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Many Americans were surprised and deeply moved last month when President Obama concluded his eulogy for slain Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney by singing the hymn "Amazing Grace."
Few experiences are as magical as going to a Broadway show.
A few questions circulating around the steamy theater streets:
Backstage theater-memory plays tend to have an inbuilt charm, especially tales of the moment when adolescents first realize they were meant to be actors/playwrights/directors/sometimes even …
There was a time, not all that long ago, when summer theatergoing in Manhattan amounted to two free productions of Shakespeare in Central Park.
As the 2014-2015 season shifts quickly from Tony drama to summer-tourist diversion, we have a window of opportunity to find a few explanations of Broadway mysteries that might confuse more t…
I've just finished filling out my ballot for Sunday night's 69th Annual Tony Awards. As usual, this was really hard.
A quarter century ago, Mary-Louise Parker played a gorgeous, seemingly ditsy bride whose life changed after she was kissed by a very old stranger in Craig Lucas' "Prelude to a Kiss." Parker …
Jesse Eisenberg, who lost me in 2013 by wasting Vanessa Redgrave in a messy play called "The Revisionist," has wooed me back with "The Spoils." On the surface, this terrific, fast-talking, q…
It happens in what feels like a blink. Helen Mirren is playing Queen Elizabeth, matronly at 69, in the beginning of "The Audience" on Broadway. Then suddenly, without leaving the stage, she …
If you're going to cast the embodiment of the Almighty, the King of the Universe, the Alpha and Omega, the Omniscient and the Omnipotent, it makes awfully good -- really, quite heavenly -- s…
Broadway producers have more than a billion reasons to celebrate after the holiday weekend, which officially ended the 2014-2015 year Sunday. According to statistics released Tuesday by the …
There's a new Holy Grail in town: a set of "Spamalot" ducats.
Bill Irwin shows there's a lot more to him than the physical comedy he's best known for
Without spoiling the denouement of the archly Arthurian send-up, which opened at the Shubert Theatre last night, suffice it to say that the show culminates in a moment of intense audience pa…
The unevenly amusing Arthurian antics are presented with so much panache, however, that it's probably churlish to complain.
"Inky."
In "The Value of Names," Jeffrey Sweet's 1982 play, "naming names" and blacklisting are 30 years past. But for Benny Silverman, a legendary comic actor played by raspy, wheezing Jack Klugman…
"The demand for tickets exceeds the supply. It's mind-boggling," said Stephanie Lee, chief executive of Group Sales Box Office, a leading independent group-sales ticket agency.
