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Producers of "Orphans" announced Tuesday that LaBeouf will join Alec Baldwin in Lyle Kessler's 1983 drama about a pair of parentless siblings.
IN THE pop-rock musical "Bare," it's not skin that gets exposed but coming-out angst and teenage melodrama.
Plus plenty of clichés in this story of sensitive boys and mean girls.
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On Tuesday, a day after getting creamed by critics, David Mamet's prison drama "The Anarchist" got an unceremonious death sentence from producers.
David Mamet's 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner "Glengarry Glen Ross," about ruthless salesmen, can grab you by the throat and punch you in the gut.
Two stocking-stuffer-sized kids are making giant impressions in their Broadway debuts.
Back on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre, where it premiered 75 years ago, Clifford Odets' boxing saga "Golden Boy" is a knockout, thanks to its 24-karat cast.
The 19 actors in the L…
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'The Last Seder'
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At the Jan. 24, 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera, "I Puritani," the air was thick with cutthroat competition, a mangled marriage proposal and a killer cough. Such drama! And t…
Out-of-towners keep the lights burning on the Great White Way. Tourists accounted for 63% of the 12.3 million people who attended Broadway productions, according to the Broadway League's 15t…
David Mamet's new Broadway play "The Anarchist" is a prison duet about two women on opposite sides of the law out to seduce each other one last time.
1. "The Anarchist" (Golden Theatre) Six words for intriguing: Patti LuPone, Debra Winger, David Mamet.
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Carrie Underwood can add landing the lead in "The Sound of Music" to the list of of her favorite things. The Season four "American Idol" winner will star as Maria von Trapp in a live TV broa…
Everybody's multitasking these days. Three busy performers are juggling as fast as they can.
That includes the terrific Judith Ivey, whose Betty Rubble giggle as Aunt Lavinia bright…
There's nothing abstract about the title "My Name Is Asher Lev." It's a straight-up declaration.
If the visuals in "Circus Oz: From the Ground Up," starting Friday at the New Victory Theater in advance of a U.S. tour, look familiar, there's a good reason.
For Katie Holmes, "Dead Accounts" had the potential to be a post-divorce pick-me-up. She throws herself gamely into her second Broadway show (her first was "All My Sons" in 2008) and her rol…
Honest, Abe, nice comeback.
One hundred and 47 years after he was assassinated at Ford's Theatre, Abraham Lincoln is pop culture's Commander-in-Chief.
In David Mamet's prison drama "The Anarchist," Patti LuPone adds the role of political radical to an expansive roster of Broadway credits " 26 and counting " rife with extreme women.
1. "The Piano Lesson" (Signature Center) August Wilson's lyrical drama of a family legacy strikes a chord.
Patti LuPone's current Broadway star turn as a Weather Underground-like radical is the latest in a 40-plus-year career. She's never been shy about characters who don't play by the rules.
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"Elf." Through Jan. 6 at Al Hirschfeld Theatre, 302 W. 45th St. Tickets: $49-$160; (212) 239-6200.
Thanks to recasting, the North Pole's nuttiest an…
Signature Theatre Company's revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" strikes a major chord.
Credit the note-perfect staging by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who's got a knack for navi…
Another season of tinsel and holly, another holiday movie warmed over as a Broadway musical that tries but fails to summon the quirky magic of the big-screen original.
This year, it…
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"Giant"
(Public Theater)
Epic Texas tale told as musical sprawli…
