'Wicked' dominates Tonys with 10 nominations by Gordon Cox

Measuring the Bard, the way the Brits do BY ROB KENDT

The offal truth BY GORDON COX

'Rose Rage' is the Bard's 'Henry VI' with real guts - and other viscera

Pacino Plays the Wilde Card Yet Again by Linda Winer

'Salome' reading doesn't need seven veils to mesmerize

Enchanting Acting on Familiar Turf by Linda Winer

Englishwomen head to Italy to bask in a sunshine fantasy

'Light in the Piazza' is a risky business By Linda Winer

The show feels too grand for its ultimately icky little story. We leave asking the wrong question, wondering why this justifies the interest and efforts of some of the theater's most progres…

'Cowboy' Still Hopes to Lasso a Tony Nomination by Gordon Cox

Look like a Broadway star - for $20 by GORDON COX

Still need to scare up a Halloween costume? Theatre Development Fund, the organization that runs the discount TKTS booths, can help.

Doing poetic justice to many characters BY LINDA WINER

To call "Bridge & Tunnel" the nicest show on Broadway is not to paste a phony smile button on Sarah Jones' multicultural, multicharacter breakout solo.

Dancing and partying like it's 1989 BY SAM THIELMAN

"The Awesome '80s Prom" is a theme dance punctuated by bits of theater, some improvised, some scripted, all cheerfully populated by a legion of interchangeable stereotypes culled from old Jo…

Serving Up a Rock and Roll Fantasy by Gordon Cox

In her new play, Polly Draper gets to be a rock star.

Three Plays Take The Local to NYC by Gordon Cox

Anna In The Tropics, Spamelot, and Pacific Overtures, etc.

Deep 'Purple' with blues highlights BY LINDA WINER

The show loses its way in the second act and, ultimately, leaves no cliche unturned. But this is not merely the first new old-fashioned American musical of the season. It may well be built t…

Slide Show: Bridge & Tunnel

Ordinary details, yet a potent Holocaust saga BY LINDA WINER

Bouncing Along the Road, Not Merrily by Gordon Cox

The new musical "Bounce," which marks the first collaboration in more than 20 years between musical theater legends Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, opened at the Goodman Theatre in Chica…

Standing On Its Own by Blake Green

No sets to speak of, no costumes (not even those famous veils), but 'Salome' has plenty of sizzle - not to mention star power.

Readings: Hold the Flash by Gordon Cox

There's no set. There are no elaborate costumes. The lighting is simple and stark. The actors read from scripts, and they barely move. Audiences unprepared for the Actors Studio production o…

A smaller bite of 'Sweeney,' but it's bloody good BY LINDA WINER

Is John Doyle's stripped-down, modern-dress production the only "Sweeney Todd" we need to see again in our lifetimes? Certainly not. Is it intensely musical, constantly surprising and bloody…

In the Land of Mock Believe by Linda Winer

An 'audience' of three spoofs the lost genre of trash travelogues

A Groovy Time in Guare-ville by Sylviane Gold

No one's kooks were wackier or more mordant than those of John Guare, whose 1977 play with music, "Landscape of the Body," runs through Sunday at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massach…

Women's lives, strung along a necklace BY GORDON COX

"String of Pearls" may be slight and sentimental, but it works. Even as you acknowledge how contrived it is, you may get a little misty-eyed anyway.

Marking Mr. B's Century by Sylviane Gold

A year of events is set to celebrate the revolution in ballet that was George Balanchine

Love & Disorder in 'Birdie Blue' BY LINDA WINER

Cops seek 7 in L.E.S. shooting BY LINDSAY FABER, DEBORAH S. MORRIS, AND ROCCO PARASCANDOLA

A 'Gypsy' We've Met Before by Linda Winer

'Gypsy' is by no means a disaster. It is merely a conventional, ordinary, stolidly professional and routine retelling of one of the last and one of the most important of the golden-age Ameri…

Tony Campaigns Shift Into Shmooze by Gordon Cox

Super Savion By Susan Reiter

A summertime of Somers will suffice BY LINDA WINER

The show is slickly presented, with live images of Somers on two big screens above her enthusiastic self. The cameras love her. Perhaps, in this case, three does make better company.

Politics Does Broadway by Fred Bruning

In his one-man show, Bill Maher dishes it out - and takes it on the chin

A Double, Please, Wry With a Twist by Gordon Cox

Kiki and Herb haven't really been around for 50 years, despite the ample discography displayed on the wall of the Cherry Lane Theatre.