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As his "A Life in the Theatre" is revived on Broadway and he embarks on a new film about Phil Spector, the playwright David Mamet talks about how fatherhood has changed him.
At some of the city's finest jazz and cabaret clubs, open-mic nights continue to allow karaoke warriors and off-duty divas an equal opportunity to strut their stuff.
Sir Patrick Stewart's performance in David Mamet's "A Life in the Theatre," at the Schoenfeld Theatre, is deeply comprehending and painfully touching, just like the play itself.
As Broadway continues to generate bank-breaking, star-laden projects, the ongoing New York Musical Theater Festival is giving much-needed money and stage time to new works created by emergin…
Most veteran acts don't own the master recordings of their old songs. So a growing number of artists, including Carly Simon, are taking their old, signature material and rerecording it.
In "La Bête," actor Mark Rylance draws on a childhood spent partly in the U.S.
Broadway is rolling back the clock on rolling up the curtain. This season dozens of musicals and plays are opting for 7 p.m. starting times instead of the traditional 8 p.m.
All you need is Kristin Scott Thomas, in the Beatle's tale "Nowhere Boy," and the French drama "Leaving," says Joe Morgenstern.
With the memory of his longtime creative partner Fred Ebb, John Kander goes to Broadway with one of the four musicals the composer-lyricist duo had been working on at the time of Ebb's death…
Originally a gentle, touching story, the Los Angeles Opera's world premier of Daniel Catán's "Il Postino," based on the film, freights the tale with excess baggage.
Leon Botstein leads the American Symphony Orchestra in a program of works influenced by James Joyce at Carnegie Hall.
Once described as that "unknown British Shakespearean actor," a seven-year hitch at the helm of the Starship Enterprise has opened up vast opportunities for Patrick Stewart.
On paper, the Roundabout Theatre's production of George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren" looks like a sure thing.
Starting on Oct. 9, Yale students and faculty will be able to view the Metropolitan Opera's "Live in HD" broadcasts free on campus, thanks to a $500,000 donation from Mr. Iseman, chief execu…
Chicago's been on quite the roll lately. Two plays, "Night and Day" and "Frost/Nixon," keep that hot streak alive.
"Gatz," a play that runs more than eight hours from start to finish, is one of several marathon shows that require endurance from the performers—and the audience.
While the set of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Das Rheingold" was one of the main attractions at Monday night's premiere, a programming error robbed the final scene of its dram…
Robert Lepage's high-tech "Das Rheingold," with an expensive set and special effects, is a startling coup de théâtre, says Heidi Waleson.
Huntington Theatre Company's staging of "Bus Stop" shows what happens when a director doesn't have the faith to let a play's emotional truth speak for itself.
After rising in popularity in Europe in recent years, sophisticated stage plays targeted to children as young as 12 months are increasingly being produced in the U.S.
Besides, maybe, actually seeing her on stage, there aren't many things more exciting to a theater geek than going to a book party for Patti LuPone.
On two consecutive nights at the The Triad theater on the Upper West Side, Asbury Shorts, the short film touring show, is presenting a two-hour program dedicated exclusively to comedy-themed…
What happens when an avant-garde director stages a remix of an American standard? Nothing great.
The cast of "Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark" is scheduled to start rehearsing in the show's Broadway theater on Monday. One actor, Patrick Page, has been there before: In 2006-07, he played th…
After rising in popularity in Europe in recent years, sophisticated stage plays targeted to children as young as 12 months are increasingly being produced in the U.S.
