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Broadway's best hit the red carpet on June 13: See the fashion we loved (Lea!) and loathed (sorry, Paula!)
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The Walnut Street Theater's production of Fiddler on the Roof is better than any I've seen, aside from the original Broadway staging that ran from 1964 to 1972.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom uses a blues band's 1927 recording session to illuminate the self-destructive black rage engendered by centuries of white oppression. This compelling revival by Philadelphia Theatre Company demonstrates that, like all works of art, August Wilson's modern classic succeeds at several other levels as well.
Here' a play about what happens when a statesman leaves office by a statesman who did leave office. But for all the insights he might have offered in Leaving, Vaclav Havel shoots for farce rather than drama.
Lena Horne was a beautiful and talented woman, justly embittered by the labels American society pasted on her. As her neighbor in New York in the '50s and '60s, I witnessed some of that bitt…
The new Quintessence Theatre Group seeks to update the classics for a mass audience. With Measure For Measure, they're off to a good start, even if its strengths lie more in strong acting than in novel concepts.
When a big movie star like Denzel Washington plays an often-unlikable character, the audience is determined to love the character regardless. So blame the audience for degrading August Wilson's complex Fences into a sit-com.
Is American Idiot just another punk rock jukebox musical fouling the Great White Way? Or is it an earnest and even passionate attempt to recapture a moment a few years ago when the concept of "coming of age" changed irretrievably?
As befits a musical comedy set in the '60s corporate world of company men and the working girls they chase around the office, the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises follows a business plan to satisfy several constituencies: fans of the astringent 1960 movie The Apartment; of the original 1968 Broadway production; of headliners Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth; and of Mad Men, the culture-shaping AMC series that has made the antics of company men chasing girls around an office look cool again. That's a lot of promises to keep—not all of which can be fulfilled in this great-looking if compartmentalized production, a show at once visually inspired and tonally challenged.
Neil LaBute's Fat Pig- a commentary about prejudice against those who are different, especially the overweight- is a daring choice for a small suburban company. Its callous characters are difficult to watch but also difficult to turn away from.
Giles Havergal's stage adaptation is faithful to Graham Greene's mischievous comic novel about the travels of an amoral adventuress and her straitlaced nephew. But the real marvel however, i…
Conor McPherson's haunting Shining City is a small, intensely involving, disquieting and thought provoking story about two lonely men trying to pull themselves together.
The macabre incisiveness of The New Yorker's legendary cartoonist Charles Addams is betrayed in this middle-of-the-road, feel-good musical that merely tips its hat to weirdness.
