The artist formerly known as Debbie Gibson, now looking sleek, brunette, and calling herself Deborah, is intent on squashing every last teen queen myth that has floated in pop consciousness …
A battle over faith and family gets new dramatic treatment
"Edgardo Mine."
Re-creating the Rose Playhouse is a long-term labor of love
I have seen the future of musical theater, and it is Bruce Springsteen in ''Grease.''
Stewart Lane landed his job directing ''The Gig'' at the Lyric Stage Company because he's got connections at the theater, he says with a wink.
Fiona Shaw promises a Medea who is passionate, but not a villain
With a rising star in the title role and a creative team whose Broadway credits include ''Annie,'' ''Bye Bye Birdie,'' and ''Thoroughly Modern Millie,'' the Huntington Theatre Company's ''Marty'' looks, sounds, and acts like a show that is on its way to New York.
But Huntington managers and the show's creators insist the musical isn't bound for Broadway - at least not yet.
Actor John C. Reilly knows he doesn't have movie-star looks.
Nicholas Martin is taking his Sons of Ulster to Lincoln Center.
Count Dracula has been the subject of countless books, movies, television shows, operas, and plays.
But not since he was turned into a breakfast cereal has there been a blander adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel than the one currently being staged at the North Shore Music Theatre.
Somebody in Hollywood is absolutely convinced that Alfred Molina should be a sitcom star. That same somebody is probably the whiz-brain who once cast Debra Messing as Mary Magdalene, and who…
Reopening the landmark 2,500-seat Opera House on lower Washington Street would expand, enhance, and consolidate Clear Channel Entertainment's control of the Theater District, a prospect that…
Dame Edna fields queries about a new show with aplomb
Lackawanna, N.Y., has been in the news a lot lately because an alleged terrorist cell was found there. But the small city also pops up in a more creative sense, in the play ''Lackawanna Blue…
When Nicholas Martin directs, there is one constant. Whether the material is musical comedy, Irish tragedy, or postmodern black humor, the actors all seem to be having a blast.
Jeffrey Sweet and Melissa Manchester's "I Sent a Letter to My Love" at North Shore Music Theatre.
While Tina Packer, head of Shakespeare & Co., was looking for a work for the fall season by a Berkshires writer that featured a strong role for a woman, she was also reading Carol Gilligan's…
In a one-woman show, Kate Mulgrew takes on the agitation, fear, and legend of Katharine Hepburn
Tony McLean, who has spent his professional life in for-profit theater, has been named president of Broadway in Boston, succeeding a man who sought to bridge the gap between for-profit and n…