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A chat with the four-member cast of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which is opening on Broadway at the Booth Theater on October 13, 2012 — exactly 50 years …
It is hard to know who to blame for the horribly wrong turn taken in Job, the Flea Theater's initially promising stage adaptation of the Biblical Book of Job, the text that long has offered …
Halfway through "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named  Sharon  explains that…
"The theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection." So writes Moss Hart in "Act One," a memoir that, we're told, …
Lewis Black will be performing "Running on Empty," his stand-up act, at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway from October 9 to October 20, 2012 not coincidentally right before the 2012 Pr…
Yale-bred playwright Lewis Black, more widely known as an angry "Daily Show" comedian and commentator railing against modern times, brings his act to Broadway in October.
Anyone listening to Jason Robert Brown perform his songs at Below 54 realizes two things right away: He's as deserving as any other composer-lyricist of his generation to be called Mr. Broad…
Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, plays the violin, roller skates with a blindfold on, does backflips into a handstand, Â and " most dexterous of all " carries…
British playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz adapts Ibsen’s timely classic. Arthur Miller hesitated before adapting Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People. He believed that t…
Showtime has posted the first 25 minutes of the Season 2 premiere of Homeland — which is a little like inviting somebody to dinner and just serving them the soup. Homeland Season 2 Pre…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of the "Book of Morons" sing "We believe that musicals should be disgusting." Two competing Marilyn Monroes belt "Let Me Be Subpar" A bloated Matthew Broderick woo…
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Roscoe, the only male character in Sam Shepard's new, enigmatic play "Heartless," fondly recalls "my junkie days " Avenue D, 14th Street, Dunkin' Donuts, cops, transvestite fist fights, hook…
In this poll, you can pick more than one choice. For details about the shows, see Broadway Fall 2012 Season Preview
Check out my complete preview of Broadway Fall 2012 – including summaries, video excerpts, Twitter feeds, and even a link to buy tickets.
You can look at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in terms of the movie stars that will be on the stage: Al Pacino and Katie Holmes and Debra Winger — or how about Paul Rudd, Michael Shann…
In the dog days of August, we glance at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in formation; so far, there is a list of some two dozen shows with theaters and set opening dates. We also learn the…
Bring It On is not just about cheerleading acrobatics, as the last summer concert of Broadway in Bryant Park 2012 made clear. Here are 40 seconds of Nicolas Womack as Twig rapping in the mid…
Stay tuned for a detailed preview of the whole Broadway season Bring It On: The Musical (August 1) Chaplin (September 10th) An Enemy of the People (September 27th) Grace (October 4th) Cyrano…
A Christmas Story, the 1983 movie in which Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940′s, has been made int…
Jeremy Jordan, who has played Jack in Newsies since its pre-Broadway try-out, is leaving to focus on his role in the NBC television series Smash. Replacing him starting on September 5, 2012 …
Those of us smitten two years ago by "The Orphan's Home Cycle," the Signature Theater Company's epic production of nine of Horton Foote's plays taking place in a small Texas town he called H…
This week in New York theater began in sorrow, and ended in absurdity. Inbetween were openings and glimpses of what's to come In the week ahead:  Noël Coward in New York Festival with …
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner may wish to reconsider his reported plans to stage a political comeback, thanks to "Tail!Spin!" which eviscerates him and three other politicians at the cen…
Fringe show "Night of the Auk" is a campy revival of Arch Obler's 1956 drama about mankind's first trip to the moon, originally directed by Sidney Lumet.
