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Ron Howard may already have made a big fisticuffs film - 2005's "Cinderella Man" - but the boxing metaphors abound in "Frost/Nixon," the director's adaptation of Peter Morgan's play about th…
Look, I don't want to be a Grinch. How mean-spirited would I have to be to pan Irving Berlin's White Christmas, for goodness' sake, a seasonal entertainment with an Irving Berlin score that opened last night at the Marquis Theatre? Let's just say that this live show is based on one of the best Christmas movies ever made - the 1954 "White Christmas" that starred Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Rosemary Clooney. So, by all means, buy the movie for your collection. Or rent it. See it at 9 p.m. Saturday on Lifetime. Do not spend hundreds of dollars seeing this cheap and cheesy "live" version of the movie!
Go to see all these messy relationships and their grand conflagration over money happening to someone else. The rest of us have our own families to worry about - dysfunctional or not - and d…
Though every Sondheim fan will want to see this show in its latest incarnation, directed by the Englishman John Doyle, this small show remains oddly tentative. There is an unfinished quality…
The casting approaches a stunt, and the stunt doesn't quite work.
"Billy Elliot," the heavenly musical that opened last night at Broadway's Imperial Theatre, arrives with exquisite timing.
For Broadway fans, the show is just the beginning.
Simply put, "Romantic Poetry" is the worst show I've seen in 33 years of reviewing.
"Mary's Wedding," the fall main-stage production of the excellent Hudson Stage Company - running through Nov. 15 - is theater at its best.
Charlie Scatamacchia of Croton-on-Hudson appears in "Kiss Me, Kate" at the Irvington Town Hall Theater. Scatamacchia is a vice president at R&H Theatricals in New York City.
"The Language of Trees" is an interesting little show, probably for theater fans only, by an emerging talent who bears watching.
The soaring, beautiful "Black Watch" gets to the heart of the matter like nothing else has.
To be sure, the play is running at Second Stage, whose basic mission over 30 years is to give forgotten plays a second chance. This one might best have been left forgotten.
Director Neil Pepe, artistic director of Mamet's Atlantic Theatre Company, stirs a trio of first-rate actors into a smooth ensemble.
The electrifying revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," which opened last night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is the play to see on Broadway this season.
The series is taking advantage of its proximity to Broadway, too. Christian Hoff, who won a Tony Award for "Jersey Boys," will show up this season. Williams is hoping that her "Into the Wood…
