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The docu-play powerfully examines the city's flash-mob attacks. Student actors play city officials, law enforcement, and victims, using dialogue gleaned from more than 40 interviews they con…
Theater people want every performance to be memorable for each new audience. But the pressure really mounts when a theater celebrity is in the audience, as was the case Sunday when Sir Steph…
Close on the heels of the Wilma's terrific 2010 production of "Becky Shaw" comes the Montgomery Theater's, which is equally fine but for very different reasons, says critic Wendy Rosenfield.
SMASH. 10 tonight, NBC 10.
I'VE SPENT months trying to resist NBC's "Smash," I really have.
Not only does that title - "Smash"! - lead with its chin, but as a show abou…
The big-ticket item for NBC in 2012 is - drumroll, please - show tunes.
Seriously. They won't let me make this stuff up.
Toby Zinman wrote: Somewhere between a high school assembly speech, a pep talk, and a Wikipedia article, "Branch" by Walt Vail isn't really a play at all.
On, then off, now it looks as is "Clybourne Park" will be back on the Broadway schedule this season, again.
"Rain" not exactly theater, more like watching a really expensive cover band, writes critic Wendy Rosenvield. But it's a decent cover band, with some nice visuals.
Critic Jim Rutter writes that Jon Marans' theatrically ambitious but overwrought "A Raw Space," now receiving a stilted world premiere at Bristol Riverside Theatre, started with a solid if u…
IT WAS A dark and possibly stormy night. OK, it probably wasn't stormy; Daniel Radcliffe can't remember. But the "Harry Potter" star was in bed expecting to drift off to sleep when…
"THE WOMAN in Black" stars Daniel Radcliffe as a Victorian solicitor whose visit to a rural village unleashes a vengeful spirit.
April's Broadway opening of "Clybourne Park" -- the new play that the Arden Theatre Company opened in its own production Wednesday night -- has been cancelled for now.
"WOMAN in Black" stars Daniel Radcliffe as a Victorian solicitor whose visit to a rural village unleashes a vengeful spirit.
I'm not sure Rain, the touring Beatles revue that has also made its home on Broadway since 2010, meets the standard for theater. A knockoff of a knockoff (all four cast members are Beatleman…
"Clybourne Park" a bitter satire about race and real estate, performed by a skilled cast.Toby Zinman found that the play both annoys and amuses; it creeps up on you and makes you squirm.
The Wilma plans a service for noon Monday.
The new play "Clybourne Park," last year's Pulitzer winner, opened in Los Angeles last week in a production that moves directly to Broadway in the spring. But not before the Arden Theatre Co…
Technology utterly failed Philadelphia concertgoers on Sunday. For all the advances in communication, we still can be in only one place at a time - and that's just not fair when the same Sun…
NEW YORK - David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece.
Clybourne Park, a provocative and funny play about the way people discuss race - has become a magical stage property, its rapid trajectory unstoppable.
Raunchy and real, "Bachelorette" does well in Luna Theatre Company's production at the Adrienne. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Matthew Broderick pulls out all his old tricks for Honda
NEW YORK - This is how the Metropolitan Opera's new Ring cycle production ended - not with a scenic blowout characterizing the end of the world, but with some red lights and white statues of…
Artistic directors say they believe that relegating plays about race or African Americans to one month a season minimizes not just the work but the talent pool of black theater artists. Inqu…
A former "American Idol" contestant is heading to Broadway with a character who, it's safe to say, is truly two-faced.
