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A grab-bag of news and ideas has been piling up faster than old snow. Here are a few.
The 2,600 theatergoers unlucky enough to have bought tickets for the canceled Saturday matinee and evening performances of "Hamilton" will have to go to the back of the long line to reschedu…
Everyone knows the superstars. They shoot onto New York stages with a glow that lights up the box office, if not always the plays, and make people feel left out if they don't have an opinion…
However many lives we wish cats really had, they may yet prove immortal in the theater.
To describe Linda Lavin as flawless in "Our Mother's Brief Affair" suggests we went looking for flaws, which could hardly be less true. Lavin's singular qualities -- the voice that grates an…
"It's news!," declares Claude Solnik with the headline instincts of a journalist and the heart of a playwright. "I know it's news -- and it's a good story."
Well, hello, Miss M!
What's this? A gaggle of Elphabas? A herd of Hedwigs? A veritable early American army in hip revolutionary britches?
"Doors and sardines! That's what it's about! That's farce! That's theater! That's life!"
Whatever else a new year means, the winter/spring season on Broadway is the time producers roll out their big, new shows. After a relatively sleepy autumn for new ideas (OK, let's assume the…
The moment comes, felt perhaps more deeply than ever, at the end of "Fiddler on the Roof. "Although this beloved workhorse of a masterwork needs little justification for another Broadway rev…
Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing it. Lin-Manuel Miranda is doing it. Even Taylor Swift is doing it -- that is, joining the wave of artists trying to awaken music education and a love of musicals…
Genuine showstoppers rarely happen in the musical theater, especially in the middle of an act. But when they do, something happens -- maybe to the air pressure in the lungs of theatergoers -…
"Lazarus" includes David Bowie songs spanning more than four decades, but it would be ridiculous to describe it as another jukebox musical. The nonstop two-hour piece revisits Thomas Newton,…
Andrew Lloyd Webber hasn't been a shiny wagon of musical-comedy fun since, perhaps, never. Even in his very good old days, including the 1970 breakthrough of "Jesus Christ Superstar," the st…
Little wonder there were rumors that Al Pacino couldn't remember his lines in David Mamet's new "China Doll," which had its opening postponed for two extra weeks of previews at top prices.
It may be an overstatement to say there's something for everyone in the city at the holidays. This is New York and, you know, people prefer to think that anything worth doing is happening ri…
For reasons we can only speculate, this is the autumn of immigrant stories on Broadway.
Griffin Matthews is a disillusioned out-of-work New York actor who gets kicked out of his church choir for being gay. Matt Gould is his lover, a would-be composer whose happy life with Jewis…
This was the month I saw my first two new serious-comedies -- "Steve" and "Dada Woof Papa Hot" -- about middle-aged gay men with children and identity crises. I also saw an absurdist dysfunc…
Allan Wallach, a longtime Newsday theater critic and entertainment editor who interviewed countless Broadway greats, died Nov. 17 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.
