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It sounds like an oxymoron: a deaf musical.
Stage performances where cigarettes were props, from the gritty play "Twelve Angry Men" about a tense jury room to the standup comedy of Denis Leary, are going to have to be smoke-free, said state Health Department spokesman William Van Slyke.
But if the people onstage are nude, that's OK, right? Good.
The signing is as startling — and as satisfying — as the singing in "Big River," the affecting revival of the 1985 musical based on Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Sylvia Plath is famous today more for her unhappy life than for her poetry and stories, which is a shame, because her work is well-regarded by scholars.
Unfortunately, "Edge" — a new one-woman play about Plath at off-Broadway's DR2 Theatre — does nothing to correct that imbalance.
More than six years after it first opened on Broadway, the revival of "Chicago" has found new life and new, younger audiences - not only in New York, but in a third national tour that opened…
Silly and foolish aren't necessarily the same thing, but the Aquila Theatre Company's revival of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" manages to be both at the same time.
Three years ago, when actor Jefferson Mays began work on recreating the historical character of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf for Doug Wright's play "I Am My Own Wife," he wasn't thinking it might be a role that would make the New York theater community sit up and take notice.
Instead, it was the irony of the situation that struck him.
CHICAGO - The cast of "Bounce," the Stephen Sondheim musical currently receiving its world premiere at the Goodman Theatre, spans three generations of stage and screen talent.
Coco, a wee fluffball of a dog, paces the floor as she waits for her cue at Broadway's Shubert Theatre.
Call it Cirque du Soleil for eggheads.
In New York, the lights will dim on Broadway at 8 p.m. Tuesday in honor of Hepburn, said Patricia Armetta-Haubner, a spokeswoman for the League of American Theaters and Producers.
The malevolent warlock He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named lives inside of Jim Dale.
From Arthur Miller to Carol Channing to Whoopi Goldberg to Nathan Lane, they spoke and sang the praises of the show-biz caricaturist during a joyous ceremony in which the Martin Beck Theatre…
