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Samuel Beckett would have turned 100 next month -- but so far, next to no attention has been paid to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright's centennial. Except for an Off-Broadway "Waiting for Godot" that got swallowed up by the transit strike, there have been no Beckett revivals of significance in New York this season (though the Irish Repertory Theatre mounted a very fine "Endgame" last year). According to samuel-beckett.net, the semi-official Beckett Web site, only two full-scale Beckett festivals are being held in the entire U.S., one in Atlanta and the other in Red Bank, a small New Jersey city best known to culture vultures as the home town of Count Basie and Edmund Wilson.
The Subject Was Roses at the Kennedy Center
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Today's musicals usually feature actors who can sing instead of singers who can act. LaChanze, like Kristin Chenoweth, does both with awe-inspiring conviction. I'd believe anything that came…
Craig Cassidy, Sound Engineer, 'Mamma Mia'
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"A lot of fan sites and trade publications operate Web sites dedicated to theater news, but the big gun is BroadwayStars."
"A lot of fan sites and trade publications operate Web sites dedicated to theater news, but the big gun is BroadwayStars."
"Sweeney Todd" has returned to Broadway in a bare-bones, ingenious staging, in which the cast doubles as onstage orchestra; "See What I Wanna See" will knock you flat with its sheer intensit…
For Frankie Valli, life now is pretty sweet.
Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane pair up again in the super-safe vehicle "The Odd Couple"; Wendy Wasserstein's "Third" is neither memorable nor convincing in its portrayal of a radical femi…
The Broadway musical took a page from Hollywood, turning a troubled show into a marketing machine.
With his acclaimed 1983 opera "Nixon in China" coming to New York's Metropolitan Opera, composer John Adams talks about procrastination, isolation and how he does his best work.
A natural showboat with a big smile and limber Dick Van Dyke gait, Hugh Hardy has three new theaters in the works.
Fifteen years after making his debut in 'Arcadia,' Billy Crudup helps revive the play with a new role.
New York City Ballet is set to become one of the country's first major performing-arts companies to govern its employees' posts on Twitter, Facebook and other social-media outlets. Devin Alb…
From "Spider-Man" to "Das Rheingold," stage productions are growing ever more technologically complicated. At what point is it too much—not for the art form, but for the brain?
Phil Labonte is the vocalist for the rock band All that Remains. He was in Tokyo on tour when the quake hit. Here's what he saw and felt.
Alec Baldwin has some advice for Charlie Sheen: "Beg for your job back."
Longtime director Julie Taymor and the producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" are at odds over the terms of her departure from the helm of the $70 million musical.
