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Beatsville at Asolo Rep is an off-center, fun musical and just minor tweaking away from being ready for the next bigger stage.
An exhausted and out-of-work 40-something single mother of an infant son finds her strength and courage in the spirited, romantic, and altogether charming pop and rock musical Ernest Shackle…
Anyone entering the universe of Paul Zindel's bitterly dark comedy, And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little, would do well do heed the famous quote uttered by Bette Davis in the film All About Eve:…
Be warned before entering the world of the Axis Theatre Company and its artistic director Randy Sharp. They have a penchant for asking us to stare unblinkingly into some of life's darkest co…
Not all resurrected and dusted-off plays from yesteryear reveal themselves to be glittering lost diamonds.
Spring has finally sprung in New York, but it's summer 365 days a year in the Illyria of The Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of Twelfth Night.
Even a door that's slammed rarely stays shut forever.
Swing music tends to be both exciting and comforting: reliant on the bright, brash edges of brass, but conjuring the more innocently explosive energy of a simpler and carefree era.
It has a book by stage and screen writer Zakiyyah Alexander, music by rising-star composer-vocalist Imani Uzuri, with Alexander and Uzuri providing lyrics, as well as lyrics taken from the p…
Few plays of recent vintage have entered the public consciousness, to say nothing of the public vernacular, the way Six Degrees of Separation has.
It's no wonder that the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova continues to fascinate a century after her death: Hers is one of the few modern fairy tales everyone wants to bel…
With her gripping new play The Antipodes, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, Annie Baker considers one of the artist's eternal dilemmas: What happens when you give ev…
Chocolate has traditionally fallen into the category of things that are pretty good even when they're bad.
The real news about the slam-bang revival of Hello, Dolly! that just opened at the Shubert isn't what you think.
It is difficult to know whether Wink, Neil Koenigsberg's play about a surprising friendship between a homeless teen and a middle-aged former Oscar winning movie star, is intended to be a hea…
Certain distances may seem large, but can in fact be very small: between wealth and poverty, for example, or between importance and meaninglessness, or between being somebody and being nobod…
It's almost impossible today to imagine a time when a Broadway play would have been shut down for obscenity, especially about the long-since-accepted topic of homosexuality.
Letts's script is both funny and intense"and edgy in its depiction and discussion of sex. If the topic of midlife crisis among men is not new, Letts treats it freshly and uncompromisingly.
Andy Karl looked to be in visible pain at the end of the Friday night press performance of Groundhog Day, the new musical at the August Wilson.
What becomes of the designated "losers" from high school when they enter into their twenties as rudderless and adrift as they were back in the day?
It's a sad fact of the even sadder world we live in that J.T. Rogers's play Oslo, which just opened at the Vivian Beaumont at Lincoln Center following a run downstairs at the Mitzi E. Newhou…
Magic acts can get away with being quiet and contemplative, as the magic is usually flashy and showy enough.
The one intriguing twist Zayd Dohrn puts on the traditional culture-clash-marriage plot he uses in The Profane, which just opened at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, is t…
You don't need to be obsessed with beauty products to grasp the timeless axiom about makeup: Less is more.
When you need gold-plated ham, who better to turn to than Kevin Kline?
