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Mandy Patinkin appears so seldom onstage these days that it feels wrong - ungrateful, even - to be less than thrilled with the results.
Geoffrey Rush is giving one of the most astonishing performances of ordeal theater we're ever likely to see.
Leave it to Kathy Griffin to speak for the id that lurks behind the most high-minded escapades on Broadway.
Leave it to Kathy Griffin to speak for the id that lurks behind the most high-minded escapades on Broadway.
Is there a play doctor in Spidey's house? The producers of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" have hired playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to work on the book written by director Julie Taymor a…
Two safety violations have been issued against "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" for injuries that happened before the new protocols were put into effect Dec. 23.
Try to remember a time in December when 20 shows posted their closing notices, when clammy hands were wrung around the Theater District and everyone talked about how, just maybe, Broadway wa…
It is time - I'm afraid past time - to turn the lights on "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark."
"Lost in the Stars" is a stately, nobly intentioned, peculiar mess of a musical from 1950.
"Lost in the Stars" is a stately, nobly intentioned, peculiar mess of a musical from 1950. Encores!, which generally focuses its weekend archaeological digs on semi-staged concert revivals o…
Huge mounds of hard snow and a really scary blizzard are heating up the Spring Season at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater. This makes no meteorological sense, but it does make marv…
Once again this year, Broadway insists on stacking up a mountain of openings (I count 22) in March and April - lest they be too easily forgotten by the April 28 Tony cutoff.
For Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and director Austin Pendleton, the tiny Classic Stage Company on East 13th Street has become the unexpected home of indie-Chekhov - intimate, conversat…
That draft blowing around Broadway is not what you think. The chill wind is coming from a legal draft - a 39-page proposal with threatening implications for "Billy Elliot," "The Lion King," …
The Atlantic Theater Company has taken leave of its Chelsea base while the playhouse undergoes renovations. It is also possible to conclude that the group has taken leave of its senses - or …
Christopher Tierney, who fell 30 feet doing a stunt for "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," is going to have a special part in the much-delayed show when it finally opens March 15. "He is going…
For the first time, the actor who plays Peter Parker/Spider-Man does his own flying at "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
Huge mounds of hard snow and a really scary blizzard are heating up the Spring Season at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater. This makes no meteorological sense, but it does make marv…
Those lips. (Cheshire.) Those eyes. (Lizard.) That hat. (Winged-victory, preparing for takeoff.) Every brocaded sneer, each well-tasted vowel in Brian Bedford's embodiment of Lady Bracknell …
Ticket buyers for "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" and other Broadway shows must now be told when seats are for previews and not the finished product.
With all the noise around a certain theatrical spider and all the big names lining up for Broadway this spring, it would be seriously wrong to overlook Off-Broadway's upcoming enticements.
Ellen Stewart, one of the great visionaries of off-off-Broadway and founder of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club on East Fourth Street, died yesterday after what co-artistic director Mia Yoo…
The return of Jon Robin Baitz to the theater - that is, to the kind in which grown-ups grapple with ideas of consequence in meaningful and delightful language - is a very big deal.
Well, it's off again. "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" has postponed its opening from Feb. 7 until March 15 so director Julie Taymor and U2's Bono and The Edge can keep working on the show an…
