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"I was tall and I was strong," recalls the oldest woman in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women, and you believe it, because it is Glenda Jackson, who commands even as she winces in pain or cries…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in March? Answer these 14 questions to find out.
"Lobby Hero," which presents a quartet of characters (two security guards and two cops) in the lobby of a high rise apartment building in Manhattan, is more than just the modest comedy it in…
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Tribute to a Superstar, NBC’s celebration of the the 70th birthday of the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” “Jesus Christ Supe…
"Imagine Mozart and Beethoven talking, and suddenly Freddie Mercury arrives," singer Rob Evans said (in the only words anybody spoke all evening) about halfway through "Rocktopia." If imagin…
Has My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity? Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw's century-old pla…
Has My Fair Lady turned its source material, Pygmalion, into an outdated curiosity? Bedlam dares you to compare, deliberately mounting its production of George Bernard Shaw's century-old pla…
Today is World Theatre Day. Created in 1961,it  is celebrated annually on March 27. How will you be celebrating? This year, five different artists from five continents are deliveri…
This week, “Frozen” opened on Broadway the day after the latest blizzard, and  “Angels in America,” which includes scenes from Antarctica and co-stars Nathan Lane …
"The great work begins!" Prior Walter, a character with AIDS who stays defiantly alive, proclaimed at the end of “Angels in America” when it debuted 25 years ago on Broadway. By …
"The great work begins!" Prior Walter, a character with AIDS who stays defiantly alive, proclaimed at the end of Angels in America when it debuted 25 years ago on Broadway. By the time Prior…
13 dead at Columbine. 26 dead at Sandy Hook. 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. What those figures about the most infamous school shootings over the past two decades fail to capture, write…
They’re touting the National Theatre production of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” which will open at Broadway’s N…
What most engaged me about Frozen, if I'm honest, is Sven the reindeer. This said more than I initially realized about the Broadway musical adaptation of the highest-grossing animated film o…
What most engaged me about Frozen, if I'm honest, is Sven the reindeer. This said more than I initially realized about the Broadway musical adaptation of the highest-grossing animated film o…
Today Stephen Sondheim turns 88 (the number of keys on the piano!) and Andrew Lloyd Webber turns 70. Â Sondheim made his Broadway debut at the age of 26 in 1956 , Lloyd Webber at 23 in 197…
With a winter storm that is expected to coat New York City with four to eight inches of snow, city schools have been shut down, but all Broadway shows (matinees and evenings) will play as sc…
Cynthia Nixon, two-time Tony winning actress best-known for portraying lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the “Sex and the City” TV series and movies, has officially entered the race for g…
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” begins previews tonight at the Lyric Theatre, which has been newly co-designed by Christine Jones and Brett J. Banakis. Click on any photograp…
In "Admissions," an aggressively provocative play by Joshua Harmon at Lincoln Center, a white admissions officer (Jessica Hecht), who is committed to increasing diversity at an elite prep sc…
Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
Escape to Margaritaville, the new Broadway musical with songs by Jimmy Buffett, promises much the same experience as the week long tropical resort vacation that it depicts — fun, relax…
In the week since the horrendous car crash in Park Slope that killed two young children, including the four-year-old daughter of Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, and put her in the hospita…
Frozen, the Broadway musical based on the animated film, is currently in previews and will open March 22 at the St. James Theater. Below are photographic portraits of the five principal cast…
Below are new photographs of the cast of Hamilton on Broadway as of March, 2018, three years after opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. It moved to Broadway, opening on August 6, 2015…
