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The experimental acting company Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble is paying homage to its late co-founder Barbara Vann with a ramshackle revival of Bound to Rise, a satiric "rags-to-riches" mus…
What's going on inside Hench's head? There's no way to be sure, but boy, do you ever want to find out.
In the spring of 1996 the American Theater Wing opened their website and had a message board called "Broadway Talk." I was one of several people who first found a media voice there...
20 years ago, on January 29, 1997, a new website called Talkin' Broadway (TalkinBroadway.com) went live on that newfangled invention people were talking about, the World Wide Web. . . .
Playwright David Ives has long been adept at finding drama - however small the kernels of it may be - within the deepest comedy.
It's not surprising that Yours Unfaithfully, Miles Malleson's 1933 play about a couple's attempt to successfully negotiate the terrain of what we would now call an "open marriage," was not p…
In the program for her new play at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, Tell Hector I Miss Him, playwright Paola Lázaro references winning the 2011 Arts Entertainment Scholarship…
No one would argue that it's far better to learn about cholera from a computer game than from actually dying from it ...
"Democracy," quipped H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Felder's latest musical play gives music connoisseurs the chance to hear classic melodies and relevant social commentary. Longtime fans won't be disappointed and those unfamiliar with Felder…
Even in Something Rotten!, William Shakespeare is the star of the show. As the lyric colloquially states, "the man knows how to write a bitchin' play!"
Falling in love is hard enough, but who knew that not falling in love could be such a struggle?
August Wilson, who built his playwriting name on his "Century Cycle" covering the African-American experience during each decade of the 20th century, eventually proved expert at intertwining…
Chenoweth & McGovern's pretty inging plus Pretty Filthy, a cast recording.
Obsessive behavior is usually treated as pitiable, but why shouldn't what we love"or what we love too much"represent who we are?
Taking their cues from the movies ...
There may be no sadder or more sobering experience than getting what you always thought you wanted or needed, only to discover downsides you never imagined possible.
Christmas theatre, like Christmas songs, Christmas movies, and Christmas TV shows, tends to follow a predictably tooth-rotting pattern about bringing people around to the "spirit of the seas…
Surveys of musicals, if they do nothing else, inevitably incite arguments between the author and the reader. There's plenty of grist for the argument mill in Dietz's tome.
That New York's MTA subway system is a microcosm of humanity is the closest you'll find to a detectable point - and concept - in In Transit, which just opened at Circle in the Square.
Because so much of stage acting is keeping the small small while also allowing it to appear big, it's easy to forget that you can remove the additional amplification and still get a transfix…
It's a unique characteristic of art that it's capable of being "great" without actually being "good."
Dialogue is the chief building block of theatre for a reason.
When you've landed somewhere you feel you don't belong - or you know you don't belong - everything just seems wrong.
Where better to observe the racing heartbeat of change than the epitome of conformity?
