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Don't let "The Homecoming" get lost in the post-strike tumble of pulse-racing new family dramas.
In the hands of director Les Waters, a razor-sharp design team and an attractively eccentric but focused cast, Harrison's teasing, rapturous chamber opera of a play spins and crackles like a…
"Yellow Face" - the smart and delightful and scary new quasi-mock-autobiographical docudrama that opened last night - expands assumptions about race into danger zones first opened by Papp's …
We suspect that Twain, bankrupt at 63 and depressed by the death of his daughter, was going for more than goofy humor here. He wondered why artists had to die in order to succeed. We're forc…
The production, meticulously directed by McPherson, offers many varieties of this funny/sad, cuddly/ tragic style in virtuosic abundance. Everyone seated around me at a recent preview appear…
Tony winners from two generations - Carol Lawrence (Maria in "West Side Story") and Donna McKechnie (Cassie in "A Chorus Line") - star with a newcomer whose character breaks a leg, literally…
"The Farnsworth Invention" - which finally opened at the Music Box Theatre last night after the prolonged delays of the Broadway strike - is vintage Sorkin and crackling prime-time theater.
In its fifth New York production in less than a decade, "Cymbeline" can no longer be described as one of Shakespeare's little-known works. So we know it now. What we don't know is why the am…
"We had a warning from our physical therapist -- don't let the adrenalin kill you," David Hyde Pierce said Thursday at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where the cast of "Curtains" was readying a …
With a recorded score by George Kramer, narration by Al Roker and character voices by John Cullum, Christopher Plummer and Carole Shelley, "Mooseltoe" is the perfect vehicle for grandparents…
If "Rag and Bone" is often diverting and disarming, it's hard to ignore the story problems we're being diverted from, and the theatrical hokum we're being disarmed against.
What lifts the 85-minute portrait from the little-old-lady genre, right from the start, is the very presence of Elizabeth Franz as the aging widow.
