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The Broadway icon announced Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss more than a week of shows of "Company" on the Broadway stage.
Harvey Evans, the Broadway actor whose talents got him into several classic plays in below-the-marquee roles, died Friday. Evans died at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J., his friend L…
For Alanis Morissette fans, the latest Broadway news is like rain on your wedding day. "Jagged Little Pill," the musical based on Morissette's 1995 album of the same name, will shutter perma…
The Met has not performed since March 11, 2020, because of the pandemic, canceling 276 performances plus an international tour scheduled for next month.
"Wear a f--ng mask. There's plenty of time for hot girl s--t later," Rossum wrote.
The Beetlejuice is rancid. And be sure not to bring the kids for a drink. "Beetlejuice" " officially "Beetlejuice the Musical, the Musical, the Musical" " is one of those what-were-they-thin…
"Can I touch you?" John Lithgow's Bill asks Laurie Metcalf's Hillary. If looks could kill, the audience for playwright Lucas Hnath's "Hillary and Clinton" at Broadway's Golden Theatre would …
When Lanford Wilson's "Burn/This" was first performed at Steppenwolf in Chicago at 1987, it famously starred John Malkovich and Joan Allen as, respectively, Pale and Anna: the coked-up, gang…
An "Oklahoma!" for an anxious, riven America unable engage in any kind of collective, cock-eyed optimism anymore, director Daniel Fish's Broadway revival at Circle in the Square Theatre is a…
No crueler speech was ever uttered by a parent than the torrent of abuse that William Shakespeare's King Lear, that great beacon of self-awareness, unleashes on Goneril, the eldest of his th…
So how will history judge Rupert Murdoch, of Fox News and New York Post fame? As a devil from Down Under who trashed august journalistic institutions, made a mockery of the phrase "fair and …
In 2015, an entertainment publication conducted a poll among actors, asking them for the best movie ever made. You'd expect "The Godfather" or "Chinatown," but the winner was "Tootsie," the …
Joe Keller, the tragic antihero of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" and a man who shipped out cracked cylinder heads to World War II fighter pilots, generally is played as a folksy sort of fell…
What's the difference between a clown and a fool? You might think the question moot, given the ample prevalence of both types in and around the White House. But it's the central issue in "Ga…
America's on the road to hell " better jump right off, my children. Too dangerous to look back. Instead, try and find the cracks in that famous wall we're building. That's pretty much the me…
Most Broadway shows stick with playbills. Heidi Schreck hands out take-home copies of the Constitution of the United States of America. Or, as her 15-year-old self puts it in her mostly one-…
"Ain't Too Proud," the frustrating biographical Broadway musical about Motown's hit-machine the Temptations, takes its title from a 1966 record, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg." But it could just a…
Scott Ellis, whose body of work reveals him to be a softie, knows better than any other Broadway director how to key into the inner emotional lives of theater people. And he's also keenly aw…
The new high school musical "Be More Chill" needed to take it own advice: Chill out, kids. And fear not your own truth! If all of its overplayed, insecure, overwrought, dial-in-the-red-zone …
Did you know you die three times? According to Abe " the deep-thinking character played by Jake Gyllenhaal, no less, in the depressing double bill at the Public Theater " you actually conk o…
Ever since Gregory Peck, the Tom Hanks of his moment, starred in the film version of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1962, the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch has been a symbol of Am…
Americans were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in 1976. And " take a look outside your window " they're still mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in 2018. But the presc…
Even jukebox musicals and celebrity bio-shows need clear reasons for theatrical being. In her one-woman show, Elaine Stritch memorably described herself as a "existential problem in tights."…
Hoosiers are a great mystery to the people of Broadway. Apparently, they live in small, economically challenged towns best flown over. They insist on homophobic traditional values and, when …
"Truth isn't truth," Rudy Giuliani famously spluttered on "Meet the Press" last summer, trumping even presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway's much-derided coinage of the phrase "alternative …
