The Met's collaborative program with the Lincoln Center Theater will keep questions about the nature of contemporary musical drama before the public for years to come.
Blackface Master Echoes in Hip-Hop By MARGO JEFFERSON
A record company has recently released the recordings of black vaudevillian Bert Williams, an early master of speech-song and vanguard of hip-hop.
Looking back at the career of Jerome Robbins.
Your song suggestions are welcome.
'Rabbit Hole' is a fine Pulitzer choice, but up-and-coming, daring writers need support.
Feeling a touch more provincial lately? You should. With the cancellation of UCLA Live's International Theatre Festival, Los Angeles' status as a cultural world capital has suffered a seriou…
Lee Papa, a blogger, shows his face in "The Rude Pundit in the Year of Living Rudely," a one-man show at the New York International Fringe Festival.
It would be hard for any actress to top the layers of self-contempt and self-knowledge in Margaret Colin's fine performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival's revival of "Sweet Bird of Y…
Quiet! by Lewis Segal
Pop music, Broadway and even opera have succumbed to over-amplification. Listeners are fleeing into the night.
Pick your examples shrewdly enough and it can seem as if all of culture, high and low, is awash in colorblind casting.
Four students' lives are forever altered by an influential English teacher in Wendy Kesselman's play, which is directed by Evan Yionoulis.
Elaine Stritch's sound may be raw and patchy, her pitch may be approximate, but her cabaret show is a vivid reminder that, in essence, song is musicalized speech.
Some successful Off Broadway shows just can’t make it on Broadway.
India Resounding in New York By JON PARELES
A new generation of South Asians and Asian-Americans is bringing its hybrid culture to New York's clubs, music halls, and to Broadway.
Pain Peeks Through Frenzied High Jinks by BEN BRANTLEY
The National Theater in London's revival of Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers" is a luscious farce about marriage and murder, with quips and pranks in place.
"Doubt" and "The Pillowman" are causing the kind of excitement among audiences that is usually reserved for overproduced and overhyped musicals.
"Love," Cirque du Soleil's new Beatles show at the Mirage Hotel, says many things about the continuing transformation of the Cirque du Soleil format.
With Jaundiced Eyes and Barbed Tongues By JASON ZINOMAN
"Homeland Insecurity," a pleasurable solo show, and a musical satire, "Dubya and the Gang of Seven," both offer unconvincing political critique.
Does the artfully Green Day jukebox musical on Broadway, represent the dawning of a new age or the end of a line?
Awards should be aspirational, validating excellence and originality even though each and every one of us knows that commercialism rules the day. But far be it from the ever-insecure Tonys&m…
Faith, Hope and Guilt on Fringe of the Fringe by BRUCE WEBER
Beyond the camp and irreverent performances at the Fringe Festival, on through Sunday, are the less promoted, less unconventional but more worthwhile offerings.
Cloning, once just a cheap device in thrillers, has become the controlling metaphor in works by serious artists.
Los Angeles is rich with A-list actors, but the New York stage still calls. It's time to make a play for them here.
The film, an "American Masters" episode directed by Ric Burns, features interviews with critics, dancers and directors.