A date with drama
“I am no good, but Bjornson is worse.” Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, apparently commented after seeing his statue unveiled in front of the National Theater in Oslo. …
“I am no good, but Bjornson is worse.” Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian playwright, apparently commented after seeing his statue unveiled in front of the National Theater in Oslo. …
Broadway designer William Ivey Long goes for the giddy
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Yet despite the star's formidable presence, "Magical Thinking" still works better on the page than on the stage.
For people who work in and around Broadway, as for pretty much everyone else in the country, the main stage in recent weeks has been on Wall Street.
There is some heartfelt writing here, and the evening is helped immeasurably by its strong cast, particularly the incandescent Eileen Atkins who portrays an abandoned wife.
THE aptly named "Doubt," the latest effort from the prolific John Patrick Shanley, displays a trait all too rare in today's didactic theater: ambiguity.
The fear that infects "Terrorism," the striking and often disturbing play by two Russian brothers, is not exactly of the international variety.
JoBeth Williams finds it's a lot harder to rid a home of pesky humans than ghosts in "Last Dance," a talky, languid drama by Marsha Norman ("'night, Mother").
Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will be honored at the Drama League's 27th annual black-tie benefit gala on February 7, 2011. Dubbed "A Musical Celebration of Broadway," the event wi…
Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Nathan Lane have already seen it. So has Bette Midler, but then she's an investor.
Danny DeVito and Yoko Ono are on tap for next Thursday, and we haven't even gotten to the musical-theater groupies who have bombarded internet chat rooms with their opinions, most of which range from rave to rave to rave.
The play often seems dramatically tepid and slow moving. And this despite the efforts of a hardworking cast that includes Jane Fonda, returning to the New York after an absence of more than …