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The show based on the Martin Scorsese film has five lyricists and writers, and it feels like all of the writers got to do their own thing.
When you have actors of the quality and appeal of Laura Linney ("Ozark," of late) and Jessica Hecht ("Breaking Bad"), the two stars of David Auburn's subtle "Summer, 1976," an intimate chanc…
Watching all the kids, many dressed as the Pink Ladies or 1950s rockers, filing into the theater was a fun sight.
In 1958, the brilliant pianist and humorist Oscar Levant, then under medical supervision, appeared live on NBC's "Tonight" show with Jack Paar.
Jodie Comer, famous for her work on the British TV series "Killing Eve," offers up a stunning performance.
Larissa FastHorse's play, which opened Thursday night in New York by Second Stage, is a funny and cutting piece of work that suffers from its own moral earnestness.
"I had no desire to be involved with a jukebox musical, in terms of rehashing or redoing something."
This politically incorrect show is a total blast and one of the very few Broadway attractions where kids are encouraged to talk back to the annoying actors.
Playwright Donnetta Lavinia Grays keeps the focus on the girl tugged and pulled by the adults in her life.
This is as moralistic a musical as you've ever seen, going far more in that direction than did the Alanis Morissette album.
This is the chilliest "Camelot" you ever did see, and embodies many of the current neuroses surrounding the revival of classic American musicals.
If the playwright can let the character who so fascinated her take center stage, she'll have something truly of note.
In playwright James Ijames' eye-popping play, a malcontent named Juicy is chilling in his North Carolina backyard when his recently deceased dad pops up out of his patio grill.
Also on tap during the five-show subscription season on Halsted Street: "POTUS, or Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive."
Anton Chekhov's play, as adapted by the director and performed by many of Falls' favorite actors, is everything I had hoped it would be. Everything and more.
The show roars with life throughout: there's a sense of pent-up energy and a kind of raw, vulnerable intensity.
There was something apt about the opening of the national tour of "A Soldier's Play" in Chicago on a night when the city elected its third Black mayor.
Like an episode of "Hee Haw" written by Mel Brooks, the timely new musical "Shucked" opened Tuesday night at the Nederlander Theatre with more gags than every other current Broadway show put…
Court Theatre plans a shorter, four-show slate.
The stage show uses huge puppets that are walking examples of the single greatest innovation in puppetry ever to hit the stage.
The Goodman's 98th year has many tantalizing highlights, including a new show created and performed by the actor Dana Delany.
Invictus Theatre Company was also a big winner. The nominated season included 106 shows opening between July 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2022.
This must-see production lets Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's gothic revenge story do its thing, without reinvention.
Bad is right. Why did Andrew Lloyd Webber choose to spend time on this?
Maurice White's life forms the spine of Daryl Brooks' "Reasons: A Tribute to Earth, Wind & Fire," the new show at Black Ensemble Theater.
