ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Missing Maggie Smith
Anyone who has had the good fortune of seeing Ms. Smith at the theater can only hope that she will find the stamina " or maybe it's just the desire " to return to the medium.
Anyone who has had the good fortune of seeing Ms. Smith at the theater can only hope that she will find the stamina " or maybe it's just the desire " to return to the medium.
For the centennial year of Tennessee Williams's birth a few enterprising companies are attempting rehabilitation of his unsuccessful later works.
Nathan Louis Jackson's drama "When I Come to Die," about a prisoner who doesn't die from his lethal injections, is remarkably free of sensation and sentimentality.
In "Interviewing the Audience," Zach Helm selects theatergoers to share some personal details with the audience.
A.R. Gurney's "Black Tie" is one of this prolific writer's most enjoyable plays in years.
"Lost in the Stars," part of the City Center Encores! series, revives the 1949 musical, an adaptation of the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country."
A conversation about the size and structure of the not-for-profit theater world is a necessity at a time when the collapsed economy has left organizations scrambling for funding.
A conversation about the size and structure of the not-for-profit theater world is a necessity at a time when the collapsed economy has left organizations scrambling for funding.
"The Whipping Man," an atmospheric period drama by Matthew Lopez, has few equals in its arresting strangeness.
Olympia Dukakis stars in this Roundabout Theater Company revival of Tennessee Williams's fitfully moving but often preposterous 1963 play "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore."
"The Old Masters," by Simon Gray, depicts a showdown in Italy in 1937 between the art historian Bernard Berenson and the leading art dealer Joseph Duveen.
"The Walk Across America for Mother Earth" is a playful but perceptive comedy by the downtown writer and performer Taylor Mac.
Will Broadway be a rehab center for established (or aspirational) rockers absent too long from the charts?
Will Broadway be a rehab center for established (or aspirational) rockers absent too long from the charts?
Biology is destiny, and destiny is biology in "The How and the Why," a new play by Sarah Treem at the McCarter Theater.
Brian Bedford's Lady Bracknell drives an effervescent Broadway production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," which he also directs.
"Blood From a Stone," written by Tommy Nohilly and starring Ethan Hawke, is a worthy but wearying new play.
A one-woman show condenses "King Lear" into a 90-minute child-friendly version.
Billie Joe Armstrong, the Green Day frontman, brings a jolt of rock-god electricity to the Broadway musical "American Idiot."
Adam Bock's "Small Fire" at Playwrights Horizons, about a woman who falls victim to a mysterious disease, has a crisp economy and precise focus.
To review or not to review? Or rather, when to review? That is a question lately debated in reference to "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
To review or not to review? Or rather, when to review? That is a question lately debated in reference to "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
The 1920s stage version of "Dracula" has been revived with Michel Altieri as the fanged one.
Most of the best work this year " on Broadway and (mostly) off " was freshly minted. Here's a Top 10 list that contains no revivals.
"Donny & Marie: A Broadway Christmas," reuniting the Osmond siblings, continues through Jan. 2.