CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK<br> How the Diva of Divas Did It By BEN BRANTLEY
Kathleen Turner's performance may be the most powerful of the Broadway season. So what went right wrong for Natasha Richardson and Jessica Lange?
Kathleen Turner's performance may be the most powerful of the Broadway season. So what went right wrong for Natasha Richardson and Jessica Lange?
London is flush with theatrical portraits of women who luxuriate in power, both from the distant past and of more recent vintage.
An epic about Russian writers who hear the call of history has stars answering art's appeal.
The top prize went to "Hunter Gatherers," a scathing look at contemporary American marriage by San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. He won the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Th…
Note should be taken when actors fail to show respect for the artistry that earned them their place in the sun.
At 59E59's three theaters, the Brits Off Broadway festival includes works from England, Scotland and Wales. Tickets are actually available.
The Wooster Group’s new production of Tennessee Williams’s 1977 play “Vieux Carré” draws from various influences, including Chinese opera, the films of Paul …
A new biography that draws on his private archives sheds even more light on the careful choreography of his life.
If Harold Pinter's plays are fraught with acting booby traps, they also contain immeasurable rewards for those able to negotiate the terrain.
As a woman who has succeeded in a man's world, Twyla Tharp maintains an unpredictable antiestablishment allure, even when her object is a Broadway audience.
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will appear in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Cla…
With revivals of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” and Chekhov’s “Seagull,” the Goodman Theater in Chicago has pessimism on its mind.
Two dating-theme shows, “Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage” and “Blind Date,” require participation by the willing and almost willing.
Old Songs Revisited by Voices of Today by STEPHEN HOLDEN
A flurry of recent standards albums by artists identified with rock and soul blurs the distinctions between music made before and after 1960.
I came to a shocking realization the other day: Apparently, I can't be shocked anymore.
Mountains of Mourning, Vistas of Better Days by BRUCE WEBER
Tina Howe's "Disorderly Conduct" provided a fitting conclusion to "Brave New World," the four programs offered at Town Hall to commemorate the anniversary of last year's terrorist attacks.
London Stage Enlists Old Rulers to Make Sport of the Current Crop by BEN BRANTLEY
In Britain, where plays are considered vital to the national dialogue, a mood of distrust of those who govern is reflected on the stage.
Da Vinci's original words are basis for a derivative night
For any fan who hasn't seen Wendy Wasserstein's work for television, her teleplays are well worth another look.
As shows by troupes like the Civilians inch closer to journalism, questions are raised about their responsibility to journalistic standards.