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Watching "Giant," opening March 23 on Broadway after a much-hailed run on London's West End, one is left with little wonder how its protagonist, Roald Dahl, achieved such success as a writer…
The script for Samuel D. Hunter's "Little Bear Ridge Road" indicates that the play takes place at "a couch in a void." As the lights come up, we see it " a white leather monstrosity with sep…
I am among the many potential audience members for "Art," the new revival of Yazmina Reza's sly, knowing play, who has never thought much about James Corden. That's not to say I haven't thou…
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Cole Escola talks with Darren Criss ('Maybe Happy Ending') about the incredible run of their off- turned on- Broadway sensation that is 'Oh, Mary!' and how it all started at the Duplex in th…
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Reuniting after 'Succession's Finale, Kieran Culkin ('Glengarry Glen Ross') and Sarah Snook ('The Portrait of Dorian Gray') joke about Kieran never remembering his lines and what it's been l…
Jonathan Groff ('Just in Time') & Nicole Scherzinger ('Sunset Boulevard') go "balls deep" (their words, not ours) and talk about Scherzinger's incredibly long run both on the West End and no…
George Clooney ('Good Night, and Good Luck') and Patti LuPone ('The Roommate') discuss LuPone working with Mia Farrow, the challenges of readapting 'Good Night, and Good Luck' for the stage,…
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Jake Gyllenhaal ('Othello') seeks Audra McDonald's ('Gypsy') advice on vocal warm-ups as they express their mutual admiration for Stephen Sondheim and talk working with Denzel Washington.
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Sybil Schneiderman, the breakout character on Hulu's new sitcom "Mid-Century Modern," is discussed, amply, before she is seen. "The woman could probably make it another 20 years just on cott…
If there is an American leading man better-equipped to bring Shakespeare to the masses than Denzel Washington, I can't think of him. Well, "the masses" may be a stretch " the new production …
"Cult of Love" begins with a tableau so close to perfect that one can see it shattering even before it happens. The Dahl family have come together to celebrate Christmas, with three of the f…
As she sings the final verse of "As If We Never Said Goodbye," one of two showstopping numbers that bolster the musical "Sunset Boulevard," Nicole Scherzinger turns her face skyward. Her arc…
Playing the character of "DHH," the actor Daniel Dae Kim begins "Yellow Face," the new production of David Henry Hwang's play, standing within a box, from which he promptly strides out. …
At various points in "An Enemy of the People," the Jeremy Strong-led production of Henrik Ibsen's classic, the greatest entertainment comes from watching the faces opposite you. That's not a…
Through the second act of "A Little Life," the titanic Ivo van Hove-directed play that premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House on Oct. 20, the protagonist lite…
In Shakespeare in the Park's new production of "Richard III," Danai Gurira plays the title role less as a politician than as a performer. Gurira's Richard is a mastermind of chaos at the cou…
The set of the new Broadway production of "American Buffalo" at Circle in the Square is choked with the unwanted artifacts of recent history. The show's two acts take place in a junk shop gl…
"Plaza Suite" practically demands to be played straight. Neil Simon's look at three romantic couples facing down the passage of time is sharp and knowing, but it is, crucially, earnest. Each…
Stephen Sondheim reinvented the American musical by creating something deeper, darker, richer and more artistically daring. In "Company,"Â "Sweeney Todd" and "Into the Woods," he pushed th…
Your inclination towards "Schmigadoon!," at least in its early going, will likely be determined by your reaction to its title. If you think it's a clever, charming wink to "Brigadoon" " the …