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There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
TICKET GIVEAWAY TO THE HEIRESS: Win two tickets to see “The Heiress” marking the Broadway debuts of Jessica Chastain (Academy Award nominee for The Help) and Dan StevensÂ�…
There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
Here is the part of the transcript of the first 2012 presidential debate that concerns Big Bird. Debate moderator Jim Lehrer had asked: “What are the differences between the two of you…
Lilla Crawford, a veteran of Cool Whip commercial and Billie Elliot on Broadway, is the new Annie. She’s an old pro, which is clear from her interviews.Asked what she wants to do after…
Johnny Rabe will play Ralphie in A Christmas Story , The Musical, based on the 1983 movie, which is scheduled to play at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway  from November Â�…
Rebecca will not open on Broadway this fall, its producers Ben Sprecher and Louise Forlenza announced yesterday. The bottom line reason: a lack of financing. But as I tweeted yesterday: �…
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September 18 Details of that invitation-only Marvin Hamlisch memorial tonight with Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli ‪ Soshana Greenberg (@Vmarshmellow) I sang in the…
There were 39 TV season premieres this week, seven of them series premieres. A surprising number of these TV shows featured performers who established or embellished their reputations on Bro…
Should audiences applaud celebrities at the beginning of a show? I was struck recently at the response at two different plays, when a handful of people started to applaud David Schwimmer (in…
A day before the opening on Broadway of "An Enemy of the People," which is a play about the efforts to silence a difficult man, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Obama in a vide…
The last three plays that I have reviewed have been about suffering, or at least about falling apart: Most directly (and, in my view, least successfuly), Job, an adaptation of the Bibl…
Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in "Three Days of Rain," Daniel Craig in "A Steady Rain," and now Jake Gyllenhaal is making his U.S. stage debut in a play that begins in a steady downp…
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…
