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Although both the Wang Center and the Barrington Stage Company were part of Sunday night's Tony awards celebration, both organizations said being in the game was as important as winning.
Considering the variety and quality of the shows on Broadway this season, last night's broadcast of the 59th annual Tony awards show was, well, a snooze.
Is it time for a satiric comedy about vigilante anti-terrorism?
Such is the idea behind "Crazy Eyes," John Buffalo Mailer's taut play at the Provincetown Repertory Theatre whose central image is a man bound and gagged in a chair awaiting execution.
Robert Reich, popular talk show pundit, former secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration and Brandeis professor, jokes in the program of his new farce "Public Exposure" that he's outraged and appalled to see his name is associated with his play.
He should be.
The seventh annual Boston Theater Marathon luxuriated in new surroundings Sunday, the plush Virginia Wimberly Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts.
A marathon on stage
The Huntington Theatre Company has announced two additions to its 2005-2006 season. TV star Michael T. Weiss, who was such a hottie in last fall's "Burn This," will star in Christopher Hampt…
Elaine Stritch, guest of honor at this year's 23rd annual Elliot Norton awards, will be unable to attend since she is participating in the memorial for composer Cy Coleman. Stritch will acce…
"Spamalot," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "The Color Purple," even "Edward Scissorhands" playing on the Wang stage?
In the competitive world of commercial theater production, investing early in some of the hottest shows on Broadway and beyond has become the Wang Center for the Arts' new strategy for winning audiences.
Somewhere inside Charles Strouse's new musical "You Never Know" is the germ of an entertaining show. But it's buried so deeply by forgettable songs, flat, uninteresting characters and musica…
"Good plays are mysteries," says actor Jefferson Mays. "You should come out with your head buzzing."
Tony winners Andrea Martin, Blair Brown and breakout actor Brooks Ashmanskas are among the talented artists in the Huntington Theatre Company's 2005-2006 season, announced yesterday.
