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The Broadway stage has been set this season for social dramas with big messages
Despite the dedication of a fine cast, including Faith Prince, Tom Wopat and author Harvey Fierstein, this is a colorless little piece of '50s social realism about a Bronx family that isn't …
There isn't much new in "The New Century," the four gay-identity comic sketches by Paul Rudnick that the Lincoln Center Theater opened last night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse.
On the other hand, the playwright has such a quick wit, cheerful irreverence and outlandishly comfortable sensibility that we - or, at least, I - happily overlook the familiarity of his subjects and his inability here to write anything like a plausible ending.
"The Little Flower of East Orange" may not grow to the heights it could, but it blooms defiantly, and ultimately cheeringly, through the cracks in the city sidewalk.
It's prime season for new productions to hit Broadway - in time for tourists and Tony nominations
Harvey Fierstein feels genuine affection again for a most human musical
The revival, which opened last night at the Lincoln Center Theater, is as heartfelt as it is visually spectacular, as seriously musical as it is grand entertainment.
Is such storytelling enough? Can merely personalizing America's marginalized political history advance the story enough to separate action-cartoons from acts of conscience? I'm afraid not.
Unfortunately, the productions, directed by the playwright, lack the bracing exactitude of his thought and language. In contrast to the haunting precision of recent Albee revivals, including…
And yet ... "Gypsy" makes a visceral connection to all our mothers who were "born too early and started too late." Jerome Robbins' iconic choreography still tells lifetimes of stories in the…
Nelson - arguably the most thoughtful and prolific of America's underappreciated playwrights - has seduced six remarkable actors into this daunting low-profile challenge with the late-burnin…
Broadway's first Latino musical created by Latinos is a big, pulsing power-surge of a show.
