Ann Richards, who has come remarkably back to life thanks to Holland Taylor's impressive impersonation of her at Lincoln Center, became a national celebrity and the governor of Texas after s…
Which shows are you most looking forward to seeing? Choose below among the 18 that are set to open between now and the cut-off deadline for eligibility for a Tony Award at the end of April. …
Matilda, the hit musical from London  had its first preview on Broadway Monday night, March 4th. Matilda The Musical is written by playwright Dennis Kelly, with music and lyrics by the…
Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Cinderella” opened this week for the first time on Broadway, marking the end of fallow February and the start of March and April madness. Over the next…
"To be an actress you have to love to suffer, and I only like to suffer," Abby says near the beginning of Amy Herzog's "Belleville," now opened at the New York Theatre Workshop, which is why…
In the first-ever Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Cinderella," there is a big clock in the ballroom that speeds from 8 to midnight as Cinderella dances with Prince Charming…
This month’s theater quiz is a special TV edition (Half the 10 questions have something to do with both television and theater.) See how well you were paying attention.
At the beginning of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion," the first musical staged by the Classic Stage Company in its 46-year history, two of the three lovers of the story, Giorgio…
Is Jesse Eisenberg not just a movie star ("The Social Network") but his generation's Arthur Miller or Tennessee Williams or Alfred Uhry or Wallace Shawn? That is what Vanessa Redgrave implie…
Kelli O'Hara first learned about Carousel when she performed in it in high school. "I fell madly in love with it. It remains a very favorite." John Cullum had heard songs from Rodgers and Ha…
Humor is the greatest weapon the powerless have against the powerful. When the powerful use it against the powerless, it’s evil. This was my thought the day after Oscar host Seth MacFa…
In a tale told in David Henry Hwang's graceful and gorgeous early play, a father literally explodes when his son tells him he has become an actor. "Little bits of his skin are found hanging …
Is Shia LaBeouf's sudden departure from what would have been his Broadway debut a boost for Broadway in what would normally be a fallow February? But this week actually has been fertile …
Consider Marina " saved by pirates, who then sell her into a brothel, "but she had such a healing spirit that she convinced every man not to have sex with her," Tina Packer says to us, great…
Yes, Charlie Sheen got more followers in a day than I got in three years. Ok, I had to write almost three Tweets for each Twitter follower I got " more words than are in the Bible, twice as …
In its Spring Theater section, the Times features five “new faces” with forthcoming "high-profile stage roles": Jonny Orsini who will play a naif taken in by Nathan Lane in "The …
“In the story over Shia La Beouf’s exit from “Orphans,” Michael Riedel in the New York Post reports a different version of events than the impression left by the rele…
A dramaturg is a murderer in “Icarus,” the episode of “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” in which everybody thinks Cynthia Nixon playing a Julie Taymor-like figure…
This is a clip of the 1987 movie of “Orphans,” based on the 1983 play by Lyle Kessler that is being revived on Broadway this season.
Shia LaBeouf, the movie star (“Transformers”) who was to make his Broadway debut, has left Orphans, the three-character play co- starring Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge which was…
Will we have "Smash" to kick around any longer? Whatever else the backstage Broadway TV show has been, it's been an inspiration for many in the theater community " creating what you could al…
Adele, Rufus Wainwright and Lady Gaga were the singer/songwriters picked most often in answer to the questions:Â Â What singer/songwriter would you like to see writing a show for Broadwa…
A debate over whether actors and other artists must be narcissists and opportunists, sparked by yet another story about Lena Dunham of "Girls"; a new report on the racial make-up of performe…
Many people in Laramie, Wyoming don't think that Matthew Shepard was murdered in their town in 1998 because he was gay — that he wasn't the victim of a hate crime, according to the ext…
"No more rejection, rejection, rejection," the ex-actress tells Ivy and Sam in front of Amy's Bread in the second season premiere of Smash. She has left the theater and gone into "stationery…