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Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart's musical bio of Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, two silent screen icons, roared this past weekend into New York as part of the Encores! series o…
Playwright and actor Charles Busch is back among us offering a new comedy with serious undertones which takes aim at the "weepy" film genre that was popular from the days of silent films to …
Dealing as it does with the incipient integration of black servicemen in the Army in 1944 (The Armed Services were formally integrated in 1948), this new production of Charles Fuller's Pulit…
The Second Stage Company is continuing its mission to bring the works of living American playwrights to production. It currently operates three New York venues of varying sizes; its Broadway…
From John Milton's 1667 epic poem in blank verse, playwright Tom Dulack has created his own 100 minute one-act play also called "Paradise Lost." Currently playing out a limited run that ends…
There is a photo of Laura Linney on the cover of this play's Playbill"a photo that is luminous and wistful and wise. Her eyes are focused on the distance outside the frame; her lips are part…
Dion Boucicault lived through seventy years of the 19th century and spent fifty of them writing plays. He was only twenty-one when he delivered this stylish comedy of manners; it was …
Younger audiences may prefer their theatre either as a seven hour epic or as a neatly-tied, ninety-minute, one-act bundle; but George Eastman's play takes the middle of the road aiming to pl…
Tony Kushner wrote this play in 1985 when he was 29 years old. It deals with the early 1930s in Germany, the years in which the Weimar Republic was beginning to crumble, and Adolf Hitler was…
It's a good idea to prepare yourself if you plan to see both parts of Mr. Lopez's play at matinee and evening in the same day. It can be done at 1:00 PM and again at 7:00 PM. Make certain yo…
 If you happen to be passing the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on 46th Street any evening around 9:30 (some nights at 10:30), and you hear a roar emanate from the theatre's lobby, don't be a…
To get right to it"there is an anticipatory glow, even as we settle into our seats, that shouts at us from the house curtain with the musical's title splashed across it in all its gory glory…
There are actors who begin their careers with training and early professional outings in regional and stock theatres as understudies and bit players. Many use live theatre as training gr…
Broadway will soon have to change its name to "Revival City" for the number of new works (except for juke box musicals and seven hour "events") has narrowed down to two or three play entries…
Tracy Letts, who established himself as a playwright with "August: Osage County," is a gifted writer and actor who has an uncanny ear for the unique rhythms, accents, and insight…
"All the Way" by Robert Schenkkan dealt with Lyndon Johnson's efforts to influence the 88th U.S. congress to vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It first appeared in 2012 at the Oregon Sha…
Artists often prepare sketches to guide themselves through the process of creating a painting. Architects draw blueprints which are subject to change before committing to building. And P…
Once upon a time (circa 1929) the world was young and so was Cole Porter. He'd spent his formative years at Yale, where he began to dash off tunes attached to his own lyrics, some of which b…
The Manhattan Theatre Club has brought us this play from London's West End. It serves Eileen Atkins, Jonathan Pryce, and an excellent supporting cast well; but I suggest it will bring reward…
Master playwright Harold Pinter has left us a fistful of fascinating plays, and their highly original tales will be with us for many years to come. "The Birthday Party," "The Homecoming," an…
Top drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reykjavic, Iceland. In his case, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely, as he had spent his working life…
The Hudson Theatre on Broadway is playing host presently to two star actors with two playwrights (Simon Stephens and Nick Payne) delivering two acts of delicate magic. On a virtually bare st…
Let's take a moment to stroll down memory lane. For some of you it will be more of a history lesson, but join us anyway as we think about a time when New York had something called "café soc…
You can tell as you enter the Al Hirschfeld Theatre that you're going to be seeing a big show. The entire proscenium and a lot of the side walls are covered with gilt and glitter and a huge …
A young British playwright, Chris Urch, is making his Lincoln Center debut with this play"one written in white heat. It's fiction but is based on incidents that took pace in Uganda ten years…
