Drama off the beaten track
The next time you see two strangers em broiled in a heated encounter on a subway platform, don't rush by. You may be passing up a show -- one that costs a mere swipe of your MetroCard.
The next time you see two strangers em broiled in a heated encounter on a subway platform, don't rush by. You may be passing up a show -- one that costs a mere swipe of your MetroCard.
British playwright Tom Stoppard breathed contemporary fire into Chekhov's play, which is running at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater.
Productions in London this summer include hot-button topical works, historical dramas that turn the past into a judgment on the present and even the occasional musical.
Good intentions are not enough. "Chinese Friends," Jon Robin Baitz's new drama at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, is deadly earnest in its outrage, convoluted in its storytelling and st…
Has there ever been a more opulent "South Pacific"?
"Two Gents" may not be a musical for the ages, but for a warm summer night in Central Park, it is just about perfect.
To paraphrase (sort of) from Charles Dickens: It was the best of shows, it was the worst of shows.
Two big, expensive musicals arrived this week on Broadway within a day of one another, and their receptions couldn't have been more different.
Another openin', another show. And another show.