Robert Bolt's "A Man for All Seasons," which opened last night at the Roundabout's American Airlines Theatre, is like a big, juicy dinner from the days before anybody worried about fat, or k…
Matthew Cossolotto loves Shakespeare.
Make that "Shakespeare."
Although Brown is obviously comfortable in the musical theater medium, and though he operates at a high level of musical sophistication, the composer resists writing tunes that really take off melodically.
He comes perhaps as close as he ever has here, and yet there still isn't a melody you'll remember five minutes after the final blackout.
The musical has its share of talent from the Lower Hudson Valley...
The word for the new production of "The Seagull" on Broadway is lucid.
That's a trickier accomplishment than you might think.
Kristin Chenoweth is not "a pie person."
Mandy Patinkin is the latest star to try his hand at playing Prospero, in a clean production at the Classic Stage Co.
His performance is an actor's tour de force, that sometimes even lets the audience in on its wonders.
A year ago, theatergoers found a new home for musicals in Westchester: the White Plains Performing Arts Center.
D'Arcy James has calculated that, after a year in the role, he will have spent the equivalent of 27 days getting his makeup applied and removed.
If you loved "Les Miz" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel" on Broadway, you might like "A Tale of Two Cities."
A little.
Playing the larger-than-life, no-nonsense blues singer Bessie Smith off and on for eight years has changed Miche Braden.
As the new executive director of the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College, Wiley Hausam has four venues to fill with music, opera, dance and theater, a task he began contemplating soon…
Not everything is as it seems in "Molly Snyder," a brisk, well-acted and laugh-out-loud comedy directed by Thomas Caruso.
When people told Vickilyn Reynolds that she looked like Hattie McDaniel - the actress who was the first black to win an Academy Award, for "Gone With the Wind" - she didn't take it kindly.
Typically, it's no laughing matter, but Richard Strand's new comedy - "Ten Percent of Molly Snyder," on stage at Stony Point's Penguin Repertory Company through Sept. 7 - takes the DMV drudg…
There was a time in Colin Firth's youth when he regarded the music of ABBA with the same sort of disdain he saved for, say, reading a Jane Austen novel.