The best of 2012: Nightlife and culture by Metro New York

Best theater for the perfect downtown date-night combo of cheap drinks, quality shows and good seats: SoHo Playhouse. With uninhibited and gut-busting comedies like "Triassic Parq" and "5 Le…

Gas & Electric Arts’ provides snapshots from Lee Miller’s life and career by Shaun Brady

Gas & Electric Arts will bring Miller's amazing but tragically little-known story to the stage in "Behind the Eye," a Philadelphia premiere by playwright Carson Kreitzer. Director Lisa Jo Ep…

Parody: Sincerest form of flattery? by T. Michelle Murphy

In the year's slowest season for big new shows, smaller spoofs have found their time to shine this summer. Two send-ups of pop culture movies — "Jurassic Park" and "Silence of the Lambs" �…

Zeta-Jones' Night shines on Broadway, by Michael Bracken

The enchanting score of A Little Night Music, Stephen Sondheim's 1973 masterpiece now in revival at the Walter Kerr, is among Sondheim's most complex, including trios, canons, and duets, with counterpoint to spare. So when Catherine Zeta-Jones sings "Send In the Clowns," its simplicity takes your breath away.

'Rainbow' lights up B-way by ELIZABETH ZIMMER