Despite some eloquently expressed ideas, Lisa Kron's political drama drowns in a sea of words. Marin Ireland and Deirdre O'Connell do their best to bail it out, but their stimulus package is not enough.
A 10-ton pudding of Irish whimsy laced with sticky-sweet operetta romance, "Three Wishes for Jamie" nevertheless gets loving care from Musicals Tonight!
All 15 members of the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet are such phenomenal dancers that, when watching the company perform, one is so awestruck by how good they are that it is difficult to foc…
Actors from across the country have joined the "It Gets Better Project" viral video campaign to tell young people who are victims of bullying and discrimination that, eventually, "it gets be…
British composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is selling four of his company's seven London musical theatres in order to reduce debt, he said on Thursday.
Coming hot on the heels of "The Orphan's Home Cycle," Signature Theatre's extraordinary production of Tony Kushner's masterwork may give the company the theatrical event of the season for th…
"In the Heights," the 2008 Tony Award winner for best musical, will close Jan. 9, producers announced today. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the show's creator and also its original star, will return to…
"The Wife," a new play by Tommy Smith, will premiere Off-Off-Broadway next month at the Gallery at Access Theater. Previews will begin Dec. 2, with opening night scheduled for Dec. 5. The pr…
This visually impressive multimedia retelling of the Persephone myth, from "Side Show" scribe Warren Leight, is dramatically dull and musically innocuous, with a bland Julia Stiles in the title role.SOURCE: Backstage at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑
Patrick Healey's two-person adaptation of James Joyce's "Ulysses," though not perfect, is rewarding theater for those who enjoy standout acting, a searching exploration of the human heart, a…
If you're an undiscerning Beatles fan, "Rain" will feel like a welcome shower of nostalgia. If you require more than retreads of classics and video images, walk on by.
It seemed like such a good idea on paper: Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones in "Driving Miss Daisy." Plenty of laughs are landed, but the primal power of this intimate meditation on race…
The three-time Tony nominee shows that she’s more than just an ingénue in this charming cabaret set, displaying considerable versatility as she ranges from passionate, heart-stopp…
Jan Maxwell soars to theatrical heights in this ingenious revival of Arthur Kopit’s 1978 play about a stroke victim. John Doyle’s imaginative direction turns the Second Stage The…
