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Red Bull Theater's remarkable production of this obscure Jacobean tragedy is a rare treat, disproving the tired adage that the Brits do this kind of thing better.
Director David Cromer says negotiations are under way to get James Franco to join Nicole Kidman in a Broadway production later this year of "Sweet Bird of Youth."
The New York State Department of Labor will make "significant changes" to a controversial set of proposed regulations governing child performers, according to a department spokesperson.
New York City's Apollo Theater launched the careers of such legends as Ella Fitzgerald. A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will honor the 75-year-old landmark in th…
Though Brooke Shields shows convincing proof that she can do this cabaret thing, nerves get in the way, and we don't see it often enough in this pleasant but undistinguished turn.
Once your career takes off and you're working steadily as an actor, are acting classes still necessary? Working actors exercise their acting muscles by continuing to take classes.
Kiran Rikhye's "Stage Kiss," a gender-bending "love letter to Charles Ludlam" inspired by John Lyly's 1588 play "Gallathea," was apparently a hit for Stolen Chair in its premiere production …
At first Matthew Lopez's new play resembles a horror film, but once the Stephen King theatrics are out of the way, Lopez offers an insightful examination of faith, race, and history.
The classic image of a graying male oddball in Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" just wasn't relevant to Frank Wildhorn as he toyed with the idea of putting his own twist on the cl…
It ain't easy being a Republican in Hollywood, even if your brother is an A-list director and producer. That's what actor Clint Howard told attendees at a California GOP convention.
Trista Baldwin's new play "American Sexy," now in the tiny downstairs space at the Flea Theater, is rarely surprising in its look at four randy college students on a joyride to Vegas.
Pablo Schreiber and Jennifer Carpenter fill in the blanks in Rajiv Joseph's skimpy two-hander about two mismatched almost-lovers who seem to connect only in times of crisis.
On Jan. 28 the Old Vic, the London theater at which Kevin Spacey is now artistic director, will begin receiving applications for the 2011 TS Eliot US/UK Exchange program.
This Monday night, 92YTribeca will present "Behind the Music-al," an exclusive peek at the next generation of musical theater composers.
Charm, smarts, and delightful performances make the familiar terrain traveled by this romantic comedy seem suddenly fresh.
The Irish Repertory Theatre provides the perfect intimate setting for this monologue play featuring a blazing performance from Geraldine Hughes.
If any production can undo the decades of unwarranted critical scorn heaped on this Tennessee Williams drama, director Michael Wilson's mesmerizing account is the one.
This Monday night, 92YTribeca will present "Behind the Music-al," an exclusive peek at the next generation of musical theater composers.
In celebration of its 125th Anniversary, Avon is launching Avon Voices, an online singing talent search for women.
The Brick's Comic Book Theater Festival is a collaboration between comic book creators and theater artists, where anyone who combines the two visually imaginative forms can sign up.
The initiative to modernize and improve SAG operations includes an online signatory process and faster residuals processing.
David Parsons' choreographic style might be tagged "modern dance lite," yet out of a buoyant lexicon grounded in selective borrowings from classical ballet, Graham technique, and Paul Taylor…
The estimable Mint Theatre Company comes a-cropper with this ill-judged production of Arnold Bennett's musty 1909 play about London tabloid journalism.
Overbrook Entertainment partners James Lassiter, Ken Stovitz, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith are partnering with Jay-Z to release movies. "Annie" will star Smith's daughter, Willow, 10.
This fine concert version of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's rarely performed 1938 musical political satire can't disguise the show's flaws, but American musical history buffs shouldn't mi…
