Critic's Notebook: Closing of 'Holler if Ya Hear Me' Raises Questions
The quick closing of the Tupac Shakur musical, "Holler if Ya Hear Me," prompts a critical assessment.
The quick closing of the Tupac Shakur musical, "Holler if Ya Hear Me," prompts a critical assessment.
Battersea Arts Centre, London: This is the first time in its 30-year history that Forced Entertainment has adapted a novel for the stage - and the results are both relentless and hypnotic. R…
BAC, LondonThis show based on Agota Kristof's story strips away any sentimentality to present the diary of twins surviving warForced Entertainment have seldom strayed away from performance a…
Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, television's most unlikely alter egos, are back with A Young Doctor's Notebook amp Other Stories, premiering Tuesday, August 19 at 1000 p.m. ET on Ovation
"Ayckburn Ensemble," a medley of plays by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 Theaters, offers a rich opportunity to explore the sadness of his antic consumerist characters.
Viewers who were paying close attention to the Tony Awards could occasionally not help but acknowledge that performing live theater is hard work in a way that making movies is not.
The suspense of Daphne du Maurier, the mystique of the circus and the smothering bosom of a meddlesome family, all at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C.
A New York theater institution since 1982, the annual roast skewers everyone from Idina Menzel through Neil Patrick Harris to Mandy Patinkin and Carrie Underwood.read more
A dance critic says the dancing in seven new Broadway musicals is good enough for any of them to be contenders for a Tony choreography nomination.
At the 38th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, five full-length plays highlighted storytelling, be they fantastical, historical or ripped from the headlines. &nbs…
Three plays onstage in London " "Ghosts," "Blurred Lines" and "The Pass" " are rooted in sexual hypocrisy and double standards.
Two dark new London musicals, "Stephen Ward," about the 1963 Profumo scandal, and "American Psycho," show men and their libidos behaving badly.
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The young company Bedlam Theater is presenting two four-actor plays " Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" " in repertory at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
Several current productions, from Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" to Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," navigate the malleable landscape of recollection.
The only way virtuosic jazz tap has made it onto Broadway this century is in a vehicle that purports to jump back eight decades.
Theatre, dance and music students need to know the difference between "Early Action," "Early Decision" and "Regular Decision" when applying to college. Playbill…
Episodes 4.5 and 5 of "Life and Times," from Nature Theater of Oklahoma, continued over the weekend, in film and with a book modeled on early medieval illuminated manuscripts. &nb…
Ben Brantley remembers ways Julie Harris affected his life professionally and personally.
In the Berkshires, Olympia Dukakis in "Mother Courage," and Tina Packer in "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" soften harsh and mean maternal instincts.
The Chicago theater scene inspires a deep-rooted loyalty, and this summer, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer, who went on to TV and film, have returned.
As part of the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, Leonardo Da Vinci's "Codex on the Flight of Birds" will make its debut appearance on American soil at the Smithsonian's National …
"Buyer & Cellar," whose subject is a really, really big star, considers the great divide of renown that separates the idol from the idolized.
The comedian Terry Fator brought his genial, unusual ventriloquist act to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.