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Photos: Cast of "Little Women" show off season's hottest looks.
It's "Hair." It's here. Get used to it. "Hair," which opened indoors at Broadway prices last night after a smash last summer, free in Central Park, has settled its sweet, raucous and powerfu…
Oh, dear. As if the MTA didn't have enough trouble, here comes "Happiness" - Susan Stroman's disappointing new musical about nine New Yorkers stuck in a subway car.
A memorial service is scheduled Saturday for Drummond Erskine of Cold Spring Harbor, a longtime character actor best known in recent years for cameo TV appearances that included a running ga…
This inspired revival of Eugene Ionesco's seldom-seen 1962 absurdist tragicomedy has been conceived as the unlikely love child of a fractured fairy tale and "King Lear."
Not to belabor the bafflements, but how is it that director Jack O'Brien - with Tony achievements as diverse as "Hairspray" and "Henry IV" - lavished his entire magnificent creative team fro…
It's a jungle up there. What fun. The two middle-aged couples in the artsy-stark Brooklyn town house only appear to be civilized parents discussing a playground fight between their 11-year-…
The key word is "mainly."
The much-anticipated rethinking of "West Side Story" is neither revelation nor vandalism. It is still "West Side Story," with those jazzy, jagged, gloriously (and shamelessly) sentimental Leonard Bernstein songs and (most of) Stephen Sondheim's swaggering, dazzling lyrics.
In other words, it's still a wonderful show.
Angela Lansbury is delicious, but it's odd that director Michael Blakemore does not locate more of the luxurious, brittle sheen and the high-style physical humor in this farce about a marrie…
A reconsideration? Is something wrong with the original - the one with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by the then unknown Stephen Sondheim, book by Arthur Laurents and throbbing overall …
The result is a strained, pseudo-serious, intellectually scattershot project that makes us appreciate all the pitfalls that "Wit" (about a dying scholar with intimacy issues) and "Amadeus" (…
