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"Domesticated," Bruce Norris's comedy about the aftermath of a political sex scandal, stars Jeff Goldblum as the politician and  Laurie Metcalfe as his wife, but the clue to assessing …
"Il Divo, A Musical Affair: The Greatest Songs of Broadway Live" is playing for just six performances at the Marquis Theater, and coincides with their release of a new album. The group, whic…
Here is a 31-second video (not counting the 30-second ad) of Carrie Underwood in NBC’s production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which will be broadcast o…
"The Jacksonian" by Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart) is the second play debuting in New York this season to feature a murder taking place in Mississippi. The first, A Time To Kill, b…
A Disney video that presents the music and lyrics of the song from Newsies, Seize the Day in an artful way: “Now is the time to seize the day / Stare down the odds and seize the day / …
Win two free tickets to see Murder for Two, Â a musical comedy/ murder mystery with a twist: One actor investigates the crime. The other plays all of the suspects. They both play the piano…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in October? Answer these ten questions to find out. Consider this the special Lion King, Wicked, Les Miz edition of my monthly the…
“After Midnight” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” opened during the week in New York theater: We are clearly in the middle of the theater season. I reviewed thes…
Syncopated or synchronized; scatting, swinging or serenading; in white satin or black silk, the more than three dozen supremely talented entertainers of "After Midnight" " singers, dancers a…
There is something terrifically apt in director Julie Taymor, so loved after creating The Lion King, and so hated after Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, inaugurating a beautiful new theater in…
There is a moment in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, which stars Daniel Craig (007) and his wife Rachel Weisz (The Constant Gardener) as a couple who cheat on one another, that may well determine …
When she was ten years old, two seminal events happened to the girl who would become Dr. Ruth, celebrity sex therapist, as we learn in the funny, touching, lovely solo show "Becoming Dr. Rut…
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Wicked on Broadway, Monday’s broadcast of Jeopardy featured an entire category given over to the musical, with cast members such as Lindsay Me…
A video for Paul McCarney’s new song “Queenie Eye” shows the former Beatle playing the piano in Abbey Studio, as one by one other celebrities fill the room: actors Johnny D…
The revival of Harold Pinter's adultery drama Betrayal comes as close to being critic-proof as is possible, with record-breaking ticket sales before it opened because of its two stars " Dani…
“The world is a better place when people are doing things rather than having things.“~Damian Bazadona, founder of Situation Interactive “Art is dangerous….” ~ D…
A 16-second video in which Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker pose in front of one or more cameras to promote their roles star Amanda Peet’s playwriting debut, The Commons of Pensa…
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between self-declared critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voic…
As Elizabeth in The Snow Geese, Mary-Louise Parker playfully strips off her beautiful white dress in front of her husband, down to the kind of undergarments they wore in 1917. They flirt, dr…
Here are the production photographs of Daniel Craig, (his real-life wife) Rachel Weisz, and Rafe Spall starring on Broadway in Harold Pinter's Betrayal, a tale of adultery that g…
In "A Time To Kill," a play based on John Grisham's first published novel, a black man shoots the two white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter, killing them right in the Mississippi cou…
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."~Â Oscar Wilde, born October 16, 1854. Several exciting openings on Broadway — two different courtroom dramas on Broadway, one surprisin…
The song Franklin Shepard Inc. from the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, featuring Mark Umbers, Jenna Russell and Damian Humbley, directed by Maria Friedma…
How far would you go to right a wrong; what would you sacrifice? What if the wrong were trivial? These are the questions addressed by the revival of The Winslow Boy, a satisfying old-fas…
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit of the New York Public Theater will tour the following venues in all five boroughs of New York City with “Much Ado About Nothing” from November 4 to 2…