The New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
A few weeks ago, Playbill reader Molly Prep sent us a few photos showcasing her “Broadway themed” dorm room and home bedroom. Molly’s designs had us wondering i…
No one said or did anything excessively moving or embarrassing, if you don't count the person who picked the lavender shorts suit Alan Cumming wore in the show's opening.
This Tony nominee for best play stitches together comedy and horror with the help of Tyrone, the hand puppet that acts as the main character's angry id.
The Greeks Conquer the London Stage With War and Sacrifice, but No Heroes By BEN BRANTLEY
In London, where theater often has a fraternal closeness to the morning's headlines rarely known across the Atlantic, the ancient Greeks are hot this summer.
Garland and Burton Live, Warts and All by ANITA GATES
Both Judy Garland and Richard Burton are subjects of two shows this summer, portrayed as celebrity-artists annoyed by what the world thinks of them.
Recasting a Star Role Is Hit (or Miss) by BEN BRANTLEY
If the chemistry of casting, particularly where Broadway shows are concerned, is an elusive and mysterious science, the alchemy of recasting is even more complicated.
Theater's Promise? Look Off Broadway by BRUCE WEBER
It may have been a financially calamitous year Off Broadway, but invention thrived.
Plus a related sidebar article (see the Reviews section below).
The character of Alma Winemiller has resurfaced with a new authoritative calm in the Hartford Stage's gentle, insightful revival of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke."
Great Minds Talk Volumes as Mortality Intervenes by BEN BRANTLEY
"The Coast of Utopia," Tom Stoppard's engrossing and exasperating trilogy of plays, takes the love of a good argument to extremes unknown in the theater since the heyday of George Bernard Shaw.
There is usually some reason for splitting a role among multiple actors, but the Broadway musical "Lennon" highlights why the approach is so rare: it hardly ever works.
A Rhythmic Soundscape of Lives Caught in Conflict By MARGO JEFFERSON
The hip-hop artist and actor Yuri Lane takes the art of soundscape a step further in "From Tel Aviv to Ramallah."
Plus Nicky Paraiso's "House/Boy."
