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Is there no business in show business? Does anybody know?
Britney who? Liza Minnelli is not having a comeback as much as an actual resurrection on Broadway in "Liza's at the Palace...!," a slick and exuberant time-capsule that opened last night in …
With all the chatter about Broadway - the openings, the closings, the economy - it is too easy to let the best of Off-Broadway fall between the cracks.
White Christmas is a reasonable facsimile of what it's meant to be—a manipulation of the sentimental holiday marketplace that does not disturb the seasonal equilibrium with a bubble of original thought.
Foote - 92 and definitely still counting - keeps adding to his remarkable stack of more than 60 intricately naturalistic scripts.
In fact, the 100-minute chamber musical is small and sweet and relatively slight. Despite the themes of greed and the betrayals and that ol' demon cocaine, "Road Show" is that rare creature …
Broadway's unofficial David Mamet festival and revival smack-down continued last night with an enjoyable if not revelatory "American Buffalo."
Broadway's long, dark, dry spell of big, smart, smash musicals is officially over. "Billy Elliot," the 2005 London adaptation of the 2000 movie, finally arrived in a production as seriously …
The serious comedy, which Mike Nichols was originally rumored to be staging on Broadway before the election, opened instead at Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theatre Company as a spy-versus-spy-ver…
The play, which Robert Altman turned into a gripping film in 1984, remains a powerful, if a bit predictable, link between racism and homophobia at home and the carnage on faraway battlefield…
Trent Kowalik of Wantagh bounds into New York, where he puts his best feet forward as the star of 'Billy Elliot'
On the town with a larger-than-life celebration of the late Leonard Bernstein's 90th birthday
Speaking of mavericks, director Peter Brook is back with another of his astonishing yet simple, radical but accessible and riveting experiments in basic storytelling.
"Romantic Poetry," which Manhattan Theatre Club opened last night at the same space where "Doubt" had its premiere, is a terrible show - incoherent, forced and jauntily oblivious to the dept…
While the star-struck are gazing at Daniel Radcliffe ("Equus") and Katie Holmes ("All My Sons"), why not seek out some farther-flung constellations Off-Broadway...
