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Hugh Jackman's 'Romance' raises coin for MPTF
It produces an embarrassingly amateurish muddle.
Actor-turned-playwright Scott Caan demonstrates a sweet streak.
A work that is simultaneously the most personal and least melodramatic of all MacIvor's works.
New theater to open in spring of 2013
Road grosses
Key issues are health insurance, pension plan
"Everyday Rapture" has stolen in just under the awards deadline and provided an entertaining jolt to the season's less-than-stellar lineup of new musicals.
Attracting an African-American audience to productions of August Wilson plays can be surprisingly tough. Or so goes the conventional wisdom on Broadway.
Actor has provided narration for 15 years and 100 projects
Contemporary scribes are regularly lambasted for writing too few roles for women. It's even rarer to find female riches in the classics, so a National Theater revival of Thomas Middleton's f…
Anyone who takes acting seriously would walk a Broadway mile to see Linda Lavin play a distinguished but earthy author who is betrayed by the adoring protege who worms into her reclusive life in Collected Stories. Pulitzer Prize–winning scribe Donald Margulies deftly if oh-so-laboriously lays out the groundwork for the final confrontation that allows Lavin to rip her guts out. Manhattan Theatre Club a.d. Lynne Meadow, who previously directed Lavin in The Tale of the Allergist's Wife and helms here, respects her star's firepower and has hired a classy tech-team to prove it. But lordy, lordy, what a boring play it is.
Heavy-handed politics and lack of compelling action.
The sensational stage effects deliver the same blood-pumping thrills of a musical, wrapped around a play, by Lucy Prebble, with more brains in its head than any tuner since "Assassins."
'Promises, Promises' bow goes for old-school glamour
Meticulously mounted production does it proud
NYU alum preem experimental drama in downtown L.A.
New site is first step by MSG Entertainment to expand brand
"American Idiot" doesn't look so dumb: The Broadway tuner saw weekly sales shoot up last week in the wake of strong reviews.
Was exec producer, director of Theater Guild of NY
Tuner's opening night party rocks
