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Jerry Herman's Mame has received new attention with the Kennedy Center's current staging starring Christine Baranski.
Jerry Herman's Mame has received new attention with the Kennedy Center's current staging starring Christine Baranski.
Milan Kundera's essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a "post-art" era.
Frost/Nixon playwright Peter Morgan has a thing for famous figures.
What's Edwin Drood creator Rupert Holmes working on this season? The real question is, what isn't he working on? He's currently occupied with a novel; a libretto to the new musical, Marty; a…
Public Theater artistic director continues his commitment to new plays by staging Rinne Groff's Compulsion, about a writer's obsession with Anne Frank.
Actor Sam Waterston reunites with play, theatre and daughter in the current Shakespeare in the Park rendition of Much Ado About Nothing.
Acclaimed British actress Joanna Lumley is making her Broadway debut in David Hirson's verse comedy La Bête. The "Ab Fab" star plays an imperious Princess who sets into motion a battle…
Acclaimed British actress Joanna Lumley is making her Broadway debut in David Hirson's verse comedy La Bête. The "Ab Fab" star plays an imperious Princess who sets into motion a battle…
Thanks to American producer Bob Boyett and Bill Haber, Royal National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner is quite used to taking an interest in the annual Tony Awards ceremony.
Director Leonard Foglia is as surprised as anyone that he's staging Ernest Thompson's popular family drama, On Golden Pond on Broadway.
It's been 17 years since Todd Haimes surprised all by being named the artistic director of The Roundabout Theatre Company.
Tony Award winner William Finn talks about the roots of Make Me a Song, the Off-Broadway revue of his work.
Rupert Holmes, the Tony Award-winning songwriter, librettist and orchestrator of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, is solving a new mystery this summer: the puzzle of putting together a new Broadw…
The 1980s reign again at the Public Theater with Radiant Baby, the new Off-Broadway musical about late pop artist Keith Haring.
Roundabout Theatre Company Todd Haimes, Artistic Director in association with David Pugh amp Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld is presenting Kneehigh Theatre's production of Nol Coward's Brief Enc…
Any theatregoer who's haunted the black boxes of Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway over the past three decades knows the work of actor Arthur French.
David Auburn's intimate four-character play, Proof, was such a huge hit you can only wonder what might become of his new one-actor play. Will a small package again spell grand success?
Director Jack O'Brien is back on Broadway with a new show, working with old pals — songwriter David Yazbek and choreographer Jerry Mitchell.