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It is hard to find a more engaging quartet of unlikable characters than the ones created by the high-powered cast of Paul Weitz's uneven but appealing psychosexual cartoon-comedy.
The play - disarmingly staged by Shakman with a quick-witted cast of nuance specialists - sidesteps the apparent cliches of its funny / sad smart-mouth genre.
Who knows? Maybe "The Capeman," intended as a musical about redemption, will get some of its own.
The show's best-known lyrics ask about "losing my timing this late in my career." These two have hardly missed a beat.
As Second City has been to post-adolescent comedy, Stagedoor Manor has been a seedling ground for the future thespians of America.
It is sobering to know that, since July 13, a synthesizer has been playing five parts in the 1957 masterwork that Leonard Bernstein and his orchestrators imagined would always be connected t…
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch officially open for reviews in "A Little Night Music" at the Walter Kerr Theatre next Sunday.
In just one season, "Glee" may have managed what all the marketing geniuses and ad budgets have been struggling to do since '50s rock snatched the hit parade from the American musical. The s…
Peter Stein's sprawling, surprisingly straightforward story-theater adaptation of "The Demons" was intensely performed, but not always enthralling. Despite a powerful finish, the day was les…
It's not fair to judge a production before it opens. I know the rules, and the reasons for them.
But, really, I can't help it this time. I cannot squelch the dread rising whenever I hear the radio ads for a fall Broadway offering called "Rain."
'The Winter's Tale" is really two stories wrapped in a confusing title and a happy ending.
The July 4th holiday signals the start of some of the most outrageously courageous theater, music, art and dance of the year.
The headlines belong to Al Pacino's harrowing yet unusually restrained Shylock, and rightly so. But the other news on the Central Park rialto is that "The Merchant of Venice," arguably the m…
Nikki Blonsky is learning that being plus-sized can be a plus for an actress.
Movie actors have always given lip service to live theater. Pacino, 70, always put his mania where his mouth was.
Before the season gets flattened into a few winners and more losers, I offer 10 favorite moments from an uneven but unpredictable and often vital year.
At 15, Trent Kowalik already knows what he wants to do "when he grows up."
"I've wanted to do this for a long time," says Alec Baldwin, who's playing Dr. Dysart in the 1970s drama about a stable boy who blinds six horses with a spike to the eye, and the psychiatris…
