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The City Opera orchestra, conducted by Sondheim veteran Paul Gemignani, is larger and probably better than any ensemble you'd come across on Broadway. To hear the score receive such royal tr…
It's not immediately clear that you're in the hands of a master storyteller when the one-woman play "Bexley, OH(!)" begins.
The Oscar push marches on: Tuesday, at the Egyptian Theatre's Cinematheque screening, it was old-er Hollywood musical stars salute to "Chicago."
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"Chicago" has got all of showbiz infected with music -- and now the SAG Awards will have a tribute segment to actors who sing, those we never expected to hear warble in one of their movies.
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Plus news of an all-star, one-night version of "Hair."
Undulating infants. Barking dogs. Dancing figures of all kinds. Keith Haring's art has a jubilant, kinetic quality that automatically makes you smile.
That movement, if not much of the joy, is present in "Radiant Baby," a strident new musical about the pop artist which opened Sunday at off-Broadway's Public Theater.
There are catchy tunes, and then there are the songs of Jerry Herman.
It's not primarily the baseball players, in and often graphically out of their pinstripes, but playwright Richard Greenberg's love of the game that is the heart and soul of "Take Me Out," hi…
Carol Channing and businessman Harry Kullijian announce their engagement -- to wed this summer.
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Plus an item on Michael Nouri.
An overwhelming sense of sadness, of lives lost too early and promise denied, haunts "Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme," Frank McGuinness' diffuse, demanding but ultimat…
Baz Luhrmann's production of "La Boheme" has a little competition now: from Franco Zeffirelli's more traditional version at the Metropolitan Opera, less than a mile up Broadway.
Another openin', another show. And another show.
If only the book were as fragrant as the music, the show — a flop on Broadway during the 1954-55 season — would be a major rediscovery. It's not. And the musical isn't helped much by the…
Marty Richards; Hattie Winston; "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
"Little Fish," the slight Michael John LaChiusa musical at off-Broadway's Second Stage, goes up in a puff of smoke, despite an ambitious, if uneven score, the energetic direction of Graciela…
Angela Lansbury says she will join the Gordon Davidson-directed Actors Fund (benefit) reading of "The Wisdom of Eve" March 30 at the Ahmanson, with a cast including Tim Curry, Blythe Danner, Victor Garber, Melissa Manchester and Carl Reiner.
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