"Beauty and the Beast," Disney's first Broadway hit musical, gets the full Broadway-scale treatment on Long Island by Gateway Playhouse. In the process, artistic director Robin Joy Allan may…
How I wish I could love the show. I wish I didn't feel that I was being manipulated by long-struggling talented people on a guilt trip. Most of all, considering the risk, I wish the offbeat …
After a weekend spent careening around the demented funhouse of two Christopher Durang revivals, I feel giddy with the joy of contradictory emotions: strong but needy women, big boys who do …
The songs, by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, still include such happy standards as "Whatever Lola Wants" and "(You Gotta Have) Heart." Fosse's dances for the team have heart. The rest is a da…
Southampton's Avram Theater back in business
This updated "Hamlet" (on a concrete, institutional-looking set) is busy with raucous action and sound effects, but short on the quiet wonders of introspection.
It is a one-note play, loose and inconclusive. But the note is warm and rich and shimmering with the vibrance of Albee's meticulous writing.
Stories spill out of Conor McPherson the way we'd like to imagine that magical spells come from wizards - overflowing with transformative changes, dark romance and a disquieting sense of los…