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February is the cruelest month - for Broadway. Three shows - the musical "Never Gonna Dance," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Anna in the Tropics" and the drama "The Retreat From Moscow" - …
Playwright Nilo Cruz has yet to sort his feelings over the imminent demise of his Broadway show "Anna in the Tropics." He has been too busy working on two new plays that were commissioned as…
Patti LuPone returns to the New York stage tonight in the City Center Encores! production of "Can-Can." The last time she acted in a Broadway musical was 1987, when she starred in "Anything …
Several of the songs included in "Broadway by the Year: The Broadway Musicals of 1926" were sung without amplification - and that's reason enough to rejoice in this Town Hall series, which b…
More than a hundred years have passed since New York's growing community of black musicians got tired of waiting for Musicians Local 340 to admit colored folks.
'One Life to Live' to 'Hairspray'... 24 hours in the life of Kathy Brier
For $2, passengers on the A train can witness the birth pangs of theater pieces featuring talent from every socio-economic class that makes New York, well, New York.
Paul Rudnick seems to have discovered Richard Wagner. Is this a good thing? It may be too soon to tell.
Tradition!
Alfred Molina has one that is weird and wet.
Raul Arrieta went from unknown theater actor in Mexico to internationally known soap opera star. But he never expected it would lead to a major role in an Off-Broadway play, too.
Many years before he became President Bartlett's aide Charlie on "The West Wing," Dule Hill was watching TV and saw Gregory Hines dance. Some months later he was introduced to Hines.
Broadway's troubled season has claimed two more victims.
Peter Cincotti will play American Songbook series.
Will droll crooner with '40s style be pop's next phenom?
Tony LoBianco, who also has done a one-man show about La Guardia, "Hizzoner," plays the title role here. He captures the irascibility and feistiness of the character beautifully.
Many centuries ago, the word "mystery" referred to a craft guild. The medieval Mystery Plays were Bible stories written and performed by members of a guild.
70 ago this Monday, Sidney Cohen and Morris Sussman opened the 125th St. Apollo, "The Finest Theater in Harlem," with a show that included Ralph Cooper, Benny Carter, Aida Ward and 16 "Gorge…
Dancer had a leg up on field
The story of the lower East Side just couldn't be contained in one evening, so The Metropolitan Playhouse has divided "East Side Story" into two pieces.
Few Broadway scores are as familiar as Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1964 "Fiddler on the Roof." But when the revival starring Alfred Molina as Tevye begins previews at the Minskoff on Fr…
George Balanchine and Buster Keaton are not names you generally see together.
But they have inspired Broadway choreographer Susan Stroman's first full-length ballet.
Rosie O'Donnell was defiant a day after announcing her Broadway musical, "Taboo," would close, leaving open the possibility the show could still go on.
"The tickets are down to $50," O'Donnell told the Daily News. "If we could fill the house at $50 a seat, I would run it forever. But people have to show up."
