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It's hunting season for awards by GORDON COX
Let the schmoozing begin.
Actors strip Stoppard's play about the complications of love to its bare essence
How do you value human life in cold, hard cash? That's the question, inspired by the monetary allocations of the federal Sept. 11 fund, posed by theater et al in "Audit," its first full prod…
There's more happy life radiating from this minimally staged version of "Finian's Rainbow" than there is from many of the more fully produced musicals around town.
The controversial musical 'Assassins,' yet another ominous Stephen Sondheim work, recalls the successful and failed attempts on the lives of American presidents
Larry Kramer has attended every rehearsal of "The Normal Heart," his 1985 breakthrough AIDS play that opens Wednesday in a revival at the Public Theater.
A revival of 'The Normal Heart' prompts a look at the whole body of drama scripted by the AIDS epidemic, which has both devastated and re-engergized American theater
'Sex' makes beautiful music after union pact by Gordon Cox
Plus "After Ashley" (second item).
Reviewing the sad story of a celebrated Victorian clown
Patti LuPone leavens her songs with warmth and humor
Three playwrights - 2 Jews and a Palestinian - put a human face on the conflict between their people
The commercial theater needs a bit of Stephen Belber, the downtown playwright who made his Broadway debut at the Plymouth Theatre last night with "Match," an improbable but nimble little fee…
In order to clear away preconceived notions, the Irish director Garry Hynes had the script to Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire" retyped on fresh paper.
Plus Lynn Nottage on "Intimate Apparel."
When "First Lady Suite" had its beguiling premiere at George C. Wolfe's new Public Theater in 1993, we knew Michael John LaChiusa was a name we'd have to learn to spell.
Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow look like they're having a great time in "Mrs. Farnsworth."
The acclaimed television series Women in Theatre returns for a second season with 13 half-hour interviews -- with major directors, choreographers, designers, actors, playwrights and producer…
Actress tackles 'Mrs. Farnsworth' as director's spouse
"Trojan Women" at the Classical Theater of Harlem.
Ray Liotta is not the only major star to make his Broadway debut this season - and he's not the only one to do so alongside a noteworthy theater veteran.
City at Peace, they call it. Hah. This roomful of kids, rehearsing away their Saturday afternoon at the Goldman YMHA/YWHA in the East Village, seems louder than bombs. By Saturday, when the …
