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Like many people on that Saturday after the presidential inauguration, I saw a woman walking to a demonstration carrying a peace sign.
He's not worried. He is happy. Jevon McFerrin has grown up listening to the upbeat lyrics of his father's Grammy-winning song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy," but the irresistible earworm tune coul…
We now know that Broadway promises the biggest season in recent memory -- 23 openings -- as well as one of the most interesting. But look at this highly selective list of Off-Broadway offeri…
In the beginning, there was "Jitney." It was 1979, years before August Wilson became justifiably revered for his great 10-play Century Cycle, and decades before "Fences," which, thanks to De…
No matter how anxious you might be about the weekend weather forecast -- flights south, ski trips, seasonal affective disorder -- Melissa Anelli probably has you beat.
It would be possible -- and extremely pleasurable -- to spend most of the three hours at "The Present" just watching Cate Blanchett. Here she is playing the seemingly confident widow Anna on…
Broadway's news between Christmas and the New Year was, as the old-time trade publications still like to say, boffo. It was the highest-grossing week in history -- $49.7 million. And there w…
It is a time for farewells on Broadway -- big time. From New Year's Eve until the end of January, the casts and crews of 13 productions have been packing up the greasepaint and wondering wha…
Samuel Beckett did not seem to be a man who needed protection. With his towering bird-of-prey presence and his dead-on gaze into life's inevitable abyss, surely the Nobel Prize winning autho…
The money goes to the nonprofit Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Lin-Manuel Miranda has set up a Prizeo sweepstakes to win a pair of tickets to all three "Hamilton" productions in New York, Chicago and San Francisco while contributing to Planned Parenthoo…
Imagine the scene. You are having a quiet day in your rundown but tidy bungalow in the depressed Hill District in Pittsburgh when the doorbell rings. There stands Denzel Washington, who shak…
The biggest little event of the fall season is no star-driven gimmick. The "Othello" that stars David Oyelowo and Daniel Craig at the 199-seat New York Theatre Workshop is inspired, blazingl…
"In Transit," the last new Broadway musical of the fall season, is supposed to be set underground in the New York subway system. But the place is so sanitized, so sparkly clean that the equa…
What a moody, strange enchantment is "The Band's Visit." This achingly wonderful new chamber musical, based on the 2007 film of the same name, transports us to a tiny Israeli town where an E…
Have you ever wondered what kind of people write letters to advice columnists and who those anonymous would-be therapists might be?
Edward Albee -- the ferocious playwright and complicated, tender man -- was celebrated Tuesday by writers, actors, directors, producers and friends at a moving memorial at the August Wilson …
Richard Greenberg's rich, intentionally untidy new play, "The Babylon Line," begins with the words "the end." But then, of course, it cannot just end there.
"Dear Evan Hansen" arrives on Broadway with "the next big thing" written all over it -- and deservedly so.
The unexpected attraction of tiny audiences continues in odd and interesting ways.
"A Bronx Tale: The New Musical," Chazz Palminteri's semi-autobiographical theatrical coming-of-age story, has been told and retold so many times that it has the ritualized feel of a folk myt…
The first thing to know about "Ride the Cyclone" is that it's a goofy, extravagant, bad-taste musical comedy about teenagers who have died in a roller-coaster accident. If that suggests a ma…
Chalk up another few records for "Hamilton," which grossed a historic $3.3 million over Thanksgiving week.
Until now, "Wicked" held the record at $3.2 million.
New York can't resist getting in the mood for the holidays, no matter what world politics tell us, and the arts and entertainment universe is no exception. Here are some familiar events, plu…
