15 stories by "Jed Gottlieb"
"1776″ boasts a cast of female, nonbinary and trans actors. Around half are people of color, including leads Crystal Lucas-Perry as John Adams and Patrena Murray as Benjamin Franklin.
"Les Miserables" perfected the Broadway blockbuster. Yes, massive productions preceded it, but nothing matched the epic sweep of the French-via-London operetta when it debuted on the Great W…
The show promotes itself as "Jersey Boys" meets "West Side Story." Stir in a classic gangster movie, triangulate the three, and you get pretty close to the feel of a "A Bronx Tale."Â
Much of the modern theater industry aspires to create lucrative spectacles. Artistic merit might be an happy, accidental byproduct, but Disney fare such as "Beauty & the Beast" and the e…
From "Romeo and Juliet" to gender-bending fashion, the arts scene is in top form.
At last, a production has interpreted Shaw's work as the egalitarian manifesto the British playwright intended it to be.
Critics at newspapers are dying off even faster than print journalism. Theatre critics, film reviewers, A&E editors, and arts writers of every kind have been stripped from dailies and weekli…
Oh, what a life. Four lives actually: Frankie Valli’s, Bob Gaudio’s, Tommy DeVito’s and Nick Massi’s.
Christie Brinkley has finally mastered all that jazz.
The world's greatest supermodel (sorry, Gisele, it's true)...
'Tis the season for Occupy-themed theater.
This fall productions will take on French aristocrats, Chinese government...
"Car Talk: The Musical!!!" (yes, the title has three exclamation points) is an absurd idea. But it's less absurd...
We love the heck out of Samuel Beckett, but "Waiting for Godot" is a winter thing.
Summer is when we forget...
So you think you can't dance?
The Alvin Ailey company says you can.
The iconic African-American dance theater...
If all that warm weather had you thinking Shakespeare in the park, back up. It's cold again, and jumping straight...