Fringe benefits BY BILL STEVENSON
It's a supercharged spring season Off-Broadway
It's a supercharged spring season Off-Broadway
What do you give a man who changed musical theater?
Joanna Gleason, a Sondheim specialist, served the composer a home-cooked meal during her downtime from "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones toasted their Monty Python mate Eric Idle at last night's opening of his musical, "Spamalot."
If anticipation is 70% of good sex, a proportion I just made up, it is about 90% of the pleasure of "Monty Python's Spamalot."
I could admire all the affection and ingenuity that went into adapting "Spamalot" to the stage as well as the Herculean energy the cast puts into it.
I only wish I had laughed more.
"Sopranos" mom Edie Falco finally has a baby of her own.
The Emmy-winning actress has become a single mother by adopting a baby boy.
When they worked on Mike Nichols' "Catch-22" in 1969, Orson Welles drove Austin Pendleton insane.
Plus "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (fourth item).
Riverdance's fancy footwork humbles a once-smug reporter By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
I'll never make fun of Irish dancing again.
Star-studded Broadway revivals in the next few weeks bring back three of the greatest roles ever written for an actress: Martha in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," Amanda in "The Glass Men…
Don't rule out a return by Christina Applegate for the Broadway run of "Sweet Charity," says her husband, actor Johnathon Schaech.
"More than likely, she is going to be on stage before the opening in New York," Schaech tells the Daily News. "She's going to open that show."
To the creators of the new show "Lazer Vaudeville," mixing modern effects like black lights and lasers with old-fashioned acts like juggling and magic isn't just a way to keep vaudeville alive.
It's also a reminder of what helped kill it in the first place.
"Virginia Woolf" may not have the emotional impact it once did, but it is a thrilling evening of theater.
Matthew Bourne reimagines a biting 1960s film
The film "Mail Order Wife" and the play "The Female Heart" reveal complicated truths of marriages born of so-called international matchmaking organizations.
She was always that Guggenheim.
Moya Doherty and John McColgan were sitting in the empty Radio City Music Hall last week, remembering 1995, the year they took a big chance and brought their show, "Riverdance," from Ireland…
Sara Ramirez is having a blast being the featured female who gets to play with the boys in "Spamalot."
Carol Cleveland knows how she feels.
In 'Spamalot,' new star Ramirez gets to shine a lot
The betrayal of Christ is played mostly for laughs in "The Last Days of Judas Iscariot," an uneven blend of farce and sermonizing as compelling and complex as its subject matter.
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