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Immigration is a hot-button issue " and you can literally feel the heat at "La Ruta." The Working Theater's new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the border …
Leaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway's "Brief Encounter," Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it's shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able to do th…
Who would have thought a play titled "The Dance of Death" would be one of the funniest shows in town?
August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater's revival…
Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
Right now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown's Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals " the real one…
Ancient Rome doesn't seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company's new "Julius Caesar": Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensemble millin…
It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
'Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?" Rob Drummond asks in "Bullet Catch." Whether you do or not, you'll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing solo show, …
Radio drama is alive and well and playing at a theater near you.
So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies " replete with a game audience providing sound effects " have…
It's hard to figure out exactly where to look while watching "The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth." Geared for kids ages 7 and older, this new "live-action graphic novel" is lit…
'Finks" feels personal. And with good reason: This drama about Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford's struggles during the show-business blacklist of the '50s was written by their son Joe Gilford. …
Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
'it's not like a cabaret," gushed Elaine Stritch. "It's like all my friends in New York got together!" And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her Café Carlyle…
Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
Despite its title song dropping more F-bombs than you'd think possible in a single number, "F#%king Up Everything" is actually a sweetly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl musical. Set in hipster-…
Not aimed at the typical-aged theater audience, "Piggy Nation: The Musical!" has a bouncy score and just enough bodily function jokes to keep the kid-crowd for which it's intended. As an add…
The ominous feeling begins upon walking into the darkened theater, where three rusty claw-foot bathtubs are sitting on the stage. And it only gets spookier at the beginning of "The Drowning …
'we're gonna have some fun, don't worry," Bello Nock assured a young boy's nervous parents as he gently escorted their son to the stage.
They had reason to worry: After all, they'd just see…
You might say "For Love," about the tortured romantic lives of three 30-something women, is like "Sex and the City" " only the city is economically depressed Dublin, and the sex is more ofte…
Cirque du Soleil's new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth's gravity and reach the …
You'll definitely want to review those program notes before watching "Neva," the ponderous play by Chile's Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It's set in a St. Petersburg …
It was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution " the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn. And it's treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall,"…
A.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately ("O Jerusalem," "Mrs. Farnsworth") that it's easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foibles. The Kee…
'The Wild Bride" is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it's grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughter's ha…
