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"Orlando," a monologue at the Alexander Kasser Theater based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 fantasy, is set to music and features striking visual projections.
St James theatre, New YorkThis stage adaptation, starring Zach Braff, brings brassy thrusts, American songbook standards and a horde of chorus girls to Woody Allen's comic caper How Woody Al…
In A Raisin in the Sun, her New York theatre debut, the Hotel Rwanda star likes to keep Denzel Washington guessing neither of them knows what the other will do next, she says A Raisin in th…
"Greed: A Musical for Our Times," a revue by Michael Roberts, offers 19 songs about avaricious bankers and crooked chief executives.
John Jesurun's absurdist serial about a businessman's efforts to bilk a wealthy family is back with a new episode after nine years.
"Fast Company" features familial dysfunction topped off with con artistry.
We give our verdict in a first-look review of Sylvester Stallone's classic boxing tale adapted for stage' Forget Rocky: the Sylvester Stallone movies that deserve to be musicalsBoxing is a f…
Schoenfeld theatre, New YorkKelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale sing splendidly in this Broadway musical adaptation of Robert James Waller's novel, but they're let down by the chaste choreograp…
The playwright Will Eno has two new plays coming to Manhattan: "The Realistic Joneses," on Broadway, and "The Open House."
The British director Carrie Cracknell brings a version of "A Doll's House" to the Brooklyn Academy of Music that has a 21st-century sensibility while it retains its 19th-century setting.&nbs…
On stage, Philip Seymour Hoffman excelled playing characters driven by desire. As a theatre director, he pushed his actors towards abandonAlthough best known for his Oscar-nominated turns in…
The writer Toni Bentley and the actress Laura Campbell discuss preparations for a solo show based on "The Surrender," Ms. Bentley's erotic memoir.
The director and multimedia-theater pioneer Jay Scheib creates a live cinematic adaptation of Chekhov's unfinished play.
Stage heavy BrÃan F. O'Byrne confronts a "slight" romantic comedy
Virgil Gadson and Julius Chisolm discuss their dance routine for the jazz revue "After Midnight" on Broadway.
Anne-Marie Duff talks about taking on the burning Lady Macbeth.
Women playing male roles in Shakespeare is a time-honored tradition, about to be refreshed in "Julius Caesar," coming to St. Ann's Warehouse.
Some famous examples of actresses who have played important male roles in Shakespeare plays over three centuries.
The actor Ray Fisher plays Muhammad Ali in Will Power's "Fetch Clay, Make Man," at New York Theater Workshop.
In Daniel Pearle's debut play with LCT3, young Jake " never shown onstage " has an affinity for dressing like the Little Mermaid, among others female heroines.
Nell Benjamin, the author of "The Explorers Club," and Jennifer Westfeldt, who plays the lead role, say their own experiences with male condescension helped them shape the play's heroine.&nb…
John Malkovich, who will play the lead in "The Giacomo Variations" at City Center, recently discussed rakes, roués and his own more discreet charms.
Kristine Nielsen has a long history with the playwright Christopher Durang, and now she has a Tony nomination.
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Walter Kerr Theatre, New YorkThe Testament of Mary, a monologue scripted by novelist Colm TóibÃn from his novella of the same name and performed by Fiona Shaw, boasts the most unusual …
