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Tue, 2006-10-03 01:11
Dry-eyed if not quite clear-eyed, David Folwells new play leaves barely a bruise, let alone a buzz, in its wake.
Sun, 2006-10-01 23:48
Located on a stretch where parking lots are the only businesses open after dark, 37 Arts has an address that one producer joked was "just east of dire."
Sun, 2006-10-01 23:43
Weddings are touching and funny. Theyre also clichéd, slightly tacky and embarrassing. This musical aims at the former qualities and partakes of all of the latter.
Sun, 2006-10-01 01:32
The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
Sat, 2006-09-30 21:44
The musical is based on the stories of dancers who question whether they have been fairly compensated.
Sat, 2006-09-30 04:47
Dont expect balloons, a chorus of singers or an ice cream cake in The Birthday Party.
Sat, 2006-09-30 04:43
An actress-director turned playwright uses the 1960s as inspiration in "Second Line."
Fri, 2006-09-29 21:59
If you feel that to be young, restless and on a dark road to nowhere is no laughing matter, you can always visit the dead-end kids in this black-hole revival.
Fri, 2006-09-29 17:31
Traditional Broadway overtures several minutes long, made up of melodies heard later in the show and played by an orchestra before the curtain goes up are disappearing.
Thu, 2006-09-28 22:50
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
Thu, 2006-09-28 21:29
Jay Johnson's genial if flimsy tale of a starry-eyed kid making it as a ventriloquist feels oddly generic.
Wed, 2006-09-27 23:31
Why, exactly, would Tony Kushner, who is often described as shy, and whose work often entails sitting alone in a room, agree to be the central figure in a documentary?
Wed, 2006-09-27 19:13
The streets of the West Village provide a lovely background for this warmhearted and well-researched tribute to the birth of Off Off Broadway.
Wed, 2006-09-27 18:44
It's probably safe to say that few slam poetry champions have both an honors degree from Yale and an opera scholarship on their résumés. But Daniel Beaty has a gift for defying convention.
Wed, 2006-09-27 16:38
Paul Newman hopes that his new restaurant will do for the Westport Country Playhouse what all that salsa and salad dressing did for his charities.
Wed, 2006-09-27 16:37
The developer of a proposed 42-story condominium tower in the theater district has agreed to set aside part of one floor as office space for nonprofit theater companies to comply with an eight-year-old zoning rule.
Tue, 2006-09-26 22:45
Young Jean Lee's play about minority rage and a secret Korean plot to rule the world is brilliantly directed and hysterically funny.
Tue, 2006-09-26 22:44
This is a thoroughly engrossing, fully realized drama brought to life by an ensemble of actors who never miss a beat.
Tue, 2006-09-26 21:51
A feat of mental agility involving a chess board isnt the only overlap between two major magic shows.
Tue, 2006-09-26 21:41
This stiffly written monologue about the final hours of Salvador Allende doesn't humanize its subject any more than a documentary from the History Channel would.