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The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
The 2011 New York Innovative Theater Award nominees, announced August 1st, include 166 individual artists, 55 different productions and 45 Off-Off-Broadway theater companies. Winners will be…
The replica of the Stratford-upon-Avon theater that the Royal Shakespeare Company has built inside the Park Avenue Armory looks from the outside like the bottom half of a rocket ship, which …
I saw "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" on the same day as Shakespeare in the Park’s "All's Well That Ends Well" and was struck by their similarities: Both are dark, both …
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
Tyne Daly has said she didn't think she was a fit to play the great and tragic opera diva Maria Callas, when playwright Terrence McNally asked her to take on the role in the current revival …
Broadway vet David Chase explains this vital position As a young man, David Chase told a Broadway dance arranger he wanted to move to New York and become a dance arranger himself, eve…
Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
This new play about the courtship of two residents of a nursing home follows a predictable course but is also fresh and lively, thanks to two veteran actors.
At the beginning of the second act of Spider-Man 2.0, the evil Green Goblin explains how he was transformed from scientist Norman Osborne to genetic mutant: It took weeks and cost $65 millio…
“The Book of Mormon” has won the 2011 Tony for Best Musical and eight other awards, and “War Horse” has won for best play, and in four other categories, in a ceremony…
Below is the list of winners for the 2011 Tony Awards, so far. (Winners will be indicated, as they are announced throughout the evening, in bold face with *). (Scroll to the bottom for early…
Even in his most popular work, Tennessee Williams offered a hint of what the New York Times recently called (in an editorial about Anthony Weiner) the "profoundly squalid and offensive." It …
"Lysistrata Jones," a new musical being staged in a church gymnasium, should be very annoying. It takes Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war comedy out of Greece and turns it into "Grease." The sold…
Mario Fratti's four short "gay-themed" plays all end with a twist, but the biggest twist is how little any of them say about contemporary gay life.
Quiz: What musical has won most theater awards so far this season? How is Daniel Radcliffe being a good sport? John Malkovich will appear on stage in a musical about a serial killer, true or…
The finale to This season’s finale of American Idol, which crowned 17-year-old Scotty McCreery after tallying an unprecedented 122 million votes, included a number of guest performers,…
It has 75 performers, 88 crew members, stunts with names like “Wheel of Death,” and even a plot of sorts — and it opens in June. The difference between “Spider-Ma…
Tony Nominee Derek McLane’s approach to set design
What you notice first in Derek McLane's studio are not the scale models of his theatrical sets—he has designed almost two dozen…
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” “I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” “You don’t understand! I coulda had class. I …
Spider-Man's composer Bono tells Nightline that he and The Edge agree with the negative reviews of Spider-Man. “We really should have known that this is an incredibly difficult thing t…
Steven Spielberg is working on a Broadway musical — sort of. He is the executive producer of “Smash,” a TV series on NBC in the fall about the making of a musical about Mar…
Below are the winners of the 2011 Obie Awards, given for 56 years by the Village Voice for achievement Off-Broadway Performance F. Murray Abraham, sustained excellence of performance André …
