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It's all as agreeably useless as a lazy afternoon giggling at things that, in sobriety, aren't that funny.
If at first you don't succeed.... Well, you know the rest.
Barry Keating, whose "Starmites," set in the science-fiction world of Innerspace, ran briefly on Broadway in 1989, has retooled his musical for the 21st century. And the new, souped-up version is making its world premiere at the Cultural Arts Playhouse in Old Bethpage.
Although the original and the new productions were both directed by Arthur Penn, this version seems sweeter, less overbearing, with a gentler appreciation for the script's flights of devious…
Ray Liotta takes a break from playing thugs and crazies on film for his stage debut as a man on an emotional journey
The thoughtful probings of "Hannah and Martin" prove more compelling intellectually than emotionally.
Karen Ziemba on "Weird Romance" (second item).
"Vivace" is far more sophisticated than your average circus show: You can tell early on, when the countertenor comes on to sing a few snippets of opera.
Perhaps appropriately for a musical in which amnesia figures prominently, there's not a single memorable flash of wit in "Pardon My English." But the show seems so well aware of its status a…
Contract talks set to start months early to avoid walkout. Major issue is pay parity for actors performing in national tours
Ethnic performing arts companies bring a multicultural time-and-place warp to stages all over the city
'Sly Fox' is back, with Richard Dreyfuss as a wealthy con man leading a pack of schemers. It's set in the gold rush days - of yesteryear
The actor David Strathairn has appeared on Broadway ("Salome"), Off-Broadway ("The Winter's Tale" at Classic Stage), in films ("Blue Car") and on television (the 2002 remake of "Lathe of Hea…
Adaptor David Auburn endows the show with the same carefully modulated accessibility that he gave to "Proof," for which he won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2001.
"If I were a word," Yeardley Smith says of her lifelong compulsions, "I would be 'more.'" And if this show could have a request, it should be "better."
When director Julie Taymor of "The Lion King" and "Frida" fame makes her Metropolitan Opera debut doing Mozart's "The Magic Flute" next season, she'll save the puppets for the opera's menage…
In recent years, the Cherry Lane Theater has hosted some outstanding original comedies. The cozy theater's string of comic successes ends abruptly with "Open Heart," a semiautobiographical s…
For most regional theater actors, performing brings adulation, new friends and applause. But it's also theatrical therapy for the 44 adults and children with developmental disabilities and m…
Plus Andre De Shields on "Prymate."
