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I’m SICK of sports metaphors in election coverage: slam dunk,Hail Mary, ground game. So I asked for suggestions for theater metaphors instead — and got enough to fill a musical! …
The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally …
Illustration by Adrian Tomine
Sandy, arriving angrily last Monday, shocked New York, leaving much of the city, including most of its theater, in disarray. If New Yorkers have never completely embraced Spider-Man, they su…
This photograph by Iwan Baan clearly shows how Sandy divided Manhattan into the Dark Zone and the Power Zones.
Has Sandy caused hardship for the theater you head, or for you personally as a theater artist? Help may be available. Many small organizations, including theaters and galleries, are eligible…
Broadway shows have been back since Wednesday, just two days after Superstorm Sandy hit the city. Now, with electrical power finally being restored downtown, Off-Broadway is back as wellR…
At the beginning of "The Heiress," the heartbreaking story of an abandoned love, Jessica Chastain descends the staircase of a sumptuous mansion in a dazzling red dress and a glorious smile "…
To what are they referring? The accident nearly three years ago in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, where a performer fell off the stage some 30 feet and had to be hospitalized? Could Madison …
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Sandy in Times Square, October 29, 2012
All Broadway shows, already canceled Sunday and Monday evening, are also canceled Tuesday, due to the shut-down of public transportation and to Hurricane Sandy, according to the Broadway Lea…
The sun’ll come out Tomorrow [or maybe Wednesday}  Bet your bottom dollar  That tomorrow [Thursday latest] There’ll be sun! Eight shows are opening on Broadway in the month…
Andrea McArdle sings Tomorrow at the Tony Awards in 1977. The sun will come out tomorrow! Sandy from Space
Lena Horne from the 1943 movie. Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky Stormy weather since my man and I ain’t together Keeps raining all the time, the time Lif…
With the impending threat of Hurricane Sandy in the tri-state area, Governor Cuomo announced the shutting down of all subway, bus and commuter service around 7 p.m. tonight, Sunday, October …
Three shows I saw within a week or so of one another adapted literary works by well-known authors to the stage for the first time: Jonathan Franzen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Rona Jaffe. I…
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Within the first minutes of the Transport Group Theatre Company's "House for Sale," billed as the first work by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom, The Corrections) to be adapted for the stage, I …
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh; otherwise they’ll kill you.”~Oscar Wilde, born 158 years ago this past week. Â October 15 My review of Falling Jo…
The Guardian has posted an article, Is it OK to use Twitter mid-performance? in which the author, Andrew Dickson, answers no — no surprise. And no surprise that all the commenters a…
Near the end of the latest Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, much to my surprise, the Les Miz Rule kicked in. If a Broadway show shines bright lights directly in your face, features st…
