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Despite its conventional sets and hokey lighting effects, Debbie Allen has directed a shimmering ensemble that honors America's great poet of bruised humanity.
"It was such a cutting-edge theater," says actress Lainie Kazan, a 1960 Hofstra graduate who starred with classmate Francis Ford Coppola in "Of Thee I Sing," the first musical staged at the …
Eternal quirkiness and metaphysical whimsy have returned to New York in "Dead Man's Cell Phone," the third Sarah Ruhl play to receive a major Off-Broadway premiere in the past 18 months. How…
What's important is that the thing - part indie-rock concert, part boho-art project, part coming-of-age black-identity crisis, part hipster travelogue - is all smart and all enjoyable and al…
"Adding Machine" is grim, of course, but in the drollest possible way. The intense 90-minute show, which just won a wheelbarrow of awards in Chicago for Evanston's Next Theatre Company, mana…
Hey, it's not dead yet. In the words of one of the supremely goofy bad-taste delights from "Monty Python's Spamalot," the musical may be approaching its third year at the Shubert Theatre. Bu…
Fear not. It's still magic.
Two years ago LaKisha Jones was working as a bank teller in Maryland. These days, the only money notes she deals with are the ones she's been belting out eight times a week in Broadway's "Th…
Rupert Goold's justly celebrated London production is so rich in smart and high-concept daring that a hacksaw here, or a blood-pouring faucet there, is just a sideshow of the riveting big-pi…
I wish Turner had dug deeper for the sadness under the veneer of offbeat humor and women on the goofy edge of criminal insanity. But the cast appears to be having a swell time - which, despi…
The ambitious Next to Normal is a musical psychodrama with its own serious multiple-personality disorder.
Well, we're not likely to see this one all over town. Say what you will about "The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (Or the Friends of Dr. Rushower)," the thing is an original.
How sad that there isn't far more to say.
How can adult children rebel against their progressive baby-boomer parents? If theater imports from London are to be believed these days, the best way to really infuriate the folks is to get…
In corniest show-biz tradition, Ebersole was terrific - dramatically and vocally - as the aging actress overshadowed by the ambitious young Eve Harrington (Erin Davie). Almost as newsworthy …
The modest production, directed with an admirable lack of sensationalism by Pippin Parker, lays out the stories of three Iraqis and their Yank supervisor - all good people crushed by the col…
Despite the lively, engrossing, substantial script and eight passionate actors, the production lacks the single quality that has always run through Leigh's restlessly varied projects: authen…
The rechristened Long Island High School for the Arts no longer wants to be a 'best-kept secret'
