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Oh, dear, what's "Oh, Hello on Broadway" doing on Broadway?
I thought I knew the Broadway schedule between now and the end of the year.
Travis Wall has become a dance celebrity without first starring in a ballet or modern company, or on Broadway. Wall, 29, has done it in front of the camera on reality TV -- specifically, "So…
"Holiday Inn" -- subtitled "The New Irving Berlin Musical" -- has the feel of a holiday perennial that has been returning from storage or been on the road for years. This may well be a good …
It is 15 minutes before curtain at just another midweek performance of Disney's "The Lion King," and people have begun zeroing in on their seats. As we watch them from a high catwalk near th…
What's that whispering behind my left ear? Why is that man seated over on the right making such a racket?
Leave it to Neil LaBute to find a heretofore unknown -- at least to me -- way to express one's love. In "All the Ways to Say I Love You" (LaBute's 10th play for MCC Theater), the chameleonic…
"Nat Turner in Jerusalem" takes on the important -- and with the upcoming movie Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation" suddenly timely -- 1831 slave revolt with the seriousness deserved by th…
You can take Lin-Manuel Miranda out of "Hamilton" but you can't get either one of them out of the headlines. As the theater season revs up in earnest, here is a grab-bag of theatrical side-t…
Our uncanny, intimate relationship with the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, has burrowed to an even deeper level of closeness.
Here is a shocker that Neil LaBute didn't write into one of his dark, twisty, intentionally upsetting plays.
If much of the world has forgotten Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight -- and, certainly, a lot of us have -- playwright George Brant makes an intimate yet spectacular case for correcting…
There are many lovely, moving moments in "Aubergine," Julia Cho's exploration of the deep role of food in our memories. Though the results are not as meaningful as the scattered anecdotes an…
Everyone knows that stars can be golden at the box office. Less obvious, however, is the impact of celebrities -- or, more specifically, celebrity names -- listed above the title as producer…
It must be destiny. Here is "Hamilton" -- here, there, everywhere -- the altogether brilliant musical that has been unable to avoid becoming the biggest-hyped phenomenon in anyone's musical …
HOLIDAY INN (Studio 54, 254 W. 54th St., Oct. 6) This new old-musical premiere is based on the 1942 musical-comedy film that featured Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and such Irving Berlin clas…
You don't have to be Italian or Jewish to enjoy "My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy" at Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington. Catch the last five performances thi…
This began as a column about news -- some might say alarming news -- from London. Instead, we find ourselves heading toward troubling questions about Broadway.
Before the theater insists we pay attention again, here are some happenings from behind the scenes.
Theatergoers don't have to get anywhere near the Carole King musical, "Beautiful," to sing "I feel the earth move under my feet" these days.
Nearly 34 years have crept and bellowed away since "Cats" introduced Broadway to our first British mega-musical. Revived for the first time with much the same creative team but, significantl…
Jeanine Tesori is ending her astonishing four years as founding artistic director of Encores! Off-Center with another daring resuscitation of a musical she believes we should know.
Here's something fascinating that you won't be able to see this week.
