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Could there be an actor more perfectly suited for Samuel Beckett's works than John Hurt? Not only does his gaunt face and wiry hair recall the playwright, but he has the ravaged look of a ma…
When the indie film musical Once was released five years ago, it became a critical and box-office sensation. This touching tale of the relationship between a Dublin Irish street musician and…
The stifling languorousness that so often afflicts contemporary productions of Chekhov is thankfully nowhere in sight in this Classic Stage Company’s revival of The Cherry Orchard. Dir…
In the classic 1939 comedy "The Man Who Came to Dinner," an outrageously obnoxious character wears out his welcome. The same can be said for the Peccadillo Theater Company revival that opene…
One might think that true-life, murderous outlaws wouldn’t exactly be a likely choice for musical treatment, but then again composer Frank Wildhorn has already put songs in the mouths …
The pair's second show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency displays both their brilliant musical chops and their hilarious comic chemistry.
Two men sit in a sparsely appointed waiting room. The silence is periodically broken by the sound of a banging door, so loud it feels like a gunshot.
"Drives you 'round the bloody bend, doe…
In case you didn't know it yet, drugs are bad. That's the not-very-revelatory message of Dael Orlandersmith's "Horsedreams," her "Reefer Madness"- style drama about the evils of cocaine and …
There’s a chill in the air. The tourists are packing the streets. And the Christmas decorations are blanketing the stores. It can only mean one thing. The Radio City Christmas Spectacu…
There’s a lot of love being expressed at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Not only by the audience towards Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, the veteran musical stars who have been performi…
With so many playwrights indulging in theatrical navel gazing, it's exciting to find someone who's looking out at the world. That's the case with J.T. Rogers, whose last play, "The Overwhelm…
In the opening minutes of Theresa Rebeck’s new play, four young students nervously await the arrival of a famous novelist who they’ve hired to conduct a series of private seminar…
In the opening number of "Cotton Club Parade," Duke Ellington's "Daybreak Express," the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra re-creates the sound of a railroad train loudly barreling down the tr…
It’s not surprising that Noel Coward’s Private Lives is so often produced on Broadway. This delicious 1930 comedy, which has been seen here no less than four times in the last th…
Language isn't the only thing separating the new theatrical production of "La Strada" from its inspiration. This Spanish-language adaptation of Federico Fellini's classic 1954 Italian film u…
The Tony-winning star shows off her strong interpretive skills in her show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
Thomas Bradshaw’s new play Burning is playing at the New Group’s theater on 42nd Street, but it would have been right at home on the old 42nd Street as well. This sprawling, ambi…
'Fragments" is both an accurate and deceptive name for the evening of Samuel Beckett pieces being presented by Theatre for a New Audience. These five short works, collectively lasting under …
There’s a mass seduction going on nightly at the Broadhurst Theatre. In his one-man show Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, the Aussie performer has the audience eating out of the palm of…
At the start of "All-American," a father coaches his teenager in the fine art of the quarterback sneak as his other child watches in bored silence, smoking a cigarette. As it happens, the wo…
Just in case you didn’t you didn’t get your hippy-dippy fix with the recent revival of Hair, there’s now the 40th anniversary production of Godspell to help you get your gr…
Andrew Hinderaker's "Suicide, Incorporated" is at first wickedly satirical, almost Kafkaesque: It concerns a firm called Legacy Letters, which specializes in crafting suicide notes. Since 80…
Santino Fontana continues to emerge as one of the great talents of the New York stage in Sons of the Prophet, the latest confident from Stephen Karam. As some might remember, it was another …
As musical subjects go, Anna Edson Taylor's hardly the Unsinkable Molly Brown. In 1901, the real-life heroine of Michael John LaChiusa's new show went over Niagara Falls in a barrel at age 6…
The title of the show is "The Fartiste."
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