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See who EW's Stage Editor expects will go home with Broadway's biggest prize in 25 categories on June 10
The songs from the quickly closed "High Fidelity" deserve a second listen, and vocal legend Barbara Cook keeps going strong at 80
Mo Rocca, the celebrity commentator and current "Spelling Bee" star, gives us his observations on the Tony nominations and N.Y. theatre scene
A heartfelt chat with season 4 finalist Anthony Fedorov, and a song from his Off-Broadway show
EW's Clark Collis chats with George Reinblatt, the man who saw "Evil Dead" and thought, "This could use a song and dance number!"
Melissa Rose Bernardo's Tony predictions: Expect Cynthia Nixon, "The History Boys," and "The Drowsy Chaperone" to be among June 11's big winners
It's one of America's most illustrious African-American theater troupes. It's also a leading example of a creative arts organization that can't get its financial act together.
Friends of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, who died Jan. 30 at age 55, recall her wit, humor, and conviction
Sarah Ruhl’s exploration of late Victorian sexuality is engaging and provocative on several fronts, and it benefits from a subtle and creative production by the Wilma. But Ruhl’s…
Making perfect donuts day after day might be an achievement, but it doesn’t quite add up to a life for Arthur, the proprietor of the Superior Donuts store in Uptown Chicago. But one da…
Rinne Groff’s haunting play springs from her long fascination with the writer Meyer Levin, whose own obsession with Anne Frank provides a compelling coda to the Holocaust.
Is beauty merely in the eye of the beholder? This 90-minute play by the German dramatist Marius Von Mayenburg is part Beckett and part Benny Hill. Depending on your taste, you’ll eithe…
A Lower East Side hallway set in the past, present and future is the site of three plays by the allegedly daring Adam Rapp. The net result is five hours of sloppy, empty playwriting and schl…
Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore concerns what happens when a disagreement mushrooms into mindless violence beyond anyone’s control. And it asks the audience an unco…
Geoffrey Rush, who seems to have cornered the market on inspired lunacy, has done it again. This time he’s Aksenty Poprishchin, Gogol’s immortal definitive urban “little ma…
It’s a triumph of style over substance, thanks especially to excellent performances by Jennie Eisenhower and Marcus Stevens.
Mozart’s music has survived for more than two centuries. After just 32 years, Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus may have worn out its welcome.
How could Jews, of all people, have owned slaves in the antebellum South? Matthew Lopez’s inspiring new play, The Whipping Man, uses one such family as a parable of faith, family, free…
The Milk Train may not be a great play or even a good one. But for Tennessee Williams fans, it has to be seen. And with the astonishing Olympia Dukakis in the central role, this is the produ…
When neither the facts nor the law are on your side, goes an old lawyer joke, shout loudly and bang on the table. Sounds like David Mamet’s kind of law firm.
Americans are overwhelmed by misunderstandings between blacks and whites, not to mention men and women. To soothe this national trauma, we need the healing power of…. criminal defense …
Tennessee Williams’s over-exposed Glass Menagerie is a play that cries out for parody. Yet director Bill van Horn and his four magnificent performers have stripped it of all self-indul…
