Stage Door: Billy Elliott, The Footage
The heart of Billy Elliott is the universal power of dance. A miner's son in Northern England dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, a singular pursuit i...
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Elton John Celebrates His "Billy Elliot" Opening
AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Elton John still can't believe he's a Broadway hitmaker. The 61-year-old musician marveled at his success Thursday night at the open...
Theater Director Quits Amid Gay-Rights Anger
AP | Posted 11.13.2008 | Entertainment
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The artistic director at California's largest nonprofit musical theater company resigned Wednesday amid protests over his d...
Stage Door: Glimpses of the Moon, Marie Galante
Fern Siegel | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
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The young, romance-seeker asks: "Don't you believe in love?" Her more jaded friend snaps back: "I believe in Lehman Bros." In 1922, when Edith Wharton wrote those lines, everyone laughed.
John Lithgow And Patrick Wilson's Odd Theater Experience
New York Times | Posted 11.12.2008 | Entertainment
The last time that John Lithgow and Patrick Wilson participated in the kind of theater exercises that they did to prepare for the current Broadway re...
"Mr Big" Chris Noth Turns Political Operative In New Play
AP | KRISTEN A. LEE | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Chris Noth's focus had shifted from career to family when his agent called about a role in the Atlantic Theater Company's off-Broadwa...
Stage Door: Forbidden Broadway, To Be or Not To Be
Fern Siegel | Posted 10.24.2008 | Entertainment
The Disneyfication of Broadway, coupled with the proliferation of movies turned musicals, is enough to send any serious theater fan screaming into the night.
Stage Door: Equus, The Seagull
Fern Siegel | Posted 10.16.2008 | Entertainment
The story is dramatic and disturbing - a child psychiatrist tries to discover why a 17-year-old British boy blinded six horses. Based on a true incide...
Theater: Campbell Scott in "The Atheist" and Christine Lahti in "A Body Of Water"
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.16.2008 | Entertainment
Two terrific film stars are on the stage in New York, something neither of them do nearly enough. Like most of the best theater actors, both Campbell ...
My Speech to the Membership: 700 Billion What?
Michael Gene Sullivan | Posted 10.08.2008 | Entertainment
700 billion dollars. 700 billion dollars... billion.... There are fewer than 7 billion people on Earth. So 700 billion means more than $100 for every man, woman and child on the planet.
Theater: "Fifty Words" and "That Other Woman's Child"
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.06.2008 | Entertainment
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When a play like Fifty Words dissects a relationship, it's hard not to take sides. A married couple, two lovers, a relationship of any kind that gets put through the wringer is invariably going to draw you in.
Stage Door: A Tale of Two Cities, Small Craft Warnings
Fern Siegel | Posted 10.01.2008 | Entertainment
Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities begins with these memorable words: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdo...
Peter Sarsgaard Rejects Hipsters, Embraces Chekhov On Broadway
AP | MARK KENNEDY | Posted 09.30.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Peter Sarsgaard wants to meet in a coffee bar in Brooklyn, but balks when he gets there. It's crowded with 30-somethings in carefull...
Equus Premieres On Broadway With Naked Daniel Radcliffe
AP | ERIN CARLSON | Posted 09.26.2008 | Entertainment
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NEW YORK — By now, Daniel Radcliffe has his role in "Equus" down cold. But he still had a case of the jitters before taking the stage for the pl...
Theater: Tempest Brews Off Broadway
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.25.2008 | Entertainment
Mandy Patinkin is a wonderful actor I'd never seen perform live. So it was a treat to check out the Classic Stage Company's new production of Shakespe...
Chris Noth Joining Off Broadway Play
AP | Posted 09.15.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Television's Mr. Big is going off-Broadway. Chris Noth, best known for his role as Sarah Jessica Parker's major love interest on "Se...
Theater as Trouble: Democrats Take Note
Conn and Anne Hallinan | Posted 08.26.2008 | Entertainment
The Tony-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe is getting ready to celebrate its 50th anniversary of annoying public officials, skewering greedy politicians, and hammering the powerful.
Theater: Hair In Central Park
Michael Giltz | Posted 08.08.2008 | Entertainment
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Central Park is the perfect setting for a revival of that instant time capsule of a musical, Hair. Central Park was the setting for a Be-In and it doe...
End Days, Laughing in the Face of Armageddon
Kay Goldstein | Posted 08.06.2008 | Living
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End of Days is a quirky family comedy underscores the vulnerabilities and aspirations of human beings who have survived trauma and even the threat of annihilation.
Stage Door: Scenes From An Execution, The Marriage of Bette and Boo
Fern Siegel | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment
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Scenes From an Execution is aptly titled. It refers to both an epic painting of a famed Venetian battle and the imprisonment of the unapologetic arti...
Stage Door: Occupant, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy
Fern Siegel | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment
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Insightful, and astounding, Albee's Occupant reveals the true grit behind an artist's calling. By contrast, Goldberg's Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy focuses on the wholly physical -- stretching, literally, what the body can do.
Theater/Art: London Calling
Michael Giltz | Posted 06.26.2008 | Entertainment
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Why do critics -- like Ben Brantley from the New York Times -- spend a month in London going to the theater? Because they can, of course. Happily, so ...
Post-Tony Theater Recommendations
Ryan J. Davis | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
All of America ('all' equals six million in this case) was glued to the Tony Awards Sunday, waiting with baited breath to see what show they haven't h...
Confessions of a South Pacific groupie?
Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 06.12.2008 | Entertainment
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Beneath my New York armor, I'm as corny as Kansas; The recent revival of South Pacific reminded me of all the lovers kept apart by this endless war and how atypical it is to love blatantly, putting devotion ahead of all else.
The Greatest Musical You've Never Heard Of
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.29.2008 | Entertainment
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"You have never heard of it," that kind of unknown. AND greatest: winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award greatest. The show is...are you ready?
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