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"Telling the truth is a very expensive hobby." So states a character in John Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities," a scathing family drama which transferred to Broadway's Booth Theatre from L…
What do a mental patient with a philosophical bent, a dumb-blond widow, and a philanderer professing true love, have in common? Why, dysfunctional family dynamics, of course - the stuff of w…
Audiences are being lured to The Mountaintop by the star wattage of Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in a play about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. But Katori Hall…
'Liquidity and confidence' is the motto of Gregor Antonescu - the Bernie Madoff of the nineteen thirties " featured as the leading character in the Roundabout's revival of "Man and Boy."
There's no sating Broadway's appetite for Stephen Sondheim. In the last five years alone we've seen revivals of A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story…
A tour-de-force performance from Tyne Daly gives the revival of Terrence McNally's brittle pseudo-bio of Maria Callas plenty of bite...
Usually played more for its comic elements than its serious side, "All's Well That Ends Well," has often confounded Shakespearean scholars.
It's a rare occasion when a playwright's voice is absorbing when utilizing a play as a personal soapbox, but such is the case with Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart."
Movies are being turned into musicals with assembly-line efficiency nowadays, and watching Sister Act, based on the popular Whoopi Goldberg film, you can see the mechanics of creation.
With an explosive performance from Mark Rylance, direct from the Royal Court Theatre in London, "Jerusalem" erupts on The Music Box stage with the tenacity of a hungry wolf.
With an explosive performance from Mark Rylance, direct from the Royal Court Theatre in London, "Jerusalem" erupts on The Music Box stage with the tenacity of a hungry wolf.
Chris Rock makes his Broadway debut in a play with a fittingly foul title for a performer known for his raunchy comedy.
A painfully misguided production, the revival of John Guare's black comedy "House of Blues Leaves," sadly strains under director David Cromer's concept - simply, that the surreal elements of…
The fountain of youth must be located somewhere in the vicinity of the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. That's where the fabulous Sutton Foster is headlining the Roundabout Theatre Company's magica…
From the National Theatre of Great Britain to the grand stage of the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center, the multi-media extravaganza "War Horse" is a tour de force of stagecraft and puppetee…
The film, "Catch Me If You Can," about the world's greatest scam artist, seems tailor-made for a splashy Broadway musical adaptation and the creative team of Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, and…
Brian Bedford's sumptuous revival of The Importance of Being Earnest is definitely not a production marked by radical directorial reinterpretation. It's just pure jaunty, frolicsome fun to t…
Sixteen years after it premiered on Broadway, Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's masterpiece about the quest for knowledge, understanding, glory and love, is just as complexly brilliant as it was in it…
If your heart belongs to the disco era, and you can never get enough sequins, then the musical adaptation of the film, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," is the glitzy, psychedelic-colored fa…
Traditional in form and style, but subversive in content, the new musical, "The Book of Mormon," is a no-holds-barred extravaganza rife with irreverence.
It's been eight years since John Leguizamo's last solo Broadway outing, and Ghetto Klown makes you wonder if he's been writing the entire time. A two-and-a-half-hour autobiographical tour de…
No doubt about it: Daniel Radcliffe is utterly adorable. That much is apparent from the moment he steps onstage--or dangles above it, to be exact--in this utterly charming Broadway revival o…
How does a bleak war-torn tale of sin and redemption find its way to Broadway these days? Casting an Oscar-winner in his Broadway debut doesn't hurt. Enter Robin Williams in Rajiv Joseph's e…
