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The playwrights of three new Off-Broadway works on why they chose unprintable titles.
Can the team behind Broadway's 'Jagged Little Pill' craft a rousing, edgy tribute to the once-reigning Queen of Angst?
Casting is key when it comes to the warring brothers of Sam Shepard's 'True West.' Ethan Hawke and Paul Dano face off in Roundabout's new production.
Los Angeles"based pop star and avid surfer Cody Simpson discusses how he gets in the zone for his Broadway debut in 'Anastasia'"and why being in New York gives him "a chance to wear some mor…
"People are afraid to understand," says Jessy Yates, the first recipient of the Yale School of Drama's new scholarship for actors with disabilities.
The playwright's latest work, 'The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda,' is a cautionary tale about fatal research mistakes.
Looking back at a catastrophic year, 2019 has got to be better.
This is the first time I have not been moved to tears by 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' but that's my can and I'll carry it.
'Clueless, The Musical' hoped we'd care enough about the heroine, Cher, to overlook its synthetic tackiness.
Much of the antiseptic dilution is the fault of Ivo van Hove, a dour Belgian director.
'The Cher Show' is a sequined Wikipedia entry with karaoke breaks.
'When you're starting out in New York, you have to grab them by the balls and make them hear you.'
'Downstairs' doesn't add up to much, but what's there is suspenseful.
'The Prom' may be a candy-colored pop musical, but in a Broadway season dominated by atrocities like 'King Kong' and 'Pretty Woman,' it's a winner.
"During a really embarrassing story like the one I tell about the Red Light District, I think, Wow I can't believe I tell this on stage."
Strip away the ropes, cables, wires and pulleys, and what you've got is a brain-damaged story about a boy, a girl, and a monkey. The monkey is the only thing you'll remember.
'American Son' turns over the rocks in the political climate to reveal Democracy-challenging toxins you might not have even considered before.
'The Waverly Gallery' lacks force because as Gladys' mental state disintegrates, her exchanges grow from amusing to confusing.
MCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a be…
The whiskey flows, rainbows are spotted, tall tales are told and Irish dancing breaks out over dinner.
The play is ultimately about a woman who established her independence before it was fashionable.
Backstage, they apparently call it 'Woke-lahoma!'
I've never seen anything from A.R. Gurney as superficial and unfocused as 'Final Follies'
Dylan songs sprinkle 'Girl From the North Country.' So do clichés.
A swashbuckling Janet McTeer plays idolized French actress Sarah Bernhardt in a play about her shocking 1899 depiction of Hamlet.
