"Silent Laughter."
The bulk of the show's props and sets will be sold at auction this Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Because too many neophyte cooks are rehashing stale stuff, the new musical "Ministry of Progress" won't be open for business too long at the Jane Street Theatre.
Amanda Green (last item).
It's a tough week for teenagers who babysit for theater-loving families.
Hundreds of plays have been written about mothers and daughters, and thousands have chronicled the problems between fathers and sons.
So playwright Peter Hays decided to skip a generation in his often engrossing drama, "Foreign Exchange."
Opening yesterday at the 199-seat Barrow Street Theatre near Sheridan Square, "Bug" looks like a ticking cult hit ready to explode.
Charles Busch interview (last item).
It isn't every Broadway musical that waits 37 years to get a cast album.
Gabriel Barre, the actor who inaugurated the F.M. Kirby Shakespeare Theatre in 1998 by playing Cyrano de Bergerac -- and wound up marrying his Roxane, Tricia Paoluccio -- returns as a direct…
By the strange looks of "Beautiful Child," playwright Nicky Silver must've been bitten by Edward Albee or at least kicked by "The Goat."
Revivals and transfers dominate springtime openings, with fresher material in other parts of the Manhattan
Some hits, some misses, a winter freeze; then there was 'Taboo' ...
Occasionally, Gurney's "Ssshh! We are in a library, young man" and "I am a famous opera star" bits of exposition flaw the glossy surface of his work. Still, the speed and expertise of his pl…