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Cult movie classic is reworked as musical theater
Kathie Lee Gifford has taken up writing musicals, and the results probably won't surprise anyone. Her first effort, "Under the Bridge," is as blandly sentimental as you'd expect from an ente…
"He was never a caricature, like some of the people that play cops and detectives," said Joseph Pentangelo, a former police detective turned actor, who played beside him on several episodes.
Explaining his long stage career, Michael Kantor, executive producer of PBS's "Broadway: The American Musical," said yesterday that Orbach had "the old Broadway charisma. He didn't have the …
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A smash-hit show that has run longer than a prison sentence for manslaughter has been transformed into a movie that crawls like a lifetime on death row.
Michael Benjamin Washington is no drag as a self-made maid in 'La Cage aux Folles'
'The Sound of Music," starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, gets a special "Wonderful World of Disney" airing Christmas night at 8 on ABC/7. Here are five things you might not have…
The shock of the evening is how shockingly cautious it is. "Fat Pig" is a title with a play on it, rather than the other way around.
Don't complain to this corner that the revival, which opened last night at the Marquis Theatre, is passé. With apologies to the show's famous anthem, it is what it is, and that is what it's…
Ever since its brief run in 1992, "The Baltimore Waltz" has been one of those experiences that makes people who bond over theater memories get misty.
Under Michael Bogdanov's direction, the appealing cast can't quite squelch the feeling that this production takes longer to tell the story of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" than Shakespeare di…
"Modern Orthodox" may be a shade smarter and a bit wittier than your average sitcom, but it would still be right at home in predictable prime time.
Billy Crystal's ode to his father makes memorable theater of a Long Beach living room
