of a single door.