N.Y.U. hosted the first-ever National High School Musical Theater Awards, in which the best actor and best actress winners receive $100,000 scholarships to Tisch.
Peter Sellars's exasperatingly misconceived Othello is wrongheaded less in the anarchic tradition of Dadaists making merry than in the reactionary mold of Depression-era MGM retailoring literary classics for mass consumption.
Show should draw plenty of pre-teens who know the material inside out, and help the ledger of the venerable New Jersey theater, which barely escaped extinction in June via a $9 million bailo…
Joel Markowitz reflects on the Helen Hayes Awards After-Party and the many upsets that occurred on Monday night. He shares over 50 photos including the ecstatic winners, local DC area actors…
Only time will tell where Chicago will rank in the annals of splashy screen musicals. But it's at least a surefire Oscar hopeful, given the best-picture nomination that went to vocally infer…
The production, based on Nick Hornby's delightful novel and the John Cusack movie, is bright, breezy entertainment - not a life-changing experience but notable in several respects.
For many in the audience with less-than-discriminating tastes, just revisiting their fave characters in any format is enough as long as it's presented reasonably well. In this stage sequel p…
Although the play runs out of steam at a point, this cast of three does a terrific job.
Musicals have come a long way from those standard "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" plots. Add to the list of shows tackling offbeat topics Next to Normal—a "girl loses marbles" story about a young mother who is mentally ill. The production, which opened Wednesday night Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre, is audacious, original and—like its heroine—has issues.