Diddy does Broadway by CELIA McGEE
Sean Combs hopes to silence his critics tonight in 'Raisin'
Sean Combs hopes to silence his critics tonight in 'Raisin'
Neil LaBute tackles America's young losers
Tony Kushner's civil-rights-era musical moves uptown
Glittering excess rules in Broadway's new 'Bombay Dreams'
The Worth Street Theater revival, directed by David Esbjornson, finds the power beneath the play's often topical concerns. The play remains unbearably poignant.
The Roundabout's stunning revival is far more elaborate than the 1991 original workshop production at the then-tiny Playwrights Horizons Theater.
Curtains for 2 shows
After 14 years of acting in soaps, Heather Tom thought she'd seen - or done - it all when it comes to sex and monkey business.
Being in a Broadway show convinced her otherwise.
"Between Us" and "Baby."
When Doris Eaton Travis sees Gene Kelly splash through the showers in "Singin' in the Rain," it's like he's singing their song.
Simon Russell Beale is nervous about making his Broadway debut next week in the revival of "Jumpers."
Critics Circle makes picks
Our restaurant critic says: "Chef's Theater" reminds me of "fusion" cooking: It's a great big mishmash of a musical meal. It's part dinner theater, part Vegas lounge act, part cooking class and part shameless merchandising.
Our drama critic says: Every New York restaurant worth its salt, from Katz's to Bouley, is a piece of theater, from the second you are greeted to the moment you leave. That's why the show "Chef's Theater," an attempt to cash in on the current obsession with restaurants, is unnecessary.
Not many theatrical memoirs combine hobo stories with anecdotes about W.H. Auden. But Dale Wasserman's does. Much of "The Impossible Musical" is about Wasserman's best-known work, the libretto for the musical, "Man of La Mancha."
Plus Janis Siegel's new Broadway album.
There is no amplification. Hallelujah!!
The play purports to address serious contemporary issues, but it only uses them as an intellectual patina for a conventional, unsatisfying melodrama.
When Leonard Reed died last week, at the age of 97, he took a lot of history with him.
Viola Davis has used needlework as a weapon before.
Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel" is a deeply mo-ving portrait of Esther, a middle-aged African-American woman who arrives in New York in 1905. Right now, New York has no richer play.
One of Hollywood's most beautiful couples is calling it quits. A rep for John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos confirms to us that they're separating after five years of marriage.
It is always a bit of a surprise when real content appears in pieces of theater, but that has been the case with several recent Off-Broadway efforts. Here are three, including "Sarah, Sarah,…
"Match" is uproariously funny, enthralling theater.
The spring theater season is shaping up as a time of hope and renewal for some of the city's long-standing Latino companies.
Doug Wright was in the middle of directing a reading of a play in Manhattan when he received a call from the Pulitzer Prize committee, telling him he was the drama winner for his one-man sho…