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What if Hamlet were an astrophysicist?
Amid confetti, reunions and several rounds of "One Day More," "Les Misérables" played its final performance on Broadway last night, closing after a run of more than 16 years.
If the list of Tony Award nominations is making your brain feel too close to your skull, I feel your pain.
It hardly seems possible that 'Les Miserables,' the music of our lives for 16 years is closing this weekend.
With links to a story from 1993 and Newsday's original 1987 review.
From the opening title - "Riverside Drive" - projected against the Atlantic Theater Company's closed curtain, to the silhouetted skyline it opens on, there's been no hiding the fact that Woo…
Watching Vanessa Redgrave's magnificent performance in Broadway's new revival of "Long Day's Journey into Night," it is easy to forget how close Americans came to losing this transcendent ar…
Since there's no telling how or when the spirit is going to move her, audiences at Broadway's "Salome: The Reading" have to wait until late in each performance to find out if Marisa Tomei wi…
As the title implies, the orchestra has no strings (save for a harp and a bass), requiring Rodgers to make strong use of emotive wind instruments (especially the flute and the clarinet) to c…
LIGHTS OUT. A power surge at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre yesterday delayed the matinee performance of "Nine" for about 45 minutes, but audience members didn't complain much because cast membe…
There have surely been more logically cast productions of "Long Day's Journey Into Night" than the one that roared with such magnificent grace into the Plymouth Theatre last night. But there…
HBO's Maher brings an honest 'Victory' to stage
Brian Dennehy, a 1999 Tony winner, returns to Broadway, and this time he's interpreting O'Neill
Jayne Atkinson is enchanted by her Broadway role
Spotlighting the women who've played the pushy stage mother in 'Gypsy'
What gives suddenly with Hollywood stars and musicals? Inside every movie and TV actor is there an inner Merman screaming to get out?
Yes, it is happening again. The community of theater critics is turning itself inside out over whether to storm the barricades at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in late June and buy our own ticke…
New York City tourism chief Christyne Nicholas said she vividly remembers going to her first Broadway play - "The Magic Show" at the Cort Theatre - with her seventh-grade math class from Lyn…
A sampling of Pulitzer Prize-winning works will get New York showcases in the coming weeks.
In "She Stoops to Comedy," the actor, writer and director David Greenspan does indeed play a woman - and a flamboyantly theatrical one at that - but don't expect to see him decked out in dra…
Niceness is not generally considered a goal for a Broadway musical. Gentleness and civility have seldom been the definition of boffo.
In other words, when we tell you that the nicest show in town is "A Year With Frog and Toad," you would not be wrong to put this in the context of a market where high-tech and the hard sell are practically moral imperatives.
The words of free-speech proponent and blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo come alive in son's new play
It was another tough week on Broadway, with the only stellar box office business being done by the first previews of "Gypsy," despite - or maybe because of - the high-volume buzz that the cl…
