413 stories by "Anita Gates"
The holiday musical finds the quartet back from the afterworld and ready to sing.
Some lost souls take a bus ride to heaven in this stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis's novella.
Kathleen Chalfant portrays Rose Kennedy in this solo show put on by Nora's Playhouse, at the Clurman Theater.
Robert Cuccioli stars in this reimagining of "The Rothschilds," which played on Broadway around the same time as "Fiddler on the Roof."
This musical comedy at the Actors Temple Theater smartly delves into the missteps and acts of ego that led to the Iraq war.
This production by Company XIV and AMDM features showgirls and showboys and acrobatic performers in lingerie.
Mr. Larson was hesitant to take the cub reporter role in 1951 for fear that he would be typecast. He eventually changed careers.
The actress takes on the title role in A. R. Gurney's play about a Manhattan love triangle (husband, wife and pet).
This one-act parody lives mainly for its adolescent double entendres and Everett Quinton's delicious performance.
With flashes of humor, Kevin Kerr's play evokes the horrors of a 1918 pandemic that gave people no time to mourn.
In this farce by Nicholas Korn, influenced by commedia dell'arte, a patriarch weighs the qualifications of three suitors courting his children; a fourth complicates matters.
Among the offerings at the festival includes final performances of "Songs for the Fallen," "Manuel vs. the Statue of Liberty" and "Foolerie."
The life and films of James Cagney are celebrated in a musical production at the Theater at St. Peter's.
Kate Mulgrew, at 55, is slithery and age-appropriate in “Antony and Cleopatra”; the historical Egyptian queen was 39 when she met the asp.
“[title of show]” is the story of how “[title of show]”became a wildly successful bare-bones piece of theater.
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's production of "No Man's Land" by Harold Pinter is supported by four veteran actors and a skilled director.
Mr. McCarthy will always be best known as the star of the 1956 sci-fi movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
In José Luis Ramos Escobar’s play at Teatro IATI, a burglar talks with his prey and even acts out bits of “Othello.”
“En el Tiempo de las Mariposas,” at Repertorio Español, presents the story of the Mirabal sisters and their opposition to the Dominican dictator.
A play based on the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II has its world premiere in White Plains.
The teenager’s-dad character in Howard Meyer’s “Welcome: This Is a Neighborhood Watch Community” has a name, Harris Campbell, but I like to think of him simply as Hed…
In Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winning play, a Vermont community-center acting class is put through theatrical exercises that reveal personal truths.
Layon Gray's play "All-American Girls" puts together an all-black female baseball team during World War II for a whodunit.
Two River Theater Company’s production of “Charlotte’s Web” captures the tale’s child-friendly warmth and the adult realities of death and friendship.
“Through the Night” has been described as a look at what it means to be black and male in the United States today, but its deepest meanings transcend race and gender.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015[SHARE]
