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Why do we go to "King Lear" - or, for that matter, any play by Shakespeare - when we could stay home and read it, which has the advantage of letting us look up difficult words or phrases in …
Book Review: Radio star Jonathan Schwartz recalls his sometimes glorious youth
Lewis Black is taking his outrage on the road, with a stop tomorrow night at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. The two shows, 7 and 10, will be taped for an upcoming HBO special.
Emotional tug of this 'Fiddler' makes it a match for the original
The new PBS biography "Judy Garland: By Myself," is riveting because of the film footage presented as part of the documentary.
In the five years before his classic drama "A Streetcar Named Desire" was produced in 1947, Tennessee Williams went through many changes of heart about the two main characters.
Mary J. Blige takes her first step on drama stage
Although A.R. Gurney's "Big Bill" is about one of the most important tennis players of the 20th century, Bill Tilden, who happened to be homosexual, Gurney has a deeper focus.
9:00 p.m. (CBS) "Hack." One of my favorite actresses, Jane Krakowski, guest-stars, in an episode of "Hack" that's essentially an extended flashback - and casts her as a femme fatale from, an…
WARNING: this review opens by giving away the ending of another play, "The Stendhal Syndrome."
Before Broadway meets Bollywood in April with the India-set musical "Bombay Dreams," a new company is giving New York audiences a taste of South Asian theater.
A ground-floor storefront looking onto 42nd St. has been transformed into a hotbed of underground theater, music and art.
And tickets for the events never exceed $10.
Actress Regina Taylor doesn't mind that someone else is playing the lead in the Broadway drama "Drowning Crow."
She's perfectly content with being the play's author.
Omar Epps plays a boxer in his new movie - and he's ready to rumble with P. Diddy.
About acting, that is.
The Brooklyn native thinks that Sean Combs' upcoming Broadway debut as the lead in "A Raisin in the Sun" in April won't be a knockout.
'Roof's' Yente change
Playwright and performer Sarah Jones fills the 45 Bleecker Street Theatre with the voices of New York and beyond in her new one-woman show, "bridge and tunnel."
For Ralph Macchio, playing an art historian in the Off-Broadway play "Magic Hands Freddy" helps prove he's not a kid anymore.
The Karate Kid, to be exact.
Hundreds of women filled Harlem's Apollo Theater two years ago to hear Rosie Perez, Salma Hayek and other celebrities perform "The Vagina Monologues."
Now that event - and other versions of Eve Ensler's provocative play - will get a national audience.
Apparently Terrence McNally, rummaging in an old trunk, came across some plays he wrote as a horny teenager. They have been packaged under the title "The Stendhal Syndrome" and are what you …
After a decidedly mixed season last year, City Center Encores! got off to a great start Thursday night with a smashing revival of Cole Porter's "Can-Can," featuring a triumphant performance …
Toward the end of "They Wrote That?", Cynthia Weil looks on lovingly as her husband, Barry Mann, at the piano, sings "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp)."
Aquila's "Agamemnon" has some interesting ideas, but it does not plumb the play's tragic depths.
