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The people of Italy see America's 44th president as their potential savior in Claudio Angelini's incoherent and unfunny would-be satire "Obama in Naples."
Below is what I would want to see nominated for Tony Awards in a few of the 26 categories. This is not my prediction of what the Tony nominating committee will actually announce Tuesday morn…
Here are the nominations for the 2012 Drama Desk Awards: OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc, The Big Meal Members of the Plastic Theatre, Unnatural Acts Itamar Moses, …
Timing is everything in farce, but it isn't the fault of the people behind "Don't Dress For Dinner," that it has the bad timing to be arriving at the very end of the Broadway season shortly …
"Leap of the Faith" is the latest of three Broadway musicals with Alan Menken's songs; one of five shows featuring religion; one of seven that were originally movies, and one of countless pa…
He was one of the nation's most influential newspaper columnists for decades, a cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt, close friends with President Kennedy and even closer with Jackie. But Joseph Also…
Nominees in six categories have been announced for the 2nd Annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The Off Broadway Alliance is an organization of Off Broadway producers, theaters, general mana…
Given the talent assembled to fashion a new musical out of 21 of George and Ira Gershwin's durably tuneful and witty songs, it should come as no surprise how entertaining "Nice Work If You C…
The Drama League Awards bills itself as the oldest theatrical honors in America. They are also widely viewed as the least significant — chosen by audience members who have paid to beco…
Ghost grossed half a billion dollars and won an Academy Award for Whoopi Goldberg and for its screenplay, so perhaps it was inevitable the 1990 film would eventually be made into a musical. …
Linda Lavin, twice divorced, thrice-married, five times Tony-nominated (one of which she won), nine years as the star of the sitcom Alice, is at age 74 performing her 16th role on Broadway i…
The Outer Critics Circle announced the first of this year’s New York theater award nominations. The winners will be announced May 24th at Sardi’s. OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY T…
Tennessee William long wanted to see "A Streetcar Named Desire" cast with African-American actors, according to the director who now has brought a multi-racial production to Broadway:
The most breathtaking of the ironies connected to "Clybourne Park" is not one playwright Bruce Norris presents in the comedy itself, which is a clever update of "A Raisin in the Sun…
"One Man, Two Guvnors" asks us some tough questions: Is it funny to see an old waiter repeatedly knocked down a flight of stairs? A fat man eat an envelope? A member of the audience humiliat…
Below are the shows currently on Broadway or about to open. To see a schedule of the new Spring shows and read reviews of those that have opened, see Broadway’s April Avalanche. ANYTHI…
The story of "Peter and the Starcatcher" is improbable enough " a sprawling adventure involving orphans and pirates, mermaids and deadly mollusks that has landed on Broadway with inventive u…
Six decades after her death, three decades after her canonization on Broadway, Evita is back, as immense as a Cathedral, as intimidating as a fascist rally. A sing-through opera as popular a…
The most powerful moment for me in "Magic/Bird," a play about the rivalry and then friendship between basketball stars Magic Earvin Johnson and Larry Bird, occurs after Johnson announces tha…
Which Broadway show are you must looking forward to? Take the poll So many plays and musicals are opening from now through April 26th that it is hard to keep up. Here are my reviews of what …
It is not until the very end of "End of the Rainbow," after Judy Garland's pianist tells us how she died from an overdose, that we feel free to be entertained: Tracie Bennett comes back from…
A report about the new works by Greg Kotis, Lisa Kron, Courtney Baron, Lucas Hnath and more, echoing from the 2012 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
With its talk of sex in the White House and God on the campaign stump, "The Best Man," which debuted in 1960, long has seemed prophetic. But the references to the 2012 campaign are downright…
Wider than the gap between the one percent and the 99 percent, or between labor and management, is the one between those who grew up adoring the film "Newsies" and those who found it unwatch…
When “Jesus Christ Superstar” opened on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theater in 1971, the concept album had already sold two and a half million copies. So, while protesters pic…
