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Rodgers collaborations left 2 different legacies
Interview with Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie.
Director brings 1990 production to Curran
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CD Reviews: Into the Woods, Leave It To Me!, Miss Spectacular.
Oh, what a beautiful evenin' by Octavio Roca
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CD Reviews, including "The Michael Feinstein Anthology."
Thinking back and thinking hard, I can't remember the last time I saw a long and wild standing ovation not at the end but right in the middle of a show. That this is happening now, during the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' "Sondheim Celebration," in a musical that has been considered a cult favorite but hardly a now-and-forever blockbuster, only adds to the surprise.
And it was for Alice Ripley.
Maternal roles have kept Olympia Dukakis busy onstage and in film
The rights to Mary Chase's ever-popular comedy about the fantasy life of Elwood P. Dowd -- a mainstay of community theaters across the country -- have been withdrawn because of "a planned re…
JERRY ORBACH was so full of life that you couldn't imagine him sick, or even mildly depressed.
Stanley E. Williams, the founding artistic director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, one of the most influential African American arts companies in California, died Friday. He was 60.
Charles McCue, the former producing artistic director of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and a popular member of the local theater community for two decades, died March 20. He was 51.
Mr. McCue had "been homeless for about the last five years and living on the street in San Francisco," said Mr. McCue's brother-in-law, Greg Angermeier. "Unfortunately, he died on a sidewalk in the Mission" district.
Where his approach to "Sweeney" exposed the musical's vital roots, too many of Doyle's storytelling devices here - one actor briefly using a script, another a karaoke machine - call attentio…
Despite all these cliches and the attendant predictability of the plot, "12 Men of Christmas" is a pleasant way to spend a holiday evening in front of a crackling plasma screen.
In a phone interview from New York, Sondheim said the onstage conversations were the result of a casual dinner conversation with Rich.
It's some enchanted evening, all right.
Ted Sperling, the musical director of the Lincoln Center Theater's Tony-sweeping revival of "South Pacific," was listening to the original cast album while preparing the show.
Bartlett Sher didn't really know "South Pacific" until he began working on the first Broadway revival of the classic 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, a World War II tropical tale of rom…
The rock opera that opened Wednesday, in a world premiere with Broadway aspirations written all over it, packs plenty of excitement and entertainment into a remarkably theatrical rock concer…
Every so often a theater piece comes to town that is so brilliantly conceived and executed, so entertaining on every level, that you want everyone you love or even like just a bit to see it.…
It doesn't take a thing away from Estelle Parsons to say that her bravura performance is just icing on the rich theatrical cake that is "August: Osage County," which opened Wednesday at the …
