The Fringe Festival ended two days earlier than planned because of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out the closing night party, and the last-second chance to see shows with big buzz. Eighteen…
Lea Michele Sarfati was born a quarter-century ago today, August 29, 1986. As Lea Michele, she debuted on Broadway at age eight as Young Cosette in Les Miserables, and subsequently had roles…
After the flood of brilliant pre-show publicity"other shows on the Rialto shut down in anticipation of its arrival"Hurricane Irene turned out to be far less powerful a production than all pr…
OK, yes, we first see the creator of the Spider-Man musical Julie Taymor " renamed Julie Paymore (get it?) " in a straitjacket and mask a la Hannibal the Cannibal in "Silence of the Lambs." …
The two site-specific plays that make up "HotelMotel" take place around a bed in a back parlor of The Gershwin Hotel, which is right next door to the Museum of Sex, and that seems an especia…
Three shows in New York explicitly describe themselves as both theater pieces and as circus acts: "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark," Cirque de Soleil's "Zarkana," and, now, "Traces," which com…
Like the motorcyclists who tattoo Harley-Davidson onto their arms, some theatergoers treat "Rent" as an indelible part of their lives, something that has become almost sacred. This may help …
The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
The first official photograph of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman in “The Dark Knight Rises” comes with a question: Is Catwoman some kind of rite of passage for good actresses (Halle Be…
The 2011 New York Innovative Theater Award nominees, announced August 1st, include 166 individual artists, 55 different productions and 45 Off-Off-Broadway theater companies. Winners will be…
The replica of the Stratford-upon-Avon theater that the Royal Shakespeare Company has built inside the Park Avenue Armory looks from the outside like the bottom half of a rocket ship, which …
I saw "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2" on the same day as Shakespeare in the Park’s "All's Well That Ends Well" and was struck by their similarities: Both are dark, both …
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
The Broadway shows announced so far for Fall, 2011, include a revival of a Stephen Sondheim musical, and the debut of a new Woody Allen play; a play imagining the night before Martin Luther …
Tyne Daly has said she didn't think she was a fit to play the great and tragic opera diva Maria Callas, when playwright Terrence McNally asked her to take on the role in the current revival …
According to the New York Times, two years ago, inmates in California had access to opportunities in the arts, activities that probably reduced recidivism. Then, there was an arts coor…
Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
Speaking before Harvard's Secret Court investigating the crime and embarrassment of homosexuality on campus, an undergraduate named Stanley Gilkey explains that the only reason he associated…
At the beginning of the second act of Spider-Man 2.0, the evil Green Goblin explains how he was transformed from scientist Norman Osborne to genetic mutant: It took weeks and cost $65 millio…
“The Book of Mormon” has won the 2011 Tony for Best Musical and eight other awards, and “War Horse” has won for best play, and in four other categories, in a ceremony…
Below is the list of winners for the 2011 Tony Awards, so far. (Winners will be indicated, as they are announced throughout the evening, in bold face with *). (Scroll to the bottom for early…
Even in his most popular work, Tennessee Williams offered a hint of what the New York Times recently called (in an editorial about Anthony Weiner) the "profoundly squalid and offensive." It …
Each year at the Tony Awards, the celebration halts for a few minutes to pay tribute to the artists we've lost during the year, actors, directors, designers, producers. This year, the obits …
"Lysistrata Jones," a new musical being staged in a church gymnasium, should be very annoying. It takes Aristophanes' bawdy anti-war comedy out of Greece and turns it into "Grease." The sold…
You don't have to share a gene pool to be someone's kid. He doesn't have to adopt you. Hell, he doesn't even have to know who you are. I hadn't met Robert Brustein when he started shaping th…