The decision to embrace motherhood. The challenges of cross-cultural adoption. The poor medical conditions in Africa that have led to millions dying of AIDS. Tanya Barfield is to be commende…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMHow do you solve a problem like Matilda? Given that Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel has been beloved for years by girls who identify with the title character — unloved by her parents an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMAll of us wear masks of some kind, visible or not, but more people in society are literally donning disguises in an effort to help society and fight crime. This unusual phenomenon gave rise …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:09AMThere may be awesomely flexible drag queens, six-inch stiletto heels, and even a hairy man in a t-shirt, but there is absolutely nothing in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots that will sto…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:07PMIn a theatrical season full of boldfaced names taking center stage — Ann Richards, Mike McAlary, Sue Mengers, the Virgin Mary — perhaps it's not altogether surprising to find ourselves i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMTom Hanks is one smart guy. Having learned the hard lesson that movie stars should be careful in picking the parts in which they make their Broadway debuts (perhaps he had a heart-to-heart w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMCynical audience members can be forgiven for wondering if the new Broadway musical Hands on a Hardbody will be, much like its subject matter, an endurance test. After all, just how interesti…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 11:56PMWatch out, Spidey, there's another superhero in town, and this one doesn't need wires to soar. Yep, the guy in the form-fitting tights with the big "S" on the front of his red cape has land…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00AMShe was a "spectral presence," the nameless narrator played Cory Michael Smith (The Whale) says in describing Holly Golightly within the opening moments of Breakfast at Tiffany's, but there'…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMCirque du Soleil has pitched its Grand Chapiteau in New York again – this time at Queens’ Citi Field – and the result is...
SOURCE: cititour.com at 05:39PMLike the Illinois archaeological site that is the subject of The Mound Builders, Lanford Wilson's 1975 play now being presented by Signature Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center, …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:05PM"I am a wild turkey," says Kristine Nielsen's Sonia with wretched despair, but you can't immediately tell who gets the Chekhovian in-joke in Christopher Durang's wonderful new comedy, Vanya …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIt's a comment on the reality of 21st century theater that Ketti Frings' Look Homeward, Angel, her Pulitzer Prize-winning 1957 stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's beloved autobiographical nov…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:35PMFull casting has been announced for Joe Gilford's Finks, a fictionalized account of the life of his parents, actors Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford, which will begin performances March…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:38PMBaltimore's CENTERSTAGE has announced the selections for its 2013-2014 season. The theater will present Henry Wishcamper's adaptation of the Marx Brothers' classic musical comedy, Animal Cr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:25PMDrama Desk Award nominee Cheyenne Jackson has replaced Sean Hayes in the feature film version of Richard Alfieri's Broadway play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. In the film, to be directed …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:44AMCabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AMCabaret shows with a theme, from "The Songs of Jule Styne" to "The Great Ladies of the Silver Screen," are the staples of many of an uptown venue. But leave it to the always original, always…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:12AM“Make ‘em laugh, Make ‘em laugh, don’t you know everyone wants to laugh?” sang Donald O’Connor over 60 years ago in Singin’ in the Rain. Well, few people on the planet know how…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:06PMEven if Marilyn Maye didn’t ask the audience to shout a hearty “Hallelujah” during her rendition of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler’s joyous “Get Happy,” part of her extraordinary n…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 07:05PMAnn Richards may have died in 2006, but the indomitable, inspirational spirit of this remarkable woman, is alive and well and living on the stage of Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theate…
SOURCE: cititour.com at 10:15PMJust as books should not be judged by their covers, stage productions are not always reflections of their set design. Take Jeff Cowie's almost-too-grand recreation of the rococo Victorian bo…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMSee Maria, a 78-year-old Polish woman, grimace as she tries tofu for the first time. Sit back as she convinces longtime friend Zenon that "asshole" is really the English word for computer, o…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:15PMTo quote from its opening song, "Happiness:" Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Passion is anything but "just another love story." Instead, this musical masterpiece is a haunting exploratio…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:05PMFrom the first notes of the "Carousel Waltz," played with consummate skill by the New York Philharmonic, to the final notes of the heart-rendering "You'll Never Walk Alone," the Philharmonic…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:20PMEdie Falco has a rare gift an actress: to make female characters whose actions are often questionable, if not downright abhorrent, nonetheless seem vulnerable and sympathetic. That singular …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe joy of a perfectly calibrated production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing is in watching warring wits Benedick and Beatrice slowly yet surely drop their proverbial armor a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe residents of Inishfree, Ireland in 1951 are certainly a curious bunch. A woman doesn't consider herself truly married until she has her dowry in hand; old ladies drink whiskey like it's …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMCabaret is not an iPod with a shuffle switch, so take note before heading to former Broadway Jersey Boys star John Lloyd Young's new show, My Turn, now at the Café Carlyle—this 80-minute …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:25PMComic timing – the perhaps innate ability to have a word or physical gesture elicit an even greater laugh than might be expected – is a particularly valuable resource to possess in the t…
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