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David Bianculli: With much more reverence than perspective, Sunday's two-hour Bravo documentary on the Desilu TV and movie studio tracks the rise and fall of the Hollywood company that gave …
Divahood does not a princess make. Nor do this summer's hottest Chanel shades nonchalantly pushed back on long, ponytailed hair. Or diamond-studded ears, twinkly piercings all in a row. Or b…
If you do a one-person show based on literary characters like Mark Twain or Emily Dickinson, you have an excellent point in your favor. If, however, you impersonate the more recently decease…
From a sendup of "Cats" to a black comedy about a gay couple, the New York International Fringe Festival played out in theaters all over the West Village.
Woodie King Jr. knows better than most where modern black theater came from.
But he doesn't know where it will go next - or where it can go.
For some struggling Latino theater performers, being in the Fringe is a lot better than being on the fringe. There are more Hispanic-themed productions than ever at this year's Fringe Festiv…
Kathy Brier has one life to live, but two jobs to juggle.
And things are about to get busy.
"Hairspray" leading lady Marissa Jaret Winokur left the hit musical Sunday to make a TV movie.
But it's not a Broadway brushoff - just a temporary comb-out.
Bialystock & Bloom have struck the mother lode.
The expected return of Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick to "The Producers" will make them the highest-paid actors in Broadway history, industry sources predicted yesterday.
Pledge drive hits the right note at last
The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre hits the road again.
Reports that the musical's original Bialystock and Bloom would come back to goose-step up the box office in January was enough to draw crowds to the St. James Theater long before the 10 a.m. opening.
They were disappointed.
Downtown theater fest is getting bigger and a bit more mainstream
Call it puppet love.
Like balloon animals, puppets were once the province of children's birthday parties. But now they're showing up in theaters all over the city to amuse, teach, titillate and shock grownups.
Does anybody really care whether Melanie Griffith can sing and dance? I mean, aren't we all happy enough that she's here as Roxie Hart in "Chicago"?
Many years ago, Irving Berlin wrote, "Say it with music." "Avenue Q," the beguiling and zany new musical that has moved to Broadway from the Vineyard Theatre, might be subtitled "Say it with…
Bob Hope, the most white-bread of comedians, made one of his early forays into show business in blackface.
A Tony winner for her surprise Broadway hit "Movin' Out," Tharp is planning a revival of her '60s piece "The 100s" for the Evening Stars Music and Dance Festival performance in Battery Park …
LONDON - The reigning king of musical theater writers is recrafting the book for the British show "Bombay Dreams" to make the Bollywood love story sing for Broadway when it arrives next year.
'Big River," the 1985 musical version of Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn," with a score by Roger Miller, was probably not in need of a revival, but the revival it has been given is extremely …
Theatreworks USA has presented children's theater for many years. This year they chose "The Summer of the Swans," based on the award-winning book. The only thing this show prepares young aud…
One-person shows about famous people are problematic because they have to convey a certain amount of information, and it is rarely convincing to hear the subject tell a roomful of strangers …
If you share my conviction that the economic health of New York is related to the quality of casting of "The Producers," you will be pleased to know that my own prognosis for the city is ext…
The young stars of Todd Graff's movie musical strike a chord
