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David T. Little's "Dog Days" wastes no time: A taut libretto and varied, original music deliver its grim story like a punch in the stomach.
One of Brian Friel's best plays gets its first professional staging in New York since the play premiered on Broadway in 1968.
Besides prepping for an album release and concert dates at the Barclays Center in early October, Barbra Streisand was getting the word out about the issue of women and heart disease.
Jessica Molaskey, a Broadway actress and singer, and her husband, singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli, own a tiny, 1,100-square-foot cabin perched at the top of two grassy acres that slope …
Wisconsin's American Players Theatre has wisely opted to use its Touchstone Theatre to broaden its repertory with modern fare. This season's offerings include David Hare's "Skylight" and Tom…
Charlie Chaplin grins from a giant, grainy screen in his trademark hat and oversized pants while the audience finds their seats at the new Broadway musical about the silent screen legend. Pe…
From Shakespeare to Streisand, Aussie bars to piano stars, fall offers something for everyone.
The autumn theater season is fizzing in London and plays are opening every night"with new productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen this week alone.
At a recent performance of "Evita," costume designer Emilio Sosa spent as much time looking at the working-class chorus as he did Eva Peron's glamourous gowns. Some shows, he said, need cost…
Plus, "Dead Accounts," with Katie Holmes, "Golden Age" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."
Charlie Chaplin built his legacy in the era before his fans could hear his voice. So how did the creators of "Chaplin: The Musical" refashion his story for a 21st-century musical?
In most lives, absurdity and sorrow are woven together too tightly to be teased apart"and it is comedy, not tragedy, that illustrates that fact most fully.
Actor Adam Chanler-Berat sees Mike Bartlett's Olivier Award-winning "The Cockfight Play," directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke at 42nd Street.
When Michael Feinstein announced earlier this week that he was hired to conduct the Pasadena Pops, some in the city wondered if it spelled the end of his beloved Midtown supper club. We spok…
Manipulative "cop" is worth hanging up on, while the charming Frank Langella can't enliven "Robot & Frank," and there are no heroes in "Little White Lies."
Federal authorities accused an aspiring Hollywood actor of threatening the families of several wealthy individuals, including film executive Harvey Weinstein.
The 16th annual Fringe Festival, which runs through Sunday, offers shows in more than 20 venues"some of which present as many as six different shows every day. So we spent a day at the Here …
We chat with comedian Mike Birbiglia and his new dramatic film, "Sleepwalk With Me," which chronicles his dangerous habit of enacting his dreams while still asleep. To help with some of the …
Paul Giamatti on portraying characters from both sides of Wall Street and working with David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson.
Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Produce 'Sleepwalk With Me'.
With its soaring performers and colorful sets, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" would seem like a good choice for the deaf. So we brought Russell Harvard, the hearing-impaired actor currently…
The Public Theater's outdoor revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" is a fine idea on paper, but its execution falls flat.
Cherry Grove and the Pines, two hamlets Fire Island, are historically known as gay vacation getaways"less so as destinations for contemporary art. A handful of New York City-based curators a…
Stephen Shelley, an actor and director who lives in Brooklyn, had just wrapped up a self-produced staging of "Medea" last year when he realized there was nowhere else to go with it. So he de…
We traveled to the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah, where the composer Jeanine Tesori attended a workshop for "Africa Kills Her Sun," about corruption and the abuse of power in contem…
