With a lineup that covers everything from Bloomberg to Gutenberg, the New York Musical Theatre Festival could be the big break for offbeat musicals
There's at least one good reason to check out tonight's "Justice," and pretty much only one. Victor Garber. Is there life after "Alias" or a string of forgettable shows and roles that will m…
It's hard to escape Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's "La Cage aux Folles."
By all rights, the August Wilson festival at the Signature Theatre Company should not have opened last night with a revival of Seven Guitars.
I'm not clear on the physics, but a wormhole just opened off Times Square, above a Duane Reade drugstore and behind a bottle of iced tea as big as an oildrum.
It's easy to imagine Charles Darwin spinning in his grave as Creationism, in the guise of Intelligent Design, rises up to challenge his theory of evolution once again. A little too easy.
Meryl Streep wears an officer's cap at a rakish tilt throughout most of Mother Courage and Her Children, the breathlessly-anticipated revival of Bertolt Brecht's anti-war, anti-business masterwork that the Public Theater opened last night as part of its free festival in Central Park. We really miss the babushka.
This is an uneven, mostly good-natured, handsomely produced evening of sketches, vaudeville bits and "Forbidden Broadway"-type spoofs that saves its freshest material for late in the nonstop…
Kiki & Herb, the parody lounge act who turn several generations of pop music into alternately screechy and treacly cabaret, are an acquired taste.
Martin Short's past isn't the stuff of tabloids, but he does turn tragedy into comedy for 'Fame Becomes Me,' his one-man (with music and a cast of five) show
Gurney, an expert on the subject, has shown so much more about more before.
FringeNYC, the largest multi-arts festival in North America, is back and kinkier than ever
Lest we are lulled into believing that "Jersey Boys" made the world safe for the jukebox musical, here comes "Shout! The Mod Musical." As unappealing as its cringe of a title and far more an…
"Hurray for life! Viva la vida!" It's a bold exclamation for a woman who, after contracting polio at age 6 and being run over by a trolley at 14, finds herself addicted to painkillers and lo…
It is hard to imagine a more passionate, knowledgeable, heroic overview than "DruidSynge," the epic marathon that kicked off the Lincoln Center Festival on Monday.