New Jersey's ReVision Theatre has announced its 2011 season of musicals, which will include the East Coast premiere of The Break-Up Notebook, a comic look at an emotional act, plus the New J…
About once a year, Daniel MacIvor writes an ingeniously constructed and teasingly mysterious new play. So how come you've probably never heard of him?
With cast changes at the top of two big local theaters, what does the future hold?
A Spectacle, Moving Yet Mysterious by BRUCE WEBER
The Lincoln Center Festival productions of Ta'ziyeh, the Iranian musical theater form, are, above all, an education for secular New York.
A predictable matchup of glitz versus guts, 'Dreamgirls' embraces a stereotype it could have broken.
The notorious show from London uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
Play? Opera? A Challenge to Daunt the Eye and Ear by JOHN ROCKWELL
"The Reading," as it is subtitled, of Oscar Wilde's play "Salome," at the St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, shows that it's hard to see a play and hear operatic music.
A spirited race for best musical brings a season of progress -- and backward glances -- to a close. Is Broadway ready to move ahead daringly?
Sondheim Finds a Home in Washington by PHILIP TAUBMAN
A musical master finds an unlikely showcase.
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"That Pretty Pretty; or, the Rape Play," at the Rattlestick, gives you plenty of rape and nothing pretty. I'm not sure what the play is about, but, then, it seems, neither is the author, She…
"Good," at Village East Cinemas.
The Model of a Soldier (but No Model Soldier) By CARYN JAMES
The 1920's novel "The Good Soldier Svejk," by the Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek, continues to have an astonishing afterlife, including the new stage production "Svejk."
What's the Story: Is It Dance or Theater? By JOHN ROCKWELL
Layers of popular and artistic choreographic history are evoked in Matthew Bourne's "Play Without Words." No matter. This is theater, Mr. Bourne insists.
In terms of promise and buzz (or both), these are my choices for the top 10 shows at this year's New York International Fringe Festival.
Theater lovers are turned away nightly from the limited run of the playwright Horton Foote's parting masterwork based on his Texas boyhood.
What sets the English apart from our actors? It's more than just a way with words.
A book critic reads four Tony Award-nominated plays, having seen exactly none of the productions.
Plays 'The Event,' 'Internal,' 'Trilogy' populate fest
Friends, I have a confession to make. No, I'm not writing this from rehab. I actually just returned from the Pantages, where - this isn't easy to admit - I saw "Cats" for the first time.
Enter One Actor, Cloaked in Magic by BRUCE WEBER
In the category of theater writ small we have two one-actor shows, "Lilia!" and "That Play," both at the Midtown International Theater Festival.
A new Manhattan bus tour has a theatrical, improv twist as it interacts with people on the street in surprising ways.