290 stories by "STEPHEN HOLDEN"
The singer, who made a comeback in New York clubs after retiring from musical acting to raise her sons, was 90.
This drama based on real-life traces the legal battle by Ms. Mirren's character to regain possession of a priceless canvas stolen from her family by the Nazis 60 years earlier.
At 87, in the twilight of her career, Ms. Cook's concert at the packed Appel Room drew audience members who came to pay tribute and to bask in her still-radiant presence.
In "The Last Five Years," adapted from the play of the same name, a novelist and an actress grow apart.
Judy Kuhn sang music from three generations of the Richard Rodgers dynasty as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.
Stephen Sondheim and Steve Reich chatted and compared notes onstage at a Lincoln Center American Songbook concert that illustrated their mutual interests.
Billy Porter fuses Broadway, pop and gospel in his performances at the Appel Room, part of the American Songbook series.
Al Pacino's tempered wild-man performance in "The Humbling" is one of his strongest in over a decade.
As it begins a 16th season, Lincoln Center's American Songbook series has its most adventurous offerings yet.
Cheyenne Jackson was open and upbeat as he sang standards and contemporary material at Café Carlyle.
David Loud conducts an erudite survey of collaborations by Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince.
Mary Testa shows she can belt à la Ethel Merman and intertwine the music of devastation with that of utter joy.
Cabaret is alive, stirring up excitement and receiving transfusions " thanks to young newcomers and old rockers " but no one can honestly say it's in great health.
"Into the Woods," Rob Marshall's Disney screen adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine musical, is a mash-up of Grimm fairy tales viewed through a post-Freudian prism.
In her new show at 54 Below, Laura Osnes features songs from roles she never got to play.
Liv Ullmann's version of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" features Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell as class-bound lovers repelled and attracted by each other in a battle of the sexes.
Annaleigh Ashford juggles a cabaret act at 54 Below with her Broadway role in "You Can't Take It With You" and her TV role as Betty in "Masters of Sex."
Patti LuPone's "Faraway Places Part Two," at 54 Below, is the sequel to her show there in 2012.
In "Breaking Character," his nightclub act at 54 Below, the Broadway actor Jeremy Jordan shows a range that surpasses teen-idol appeal.
There were fewer chanteuses onstage at this year's New York Cabaret Convention than in the past, and a lot more male performers.
Betty Buckley mixes Broadway standards with Abbey Lincoln and Tom Waits songs in her "Ghostlight" album and show at Joe's Pub.
Andrew Lippa's oratorio "I Am Harvey Milk" broadens its gay rights message to include other persecuted groups.
Christian Camargo's "Days and Nights" is a modern reworking of Chekhov's "The Seagull."
Christine Ebersole brings both her inner hippie and the operetta starlet to her new show, "Big Noise From Winnetka," at 54 Below.
In "My Old Lady," a failed American playwright inherits a splendid Paris apartment, but French law gives his tenant the upper hand.
