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This is an edgy, gimmicky, nouveau musical wrapped in a gaudily immersive, dinner theater atmosphere; "an electropop opera ripped from a slice of <em>War and Peace</em>,&quo…
The situation facing the Nashville Symphony is sad and frustrating. Unfortunately, it is also not atypical. Symphony officials recently announced that it would default on the bonds for its p…
Wouldn't it be hysterical to mix the romantic world of Bollywood musicals of the 1950s with the farcical world of Marx Brothers-like comedies of the 1930s?
Call it "interactive." Call it "immersive." Call it whatever contemporary term you will. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet...
If you like theater and you like politics, you're going to jump at the chance to see theater about politics, Then get...
Byrne has joined with the Public's Oskar Eustis and an altogether impressive production team to turn <em>Here Lies Love</em> into -- what? A musical? A disco musical? A theatric…
Every once in a while I attend a performance that is so remarkable that I forget about ticket sales, fundraising, budget cutting or any other aspect of my job. A recent performance of Le Cor…
Adapting or reviving a classic work is fraught with peril. Two shows and two films that got it right, and what rules they obeyed along the way.
The downside and lure of solo shows, from Holland Taylor's Ann to Megan Hilty's Joe's Pub turn.
Perhaps it's this reviewer's imagination, but it seems that more than the usual number of plays set in the workplace are...
Let's consider, shall we, some of The Guilt Trip's cinematic mother-son precursors, and how their various mammeles stack up on the scale of believability.
The single most spectacular dance number on view at the moment -- and it won't be for long; get there fast -- erupts in the second act of On Your Toes, the current Encores! series entry at C…
Our Broadway production of Lyle Kessler's Orphans will close on Sunday, May 19th, well in advance of its scheduled end-of-run on June 30th. I have not acted in a legit show on Broadway since…
"The clock is ticking," is not necessarily a phrase a feminist writer likes to hear, but when discussing the upcoming production of <em>'night, Mother</em>, an exceptio…
"The clock is ticking," is not necessarily a phrase a feminist writer likes to hear, but when discussing the upcoming production of 'night, Mother, an exception can be made. In thi…
Just as William Shakespeare did with his history plays, Friedrich Schiller did with Mary Stuart and others have done...
George Balanchine once said, "See the music, hear the dance." Perhaps Balanchine's successor, Peter Martins, can add, "See the music, hear the dance, Instagram the dogs."
This multiplier effect has been discussed for decades. We know that arts organizations are critical for local restaurants, parking, taxis, hotels, etc. Yet it is equally clear that the eco…
Harvey Fierstein was wearing kinky running shoes by New Balance because, according to him, "I have fat feet."
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The New York City Ballet was in residence at the Kennedy Center recently. I stopped by rehearsal on the afternoon...
Numerous critics described The Trunch's appearance in very colorful terms and went out of their way to otherwise paint a picture of the dirt-colored, gold medal-winning child hater.
Let me start with John Logan's I'll Eat You Last and why this column might as well have been titled, "Why Bette Midler Should Receive a Tony Nomination."
In Chicago, Fosse had Fred Ebb and John Kander explain the power of giving 'em the old razzle-dazzle, and Diane Paulus has taken that dictum to heart with her American Repertory Theater prod…
Tuning into the gossip the Divine Miss M spews jubilantly as another Divine Miss M is such fun it hardly matters that five minutes after the romp ends, much of the dirt dished with such five…
What Nikos Kazantzakis did to de-sanctify Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ, Colm Toibin has done for the Madonna in The Testament of Mary -- with, predictably, the some outraged respon…
