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Meet thirtysomethings Sam Gold, Alex Timbers and Thomas Kail, the respective directors of Broadway's Seminar, Peter and the Starcatcher and Magic/Bird.
"Welcome to blood, sex, sorrow and a good party," a young man said cheerfully, as he handed out a drink during the Flea Theater's adaptation of all seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles, a …
The Nixon Rule is named after Cynthia Nixon, who is starring as a literature professor dying of cancer in the Broadway debut of "Wit" 13 years after it opened Off-Broadway and won the Pulitz…
"It's not all that important, of course," the minister says, helping Miss Helen fill out a form to put her in an old-age home. It is one of many shrewd little moments in Athol Fugard's "The …
Is the "Porgy and Bess" currently on Broadway worth seeing? Consider these other questions: Is "Porgy and Bess" racist? Is it an opera or a musical? How important is that goat cart to you? T…
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. What's on Broadway? Long-running shows, shows about to close, and shows about to open.…
At around 16 years of age, Susan Sontag 1. offered Thomas Mann a reinterpretation of his "Magic Mountain" 2. had her first affair with a woman, 3. met the professor she would marry. "I know …
This rock-concert adaptation in Polish of an abstract two-character French play is cool in a not very fresh way, despite the fine performances of Wojciech Niemczyk and Tomasz Nosinski.
In theater, we don't go out with the old " here, 12-time Broadway veteran Carol Channing, soon to turn 91 " to ring in the new " here, Darren Criss, 24, about to make his Broadway debut. We …
Here are the shows that you can see on Broadway as of this writing — or that are scheduled to open in Spring 2012. Many are closing by the end of December, 2011 or January, 2012. Listi…
Whatever else they have in common " and it's much " the current productions in Brooklyn of "Krapp's Last Tape" with John Hurt and "Misterman" with Cillian Murphy share one above all: Live th…
William Shakespeare is said to have coined several English words and phrases in his first tragedy, "Titus Andronicus," including "Devil incarnate" and "unappeased" " though not, surprisingly…
The Broadway version of "Lysistrata Jones" begins with a loud boom, a full moon, a stage full of smoke, and an intoning diva in Grecian attire. Hooded monks move down the aisles of the Walte…
I asked the Naked Cowboy in Times Square what was the best theater of 2011. "Les Miz," he replied, while he posed in the cold with tourists. Since the revival of "Les Miserables" closed in 2…
It is a swooning moment to hear Harry Connick Jr. sing the title song of a musical now remembered mostly because of that melody, as sung by Barbra Streisand. But Connick sings it only at the…
"There isn't a single one of you that hasn't kept secrets or made mistakes," Dr. LeVay says defensively to his family in "Stick Fly," a play full of mistakes aired and secrets revealed among…
Follow @NewYorkTheater What makes people happiest? The top three answers are sex, exercise, and theater, according to a recent study)` Now, the people studied were 45,000 British iPhone user…
Six short plays, presented over two separate evenings, offer a loosely connected and uneven glimpse at New York City.
In one of the few funny moments in "Bonnie & Clyde," Frank Wildhorn's seventh and best try at a Broadway musical, Clyde's brother Buck offers his wife a confection he bought with the loo…
Follow @NewYorkTheater To be excited by Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin's show, you need not know that their first performance together, in "Evita", made them both stars, and that it has tak…
Follow @NewYorkTheater When Kim Cattrall first appears on stage in "Private Lives," she is wearing nothing but a towel and earrings " it's Samantha of "Sex and the City," you think, in a rol…
Follow @NewYorkTheater Exactly a year after its first preview, November 28th, Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark certainly has much to be thankful for this holiday season. It has grossed upwards o…
The holidays are hell for the Wyeth family of "Other Desert Cities," as they seem to be for most fictional families, far more than real ones. Home for the holidays for the first time in six …
Follow on Twitter at @NewYorkTheater Shows are opening regularly now on Broadway — see my review below of “Seminar” with Allan Rickman — and four new shows were at le…
In "Seminar," Alan Rickman, though no longer Severus Snape (his role in all eight Harry Potter films), plays a character with striking similarities: Leonard starts off evil, ends up complica…
