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'In dicey times, we reach out into the unknown to figure out who we're going to be next," says Brooklyn playwright Lisa D'Amour, who used that notion as the starting point for her contempora…
"I'd like to gaze out into the abyss for a while," declares a wacko wheelchair-bound mother in "Heartless."
Although watching Sam Shepard's hazy new meditation on life and death an…
We heard it through the grapevine " and from the producers. Brandon Victor Dixon, a Tony nominee for "The Color Purple," and Valisia LeKae, an understudy in "The Book of Mormon" and "Ragtime…
1. Tonya Pinkins (54 Below) The Tony winner for one night: Monday.
Broadway's fall sampler of plays and musicals is stuffed with stars. On deck: Al Pacino and Debra Winger in dueling David Mamet dramas, Jessica Chastain and "Downton Abbey" heart-stirrer Dan…
In a patented, pointed zinger, Gore Vidal wrote: "Success is not enough. One's friends must fail."
The look says Charlie Chaplin without speaking a word: Baggy pants, bowler hat, oversize shoes, snug jacket and mini-mustache.
But there were times when the silent film icon tweake…
Amid deliberately corny jokes and unintentionally sour notes, optimism was a running theme in "The Prince & the Showboy," Faith Prince and Jason Graae's cabaret coupling that debuted Tue…
Ten years ago, when he starred in a London production of Kenneth Lonergan's "This Is Our Youth," Jake Gyllenhaal said: "Every actor I look up to has done theater work, so I knew I had to giv…
1. "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet" (Laura Pels Theatre) Jake Gyllenhaal makes his American stage debut in Nick Payne's family dramedy on Friday.
Harlem Repertory Theatre opens its 2012 season with a chamber version of the musical "Dreamgirls," which begins previews Friday at the 70-seat 133rd Street Arts Center (308 W. 133rd St.).
Short productions unveil new works by Paul Rudnick and Neil LaBute, with stars including Victor Slezak and Alicia Goranson
Some productions peak early. For two Off-Broadway duds, the best part came in their pre-show announcements.
In the '80s-era comedy "Bullet for Adolf," co-writer and director Woody …
High-spirited and tuneful, but long and cumbersome, "Soul Doctor" is a bio musical in fair condition.
Recalling the life of the late Shlomo Carlebach, it hits all the major mile ma…
Between the accomplished authors and actors involved, the trio of bite-sized plays making up Summer Series B come with built-in expectations.
A short play can pack a lasting wallop. The wonderful "Harrison, TX," a trio of intimate portraits by the late, great Horton Foote, does that in triplicate.
A packed house of celebrities bid farewell to composer Marvin Hamlisch at a service that, like his life, was filled with music.
1. "Bring It On: The Musical" (St. James Theatre) Summer's big jolt of fun.
Hand-written in dark letters on a king-size sheet, a family tree looms large in a new production of "Richard III."
With their plainspoken eloquence, Horton Foote's gentle yet deceptively complex stories about small-town life are a welcome addition to any theater season.
Let's blaze a path through the pines and get right to it: Without Donna Murphy's vivid star turn as the Witch in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairy-tale musical "Into the Woods," it'd…
It's easy to admire Woody Harrelson's brass for co-writing and directing a comedy that mashes together incendiary material like Nazis and frequent N-words with stupid stuff like booty calls …
Norbert Leo Butz had nothing to worry about.
But as he made his cabaret debut at 54 Below on Sunday night, he admitted to stressing over choosing a theme. He settled on "Don't suck.…
Four familiar faces have hit the campaign trail and joined the cast of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man," a 1960 play about dirty presidential politics.
1. The New York International Fringe Festival. The annual theaterpalooza turns a sweet 16 this summer.
