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American girls sold as sex slaves! A coven of witches at a black Mass! It's the shocking but not true stuff of clever spoof "shockumentary" "Mondo Drama."
You don't have to know who Ruth Wallis is to appreciate her "Boobs."
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A potentially explosive premise ends up fizzling in "Rain Dance," Lanford Wilson's talky drama about the dawning of the atomic age.
Avant-garde playwright Mac Wellman received a lifetime achievement Obie Award last night while dozens of Off-Broadway productions were recognized by the Village Voice.
To bee or not to bee is just one of several philosophical questions pondered by the befuddled hero of "Humble Boy," an uneven comedy-drama by British playwright Charlotte Jones. The play bor…
'Hairspray," the musical starring Harvey Fierstein in drag, was the big winner last night when the Drama Desk gave out its awards.
The cast of "Les Misérables" bid au revoir to Broadway last night after a 16-year run and more than $410 million in ticket sales.
Twyla Tharp's "Movin' Out" swept the 2003 TDF/Fred Astaire Dance Awards.
A musical revue celebrates the bawdy body of work of Ruth Wallis
In his debut as a theater director, Allen has prodded a marvelous cast to get the maximum mileage out of the humor.
When "To Kill a Mockingbird" premiered in 1962, Seventeen magazine named it "movie of the month." But the film's studio, Universal Pictures, thought the movie would flop.
Brenda (Shannon) Greene may have helped kill the last desperate days of disco when her 1983 single "Let the Music Play" fed house beats to ravenous turntables everywhere, but the dance icon …
The Latino-themed play "Icarus & Aria" returns to New York this month with the same eclectic blend of literary influences that attracted Fringe Festival audiences six years ago.
Commuting between heaven and earth can take its toll on a person, even when he's Santo Loquasto.
Fifty years ago, if you saw the title "American Dreams: Lost and Found" on a marquee, you would have expected an inspirational evening. Nowadays, you know just as certainly that such a title…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has voted Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out" as best play of the 2002-03 season.
Given how deeply embedded Lerner and Loewe's "Camelot" is in the national consciousness, it's surprising how uneven it is.
In recent years the only compensation for the agony and expense of mounting a Broadway show is that you are likely to get some Tony nominations, which, whatever else happens, you can regard …
If any New Yorker deserves to be called an "institution" it is Bobby Short, who just began his 35th year as the "saloon singer" at the Cafe Carlyle.
'Kiki & Herb: Coup de Theatre," the latest production starring the fictional cabaret duo with the devoted cult following, is tacky, trashy and tasteless.
Dorothy Allison's best-selling 1999 novel "Cavedweller" makes a rocky transition to the stage in this static adaptation by playwright Kate Moira Ryan. "Cavedweller" explores the struggles of…
Parker's trademark acerbic wit is evident throughout this well-acted revival by the Peccadillo Theater Company, which enlivens a dated plot about lonely women whose existence is defined by t…
At last, PBS generates a pledge special that rewards rather than insults its core audience.
The decade that gave the world polyester leisure suits, the Village People and running naked in public gets a gentle skewering in "Streakin'!," a charming musical-comedy revue about the 1970…
