Shuberts Rename Plymouth & Royale Theatres

The Shubert Organization is renaming two of its theaters after Shubert executives. The Plymouth Theatre will become the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and the Royale Theatre will become the Bern…

Shuberts to Re-name Plymouth and Royale Theaters for Schoenfeld and Jacobs

Shuberts to Rename Plymouth and Royale Theatres

A Night in the Life

Brenda Blethyn and Edie Falco star in 'night, Mother, Marsha Norman’s compassionate portrait of a complex mother/daughter relationship

Video: Hair Benefit Concert

Video: Brooklyn Sneak Peek

Video: Dracula Takes a Bite of B'way

Take Me Out and Monster

Los Angeles Reviews by Sharon Perlmutter

Dylan Moran to Return to the West End

Leads Set for Upcoming White Christmas Stage Musical in San Francisco

Christian Slater to Join Cuckoo’s Cast Members For Late-Night Comedy

Will Eno's Flu Season Wins 2004 George Oppenheimer Award

"Sopranos" Star Produces Off-Broadway Premiere of Ponies

Lenox Joins Shanley's Doubt, About Questions in a Catholic School, Starting Nov. 4

Crescent Theatre Company Risks Absurdity at Cherry Lane Oct. 7

Brian Murray, Jeremy Shamos, Jim True-Frost Join Cast of Rivals

New York Times Eliminates Sunday Theatre Listings

Vocal Coach Linklater and Soap Star Tom Reign in Greek Drama Hecuba, Oct. 7-30

Woman in White Cast Recording Due in November

Recent Aida Star to Be Part of Reading of New Musical Piece

Sheldon Harnick to Receive Award at Annual Town Hall Gala

Porter and de Haas Part of All-Star Pippin Concert

David Hare's Stuff Happens Joins "Red, White & New" Readings Lineup

Callaway, Crosby, McCartney, and Walsh are Women on Stage for Songbook Project Benefit

London's Bridewell Theatre Loses Home

Kathie Lee Gifford's Bridge Heads Off-Broadway

MARTIN CHARNIN: THEATER IS ONE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN HONOR THE PAST... AND HE’S BRINGING BACK THE MUSICAL REVUE

by ELLIS NASSOUR
Long before he became famous for directing and lyric writing –and for Annie – Martin Charnin was quite gifted writing songs for revues. At Sam’s Dream Street Cabaret [263 West 45th Street], with an official opening on October 6th, he’s celebrating that lost art form with The Next-To-The-Last Revue.

Inside Move: Off Off B'way Guide gone by Robert Hofler, Variety

The redesign of the Arts & Leisure section at the Sunday New York Times won no raves from Off Off Broadway.

THEATER REVIEW | 'OPENING DOORS'

They're Putting It Together, Accentuating the Positive By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
The wonderful world of Stephen Sondheim glows brightly in "Opening Doors," a new revue of favorites and rarities from the songbook of the Broadway composer and lyricist.

Stephen Sondheim: Opening Doors

Review by David Rooney, Variety
It distills some 40-odd songs from one of the most significant, boldly experimental voices in the American musical into an exceedingly bland dose of dinner theater -- without cocktails.

Revealing Sondheim's best-kept secrets BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

'Doors' lets in a fresh review of Sondheim by Howard Kissel

White Chocolate: Race and Identity Thrown into a Farcical House of Mirrors

Review by Andy Propst

A case of overnight soul BY BLAKE GREEN

New Yorker cartoonist turns his upper-crust roots upside down in a new play

White Chocolate

Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

White Chocolate

Review by Matthew Murray

White Chocolate

Review by Edward Karam

White Chocolate

White Chocolate

Review by David Rooney, Variety

THEATER REVIEW | 'OTHELLO'

Warriors and Women, Trapped on the Iago Carousel By BEN BRANTLEY
No one's life is his own in Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod's dynamic staging of "Othello" at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

A misfit 'Finishing' By Michael Phillips

Arthur Miller's Goodman premiere has 3 story lines; 1 works

Painting yet another 'Picture' of Marilyn BY LINDA WINER

"Finishing the Picture" is far more likable than Miller's other Marilyn play, "After the Fall," which recently finished a disappointing revival at the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Good 'Sex' By Tiffany Maleshefski

Movie-turned-musical proves sharp, funny.
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Plan B

Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

LITTLE 'RICHARD' ACTOR CASTS A GIANT SHADOW By BARBARA HOFFMAN

SHORT, dark and handsome, Peter Dinklage strides across the Public Theater's stage like a 4-foot-5 colossus.

Broadway ticket: Billerica native Barri McPherson scores with new musical 'Brooklyn' By Terry Byrne

Anti-war comedy is Greek to them By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ

The National Theater of Greece has broken a tragic habit.

Brando a Loner? Family and Friends Take Issue. By NICK MADIGAN

Three months after Marlon Brando died at age 80, some of the people closest to the actor have begun to speak publicly about his life.

Photo Op: PS Label Ladies in Lincoln Square

Photo Op: Hairspray Welcomes New Stars

PHOTO CALL: Laura Bell Bundy Gets Shameless! at Joe's Pub

'Hairspray' loses its luster for Canadians by Richard Ouzounian, Variety

With mainstream hits like "The Producers" and "Hairspray" failing to run even a year in Toronto, the city's rep as a legit-friendly town is inevitably compromised.

Hairspray loses its hold on T.O. by ROBERT CREW

Second Mirvish show to flop this year

Thesps 'Bewitched' by TV adaptation by Army Archerd, Variety

Val Kilmer on the changes in "The Ten Commandments" (third item).

'Letters to God' multiplying

Korean, Hebrew, Spanish productions underway

Reading of 'Aria Da Capo' to raise funds for home

Aims to recreate era of Greenwich Village speakeasies

LIZ SMITH

Liz McCartney.

Center stage BY PETER FILICHIA

Power play

North Shore project clarified By Louise Kennedy

Officials of the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly are meeting today with the nonprofit organization's board of trustees to discuss the final draft of a long-range business plan that coul…

Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 7

New Book "On Broadway, Men Still Wear Hats" to Get Oct. 7 Reading at Brooklyn's Book Court

South African Troupe Dimpho Di Kopane Reinvents Carmen, The Beggar's Opera and Hans Christian Andersen in NYC

Theatre Pals Take Ailing Friend to Holy Waters in Lavery's Last Easter, Opening Off-Broadway Oct. 7

"Working in the Theatre" Season Begins Oct. 7 with Albee, Fierstein, Vogel and Weidman

Headliners Bush, Stewart, Jackson and More Skewered in Newsical Opens Oct. 7

Two Brothers Who Are Not Brothers Bond in New Play, Beginning Oct. 7 in NYC

Under the Bridge, a New Musical by Kathie Lee Gifford and David Pomeranz, Expected Off-Bway in December

Special Import 3214

Suddenly, "The American Airlines Theatre" doesn't sound so bad...