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Jackie Mason, we've heard this song before.
The performances are without fault, especially what should be a star-making turn by Kate Jennings Grant (formerly of "Proof" and "Radiant Baby") as Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway.
This one-woman show is a meandering memory play, delivered by Ellen Burstyn in a quaint, folksy manner that suggests a Norman Rockwell portrait by way of a kinder, gentler Granny Clampett.
Expectations were high for "Anna in the Tropics" because of the Pulitzer, and director Emily Mann's version, first seen earlier in the season at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, N.J…
"Other than the death of my mother, this is probably the most devastating day of my life," Manilow told the New York Post. "Maybe even more so, because it affects so many other people."
Still waiting for that Riedel article from Friday to be available online...
Broadway star Dorothy Loudon, winner of the 1977 Tony Award for her portrayal of the mean-spirited orphanage manager in "Annie," died Saturday at a New York hospital. She was 70.
Loudon, who lived in New York, had been battling cancer, said her manager and longtime friend, Lionel Larner.
This messy yet musically flavorsome show has arrived at the Plymouth Theatre, trailing clouds of controversy.
Penny Singleton, who brought the comic strip character Blondie to life in a popular series of films and was the voice of the mother on "The Jetsons," has died.
Very sorry to hear this – a friend of mine was very close to Penny. I saw her in person three years ago, and she was lively and lovely even then.
The West End, London's equivalent to Broadway, is again a focus of woe, with many wondering why the shows aren't more sparkling and whether Britain's commercial theater has lost its touch.
For those who found the stage version of "Saturday Night Fever" too taxing theatrically, "Fame on 42nd Street" could fill the bill.
Initial theater-chat room banter generally was not kind to the play. "Terribly misguided production, should have been put out of its misery before it got to this stage," wrote one disgruntle…
"The Violet Hour" is a well-crafted play filled with wonder, a celebration of possibility and anticipation of things to come.
Elfman says she was hired after Stamos and had less time to learn the music so she asked that her Broadway debut be delayed for a bit. She says she doesn't know when she'll join the show.
Uh huh...
Playwright Paula Vogel and director Mark Brokaw — with an assist from puppeteer Basil Twist — have come up with a novel, visually stunning way of telling a melancholy tale, one grounded …
Maggie and Brick should be at the center of any "Cat." Here, in the uneven performances of Ashley Judd and Jason Patric, they are not.
Interview.
The Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly — the weapons expert caught in a storm over the British government's case for invading Iraq — focused on the work of British spies, the m…
