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There is something terrifically apt in director Julie Taymor, so loved after creating The Lion King, and so hated after Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, inaugurating a beautiful new theater in…
There is a moment in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, which stars Daniel Craig (007) and his wife Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) as a couple who cheat on one another, that may well determine …
When she was ten years old, two seminal events happened to the girl who would become Dr. Ruth, celebrity sex therapist, as we learn in the funny, touching, lovely solo show "Becoming Dr. Rut…
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wicked on Broadway, Monday’s broadcast of Jeopardy featured an entire category given over to the musical, with cast members such as Lindsay Me…
A video for Paul McCarney’s new song “Queenie Eye” shows the former Beatle playing the piano in Abbey Studio, as one by one other celebrities fill the room: actors Johnny D…
The revival of Harold Pinter's adultery drama Betrayal comes as close to being critic-proof as is possible, with record-breaking ticket sales before it opened because of its two stars " Dani…
“The world is a better place when people are doing things rather than having things.“~Damian Bazadona, founder of Situation Interactive “Art is dangerous….” ~ D…
A 16-second video in which Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker pose in front of one or more cameras to promote their roles star Amanda Peet’s playwriting debut, The Commons of Pensa…
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between self-declared critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voic…
As Elizabeth in The Snow Geese, Mary-Louise Parker playfully strips off her beautiful white dress in front of her husband, down to the kind of undergarments they wore in 1917. They flirt, dr…
Here are the production photographs of Daniel Craig, (his real-life wife) Rachel Weisz, and Rafe Spall starring on Broadway in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a tale of adultery that g…
In "A Time To Kill," a play based on John Grisham's first published novel, a black man shoots the two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, killing them right in the Mississippi cou…
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."~Â Oscar Wilde, born October 16, 1854. Several exciting openings on Broadway — two different courtroom dramas on Broadway, one surprisin…
The song Franklin Shepard Inc. from the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, featuring Mark Umbers, Jenna Russell and Damian Humbley, directed by Maria Friedma…
How far would you go to right a wrong; what would you sacrifice? What if the wrong were trivial? These are the questions addressed by the revival of The Winslow Boy, a satisfying old-fas…
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit of the New York Public Theater will tour the following venues in all five boroughs of New York City with “Much Ado About Nothing” from November 4 to 2…
The Romeo and Juliet from the Classic Stage Company, starring Elizabeth Olsen and newcomer Julian Cihi who look terrific together, is the third production of Shakespeare’s trage…
new poster for Neil Patrick Harris in the revival of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” which opens April 22, 2014 at the Belasco Theater. Tagged: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Neil Patri…
They finally put Elmo in jail; Emma Thompson will debut on a New York stage as a murderer. The backstabbers in Brooklyn who do in Julius Caesar are all female. But the real crime is that the…
Has anything like this been done before on television? “The Quarterback” was an hour-long episode of Glee where the characters mourn the death of the character Finn Hudson (frien…
“A Night With Janis Joplin" ends with the singer, embodied by the astonishing Mary Bridget Davies, coming back out for an "encore," singing her blues song "Mercedes Benz" Oh Lord, won'…
Although he's dead, Elliot Leeds is living a virtually perfect life " his marriage better than it has been in years, his cutting-edge company worth $200 billion with 111,000 employees. He ow…
Eric Bogosian is performing in a show entitled 100 at the Labyrinth Theater through October 25, selecting about a dozen different monologues each night from the 100 he wrote and performed in…
In "Bronx Bombers," a new play about the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth stands over a plate piled high with hot dogs at a dinner party given by Yogi Berra, and declares baseball  "the best g…
Bryan Cranston, who just died as Walter White in Breaking Bad, will be making his Broadway debut this season reborn as President Lyndon Baines Johnson in the play All The Way. We know this b…