Critics' Picks Video: 'The Night of the Hunter'
A. O. Scott looks back at Charles Laughton's film about a murderous Southern minister played by Robert Mitchum.
A. O. Scott looks back at Charles Laughton's film about a murderous Southern minister played by Robert Mitchum.
A Canadian critic gives perhaps the most negative review of a Canadian production of the Australian drag classic
A Canadian critic gives perhaps the most negative review of a Canadian production of the Australian drag classic
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers covering New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, is proud to report that multi a…
* BroadwayStars * Tyne Daly and Mercedes Ruehl Will announce the 61st Annual Outer Critics Circle 2010-11 Nominations The First Broadway/Off-Broadway Award Nominees of the Season! …
Award-winning actresses Tyne Daly and Mercedes Ruehl will publicly announce the 2011 nominees for Outer Critics Circle Awards at the Algonquin Hotel on Tuesday, April 26, at 11am. The win…
Tony winners Tyne Daly and Mercedes Ruehl will announce the nominees for the 2010-11 Outer Critics Circle Awards April 26 at 11 AM at the Algonquin Hotel.
It's a question that's asked constantly: Do Broadway critics matter when chat rooms, blogs and Twitter make everyone a critic? Well, it sure seems like they did when it came to "Spider-Man: …
By Byrne Harrison The Pipeline Theatre Company is mounting a vibrant and exciting production of Bertolt Brecht's socialist fairy-tale, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, at Theater for the New Cit…
Bloggers are arguing about whether ideology pervades theatre, and critics' responses to it " and whether some wear their politics more lightly than othersShould critics impose their own valu…
Chris Pine, Ed Harris, Lin-Manuel Miranda and In the Heights were among the winners of the 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards, presented March 14 in a ceremony at the Colony Theatr…
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle has announced its winners and special awards for excellence in Los Angeles and Orange County theatre for the year 2010. Announcements were made at a cere…
Audiences like plays about acting: We enjoy taking a peek backstage because we admire actors, but we also like to see actors portrayed as the goofballs we suspect they are. Actors like plays…
A.O. Scott examines the themes of power and isolation in Orson Welles's 1941 film about a newspaper baron.
Pipeline Theatre Company's Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the best productions I've seen all season, if not the best. It's a complicated and fascinating play within a play, fired by Brecht…
IdIiti Brennan Kapil has a good reason to be smiling. (This pic was taken a few weeks ago when I interviewed the playwright at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven where her new play, "Agnes Unde…
Jennifer Egan won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School on Thursday night for "A Visit From the Goon Squad" (Knopf), a wildly inventi…
DOLLHOUSE Director Bridget Kathleen O’Leary’s decision to cast against type, with Sarah Newhouse as a surprisingly strong Nora and Will Lyman a remarkably sympathetic Evan, makes…
Pipeline Theatre, Off Off Broadway By O'Hagan Blades BOTTOM LINE: Good Brecht. See this if you think theater should have a conscience. Or if you loved those choose-your-own ending bo…
"Circle Mirror Transformation" with Steve Key (Schultz), Carmen Roman (Marty), Lori Myers (Theresa) and Joe D. Lauck (James). THEATER REVIEW: "Circle Mirror Transformation" ★★�
A. O. Scott looks back at Walter Hill's 1979 dystopian drama "The Warriors."
Catherine Russell, a longtime cast member of Off-Broadway's Perfect Crime, met Cal Ripken, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, on Tuesday, March 1 at Borders Columbus Circle. Ripken was…
Catherine Russell, a longtime cast member of Off-Broadway's Perfect Crime, met Cal Ripken, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, on Tuesday, March 1 at Borders Columbus Circle. Ripken was…
Once a month on Sunday afternoons, I meet with eight exceptional playwrights who congregate for a shared love of playwriting. Many of them are also accomplished TV and film writers, but they…
Two-time Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda participated in a conversation with Center Theatre Group's artistic director Michael Ritchie at a special CTG/Artistic Director's Circle Ev…