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With “Women of a Certain Age,” Richard Nelson brings to a shuddering close “The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family.” Each of the plays in this poignant…
Returning to the stage after 25 years away, Glenda Jackson makes an extraordinary Lear: an elderly woman standing in for an old king. Her performance centers on a contradiction, her slight f…
Two healthy debuts — one for the musical adaptation of “A Bronx Tale” and one for Kristin Chenoweth’s  — helped keep the Broadway box office steady last week…
A trio of regional theater veterans have launched Mainspring Arts Cooperative, a new nonprofit organization that will produce and present theater productions aimed at touring regional theate…
In “Sweat,” currently playing somewhere in the airless attic of the Public Theater, Lynn Nottage goes where few playwrights have dared to go " into the heart of working-cl…
Don’t let the throwaway title deceive you. In “Notes from the Field,” Anna Deavere Smith has created one of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race con…
Keegan-Michael Key has signed on to host the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-focused awards show presented annually by New York's Independent Filmmaker Project. The writer-producer-comedian wi…
At the Broadway box office, "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812" is selling like hotcakes. But behind the scenes a dispute over playbill credits has escalated into a lawsuit —…
What did people ever do before iPhone games? In 18th century Paris, where the sophisticates in “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” lived, members of the upper classes passed the time play…
“The Color Purple,” the Broadway production that won the 2016 Tony Award for best musical revival, will close in January after 14 months on the boards. The show, which also earne…
William Finn and James Lapine were ahead of the curve when they wrote a trilogy of plays about a married man, his family, and his gay lover in the age of AIDS. “In Trousers” debu…
If only we could see the world through each other's eyes, we could finally achieve true understanding. That eternal quest, exploited so inventively in Mary Rodgers' 1972 book "Freaky Friday"…
Qui Nguyen’s biographical play, “Vietgone,” is a smart variation on what a colleague used to refer to as the “My Life So Far” play.  Instead of being a sa…
Fathom Events, the alternative-content distributor for bigscreen fare, has teamed up with streaming service BroadwayHD to present U.S. cinema screenings of select U.S. and international titl…
Glenn Close has locked in her Broadway return in “Sunset Boulevard,” the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in which she reprises the role that won her a 1995 Tony Award. Close, last on…
David Hyde Pierce is giving a quietly devastating performance at Playwrights Horizons in “A Life,” Adam Bock’s meditative one-act play about the meaning and implicit value …
Does Josh Groban sell tickets on Broadway? The answer is looking like a yes, based on the boffo first-week sales at the musical “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.̶…
The crowd at the Oct. 20 performance of Broadway’s “The Front Page” included some faces you don’t see every day at a Broadway opening: Critics, hunched in aisle seats…
Ah, those were the golden days of journalism, when big cities like Chicago were infested with cheesy tabloids, and cynical reporters crammed themselves into squalid press rooms to write (or …
The death of idealism usually signals the end of an era, a brutal message lyrically delivered by David Hare in his 1982 drama, “Plenty,” now in a rare revival at the Public Theat…
“Bandstand,” the musical that premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse last year, has joined the throng of new musicals crowding in to the 2016-17 Broadway season, lining up an Apri…
Donna Murphy has signed on to perform the lead role in the upcoming Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly!” at Tuesday performances beginning in June, alternating with headliner B…
If ever a show caught the national mood, it's this — “Little England: The Musical” by another name. Adapted by Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”) with a score by…
Kenneth Lonergan’s “Manchester by the Sea” topped the nominations for the 2016 Gotham Awards, the indie-centric trophies handed out annually by the Independent Filmmaker Pr…
