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Much Ado About Nothing with Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater, under the direction of Jack O'Brien beneath the stars at the Delacorte in Central Park. What doesn't sound enchanting about that?
Like most people in the arts, I believe that the boards of arts organizations must give their artistic leaders the freedom to...
LONDON--Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel Fathers and Sons, which Brian Friel adapted for the stage under the same title in 1987 is just revived...
LONDON, THE GLOBE--Scholars aren't certain when William Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus, although they favor 1593. ...
Fly By Night, the Will Connolly-Michael Mitnick-Kim Rosenstock (who also conceived the enterprise) musical at Playwrights...
The big fact about 75-year-old Alan Ayckbourn is that he's written 78--count 'em, 78--plays during his long career,...
Alan Ayckbourn is the chronicler of the middle class. Up in Scarborough, England, where he turns his plays out and puts...
Staging the play is the always interesting Sam Gold, who has been known to work wonders when he has wonderful material -- but this is not the present case.
The cast members -- despite their now-you-hear-them-now-you-don't accents -- are up to their character's challenges.
I sometimes feel like I have my own Tony Awards black cloud. Last year, my guest got injured at Party #2 (and Matilda lost, which made...
Angel Belle was alive during the entire delivery process. My wife felt her kicking throughout. Her heartbeat was strong. And then it was not. After being delivered, Angel Belle took a single…
I have written frequently about the dangers of erecting a new building before an arts institution is really ready for...
If you like great songs -- not necessarily great songs you already know -- and you like women delivering them, here are CDs that you'd be extremely foolish to think you can live without:
New York has seen recent Macbeths by the handful, including two star-topped Broadway productions in the last year, but they are best forgotten. Now we have Kenneth Branagh's Macbeth -- starr…
William Inge is a dark chronicler of small-town Midwest lives. The roles of alcohol and sexual impropriety are familiar threads in his work -- a striking contrast to the white-picket fence w…
The star makes it look effortlessly simple, weaving his tales and adventures into gloriously funny set-pieces. He has made a side career as reader of the phenomenally-successful Harry Potte…
Fly By Night is about fate, love and loss. Out of those, the second topic provides for more entertaining discussions, so I emailed Allison Case, Adam Chandler-Berat and Patti Murin and asked…
Too many arts managers are not comfortable with financial concepts and data. They can create an operational budget that adds up correctly, but have little knowledge of the workings of the st…
My fair readers -- it is a week before the Tony Awards. What does that mean? It's time for The Drama Desk Awards. There are...
Guess it's blowin' in the zeitgeist, but two adaptations involving rhymed classics are available in Manhattan this weekend only...
Turns out that AJ Taudevin, who wrote Chalk Farm with Kieran Hurley, and Julia Taudevin, who appears in the 55-minute...
I have learned that we cannot simply impress donors and audience members by showing them the great level of accomplishment of our artistic and educational endeavors.
Katie Finneran may be best known for her comedic chops, but the two-time Tony Award winner really hopes her new cabaret show, "It Might Be You: A Funny Lady's Search For Home," reveals her m…
In March 2002, I watched what would become the most controversial play of the season, the short-lived The Smell of the Kill. I don't really remember what I thought of the show in any detail,…
The pieces of American Hero are somewhat too jagged to fit together, but as an offering in the modestly-priced Second Stage Uptown series it provides a pleasant comic diversion on the Upper …
