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"Crowns" has been adapted from a coffee-table book, and it feels that way.
Includes an interview with Fiona Shaw.
Regina Taylor reaches within in adapting 'Crowns' for the stage
Tony winner James Naughton directs Paul Newman in the Thornton Wilder classic
Naughton's Tony was for "City of Angels," not "City of Hope"...
The revival of "Our Town" is such a hot ticket that the show, which opens Wednesday, recouped its investment by selling 90 percent of its tickets before it even began previews Friday.
That means a lot of people will be watching Cynthia Wallace make her Broadway debut.
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Saga of mental illness and racism has its own personality disorder
Feel free to accuse Heather Headley of suffering from separation anxiety.
The 28-year-old Tony- winning actress - who starred as the original "Aida" in the Elton John-Tim Rice musical - says it's tougher being in an audience than it is being on stage.
It was called "Short Talks on the Universe." But the gala that Mike Nichols put together last week for Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theatre and Friends in Deed felt to me like the Broadway that m…
The three sisters have made it to Moscow, and wouldn't you know it, they're depressed there, too.
'The General' is Benedict Arnold, the drama revisionist
For a while there, it seemed that David Mamet had lost his sense of play.
With the recent openings of the rock-ballet "Movin' Out" and the spoken word anthology "Def Poetry Jam," not to mention the upcoming and unprecedented appearance of an opera ("La Boheme") on the Great White Way, the definition of a Broadway show keeps loosening and expanding. That means, of course, that there have been a few growing pains.
Includes an interview with Corin Redgrave.
The locals complain about a lack of daring at their hallowed theaters. And yet...Without even stepping into a musical, one can easily fill five days with five substantial new productions of …
Remember when we were complaining about the British takeover of New York theater? Well, for better and for not, the trade balance is going in the other direction.
Simmons' 'Def Poetry' delivers uptown/downtown to midtown
One more and it'll be a trend: A.R. Gurney's "The Fourth Wall" is the second play to open this month in which the title character of Shaw's "St.Joan" figures integrally in self-referential t…
Elizabeth Williams, one half of the producing team Waxman Williams, said she and partner Anita Waxman are developing a new version of the 1965 musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever." T…
Playwright and poet Cornelius Eady accepted the 2002 Newsday Oppy Award yesterday for "Brutal Imagination," which gives poetic voice to the imaginary black criminal invented by Susan Smith, …
From the corner of Sixth Avenue and 50th Street, there are none-too-subtle signs you're near a spectacle with a capital "S."
Concision is rarely a virtue of Lanford Wilson's work. But the third of his works to be produced this fall, his translation of Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts," makes for a sharp contrast: It's econo…
'Movin' Out says it all: Twyla Tharp is taking ballet and the musical beyond their boundaries
