Theater people for all seasons BY BLAKE GREEN
Neither age nor status as character actor has slowed four first-rate veterans
Frances Sternhagen, Estelle Parsons, Richard Easton and William Biff McGuire.
Neither age nor status as character actor has slowed four first-rate veterans
Frances Sternhagen, Estelle Parsons, Richard Easton and William Biff McGuire.
'Haven" isn't the only personal story in the Fringe Festival, which counts the autobiographical play as one of its staples. Here are a few more examples from this year's crop.
Unlike most of Foote's best work - including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Young Man From Atlanta" and the Oscar-winning "Tender Mercies" - this one has too many of its seams showing.
Review: JEROME ROBBINS: His Life, His Theater, His Dance, by Deborah Jowitt.
As the Republican National Convention approaches late this month, the timing for Theater for the New City's 28th annual "street theater extravaganza" is just about perfect.
Why are Memphis, Philadelphia and Detroit the characters' names in the Off-Broadway revue "From My Hometown"?
"Where the white people at?" black actress Hazelle Goodman shouts to open her one-woman show, before making it known that she especially likes it when they show up, because she makes more mo…
All we really care about is Marilyn.
After decades of being honored abroad and ignored at home, he has a new work opening Off-Broadway - in Chicago, that is
"Fiction."
While the show is too long at two hours, overall it's a delicious night of sexy ballroom dancing, haunting music and beautiful people.
"Junie B. Jones."
When "Hello, Dolly!" premiered on Broadway in January 1964, Lorraine Serabian was an ingenue in training. Now, in this 40th anniversary production of the Jerry Herman classic, the Hofstra al…
Rehatching of 'The Frogs' packs in the Sondheim and silliness
The Mint Theater Company describes "Echoes of the War" as "two short (and sweet) plays" by J.M. Barrie. It would be a mistake, however, to expect whipped cream on top.
Play honors historic auto races BY BILL BLEYER
Five years ago, Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum Curator Florence Ogg learned that in 1906 a musical comedy called "The Vanderbilt Cup" had played on Broadway.
In the original version of "The Frogs," penned by the Greek dramatist Aristophanes in 405 BC, the god of drama and wine traveled to hell in search of a poet to help pull the living through t…
Four Tonys for costume design make William Ivey Long the theater's best dresser. His latest is on the runway at 'The Frogs.'