
Updated : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:33:28 GMT
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright, is back telling stories shaped by his country?s tormented racial history. His new play will have its premiere at a theater named in his honor. Publ.Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:17:57 GMT
?The Demons,? a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season. Publ.Date : Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:07:30 GMT
The new musical from the fabled songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb wears its halo like a barbed-wire hat. Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:17:02 GMT
In interviews after last night's show, many people, black and white, said that while disturbing at times, the play's trafficking in racial stereotypes proved an unexpectedly emotional theatrical experience. Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:37:52 GMT
While ?Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers? offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:58:32 GMT
Andrew Bovell?s ?When the Rain Stops Falling? is a fitfully moving but diagrammatic play about the long legacy of unnatural acts. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:12:15 GMT
More answers to readers' questions from Marc Robinson, a professor at Yale University. Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:15:37 GMT
Laura Linney and the makeup artist Mindy Hall gave a reporter a mini-tutorial on the art of the scar. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:28:40 GMT
Bette Bourne, a drag performer and activist from Britain, recounts his experience at the footlights and on the front lines in ?A Life in Three Acts.? Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:47:37 GMT
Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center?s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:19:51 GMT
?Sylvia,? at the Long Wharf Theater, is about a poodle-Labrador retriever mix, known these days as a Labradoodle. Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:21:51 GMT
Martin McDonagh?s erratically enjoyable ?Behanding in Spokane? never matches the strange genius of its star, Christopher Walken. Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:39:22 GMT
?Brack?s Last Bachelor Party? imagines the party Judge Brack gives for George Tesman in ?Hedda Gabler.? Publ.Date : Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:19:58 GMT
Temperatures rise in ?Ghosts? and irony betrays ?Sweet Nothings,? as Andrew Lloyd Webber?s ?Love Never Dies? opens. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:21:30 GMT
The show business trade paper said ?economic reality? dictated jobs cuts, eight in total. Publ.Date : Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:19 GMT
?The Boys in the Band? influenced untold numbers of gay artists who, for the first time, were seeing characters out of the closet and in front of a paying audience. Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:50:32 GMT
The show, to be staged at the New York City Center, reflects efforts by media companies to go beyond traditional realms of the printed page or TV set. Publ.Date : Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:00:22 GMT
Projections are so much a part of going to the theater these days that the Yale School of Drama is going to offer a full-fledged projection design program starting this fall. Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:53:24 GMT
Even though belt-tightening measures have put tremendous strain on teachers and students, schools are continuing to produce remarkable creative works. Publ.Date : Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:00:42 GMT
?Lenin?s Embalmers,? at Ensemble Studio Theater, will teach you to beware those in seats of power who issue orders that carry the whiff of crazy. Publ.Date : Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:46:18 GMT
?Next Fall? is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy. Publ.Date : Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:18:07 GMT
While Jonathan Reynolds?s assault on assumptions about the right to choose abortion is likely too crude to make theatergoers re-evaluate their positions, it did make me reconsider my view of political theater. Publ.Date : Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:34:24 GMT
Andrew Lloyd Webber?s belated sequel to ?The Phantom of the Opera? feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth. Publ.Date : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:37:43 GMT
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