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The new year arrives with a ka-ching! by Gordon Cox
Judith Ivey on "Women on Fire"; Steven Tanenbaum on "Mono"; and "reports that Matthew Morrison will definitely play Tarzan in the new Disney musical, slated for 2005, may be a bit premature..."
Broadway finished out the year on a high note, with reported Christmas week sales hitting a calendar-year high of more than $19 million.
Marcovicci show and composer's widow focus on his life and work
There are no second acts in American life, F. Scott Fitzgerald observed many years ago.
Frenchie Davis most likely would disagree with the author of "The Great Gatsby."
The stage of the Lucille Lortel has been transformed into a shadow box for "The Last Letter," the austere new production from Theatre for a New Audience that opened last night.
Wallace Shawn took a stage role long ago to support his writing, and both careers have blossomed since
Even if Neil Simon did not have the entire Western world gunning for him for having hurt Mary Tyler Moore, "Rose's Dilemma" would not have been a good play.
Sadly, though, the audience is never given the opportunity to sample Reynolds' handiwork. But that's not the only reason "Dinner With Demons" makes for an unsatisfying meal.
Irwin remains astonishing, an enchanted but straightforward creature who seems to exist in different air density than the rest of us.
Ed Schmidt's dinner party is a meditation on true nourishment
"I'm gonna live forever," goes the theme song. And while there hasn't been celebrity immortality for many "Fame" alumni (hello, Irene Cara?), there are a few who are still reaching for heave…
Actor-playwright John Kani gets at the post-apartheid 'Truth'
Circus antics get an artsy, funny update from Oz
"Caroline, or Change" also has been offered an available Broadway theater, said to be the Eugene O'Neill, where "Nine" plays it final performance on Sunday.
Many who already have reviewed the TV "Angels" have described this as a dream cast. And certainly, it is. I can't stifle a pang, however, for the dream casts that defined these characters fo…
Review by Gordon Cox
It's a perpetually tantalizing topic, but Reddin's script, about a contemporary family gathering at which the matriarch reveals her own role in the dissemination of information about the murder, is content simply to ask the questions.
Kani's look at life after apartheid creates a moving portrait
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
Wendy MacLeod's new play is a look at bad behavior