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Marty Pakledinaz, who died on Sunday at the age of 58, designed costumes for 35 Broadway shows over the last three decades, his work nominated ten times for a Tony Award, and winning twice, …
Ernest Borgnine, best-known for the title role of Oscar-winning 1955 film “Marty,” for the 1960′s TV show ‘McHale’s Navy,” and for being married to Ethel …
Daphne Rubin-Vega is playing her fifth role on Broadway, as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” 16 years after her first and still best-known part, as M…
Even New Yorkers who get out of town every summer know at least three of the most celebrated summer theater festivals in New York City (and the three do not include the New York Musical Thea…
Since 2004 when it began, the New York Musical Theatre Festival has produced some 300 new musicals, including a few that went on to great fame and popularity, such as Next to Normal, Altar B…
Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire — and there are more classic characters on her…
Here is how Broadway is shaping up so far for Fall 2012. This WILL change: First, a quick chronological list by opening date (if there is one), then alphabetical, with a bit more description…
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Peggy Stafford's "Motel Cherry," from Clubbed Thumb and New Georges and part of Summerworks 2012, mixes "Grand Hotel" with halfhearted fairy tales.
There’s nothing nicer, Patti LuPone was saying with a long sardonic face to Meryl Streep, than to have a bunch of drunks singing Happy Birthday to you in a bar. Nevertheless, sing we d…
The Central Park production of “As You Like It,” starring the luminous cross-dressing Lily Rabe, astonishing double dukes Andre Braugher, outrageous jester Oliver Platt, is not t…
New York theater doesn’t close up shop after the Tony Awards each year. There actually may be more to see, what with the various theater festivals. In any case here are my reviews of s…
What many theatergoers know and don't love about "Harvey" is that this comedy about a 6'3 1/2" invisible rabbit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945, beating out Tennessee Williams' "The…
Sister Act has just announced that it will close on August 24th. Godspell will shutter June 24th. Jesus Christ Superstar said earlier this week that it will play its last performance on July…
The news sparked reactions ranging from stunned to amused to outraged: Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson will make his Broadway theater debut " as will Spike Lee " in the one-man…
Megan Hart's first full-length play about a writer's first novel is too sketchy, and isn't saved by strong performances from Richard Masur and Michelle David.
When Annie Baker, playwright of the exquisite “Circle Mirror Transformation” and her frequent collaborator, super-star director Sam Gold (“Seminar,” “Look Back …
In what can only be called a follow-up to my scoop that the creators of “Slings and Arrows” want to create a fourth season, the National Post of Canada quotes Slings star Paul Gr…
In this still from a photo essay in Vogue magazine, Jeremy Jordan, star of Newsies, prepares for the 66th annual Tony Awards. Newsies won two Tony Awards, including best choreography and bes…
Ethan Lipton's enigmatic send-up of urban life, "Luther," in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, needs more decisiveness.
Winners of the 66th annual Tony Awards for the best of Broadway will be announced on Sunday night, June 10th. Winners will have asterisks in the list of nominees below. The links are to my r…
Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Broadway competed in the 57th annual Drama Desk Awards. The winners are in boldface with an asterisk. OUTSTANDING PLAY David Henry Hwang, Chinglish Dan LeFranc…
This La MaMa revival of H.M. Koutoukas' odd tale of three clowns menaced by a panther-baboon is surreal and often soporific yet redeemed by its language.
Wonderful performances enhance this eerie stew of a story cooked up around fascinating real-life Japanese theater and school of male impersonators Takarazuka.
