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NYT > TheaterElegance without ostentation: that would describe the overview of Leonard Bernstein songs that the pianist Bill Charlap and the singer Kurt Elling brought to Bernstein?s theater music.
The musical ?Robin and the 7 Hoods? will open on Broadway during the 2009-10 season, its producers said.
Ms. Getty?s portrayal of a crabbily charming octogenarian on the television sitcom ?The Golden Girls? gave new prominence to elderly characters in prime time.
?I?ll Go On? is a lively tramp through the vast, thorny pastures of Samuel Beckett?s prose.
Countless American playwrights have mined pain and pathos, but Tracy Letts is today?s most explosive extractor.
The Gate Theater in Dublin is back at the Lincoln Center Festival for three star-studded helpings of Samuel Beckett.
Neil Young?s concept album ?Greendale? continues to inspire spinoffs outside the music world, including a graphic novel and a multi-performer theater piece.
Andrew Lippa, a composer, and David Bloch, a film marketing executive, were married on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Although it lasts just half an hour, this staging of a Samuel Beckett piece is one of the most wholly satisfying nights I?ve spent at the theater this year.
Mrs. Nederlander was a producer of nine Broadway shows between 1976 and 1993, most notably of a revival of ?West Side Story? in 1980.
Rosie O?Donnell and friends take a trip on the good ship Mom and Pop.
The Potomac Theater Project puts on three plays during its summer residency at Atlantic Stage 2.
The cosmopolitan wit of Dorothy Parker does not seem to come forth in ?The Little Hours,? a musical based on her writings.
A production of ?Beauty and the Beast,? Disney style, is both silly and meaningful at the Patchogue Theater for the Performing Arts.
The quiet suggestion of a countering, healing tenderness ultimately makes the evening interesting in the comic ?Beyond Therapy.?
Despite a dizzying load of slapstick, balance prevails in David Wiltse?s ?Scramble!? in Westport.
?The Castle? is an autobiographic drama created and played by former criminals.
?[title of show]? is genial, unpretentious and far funnier than many of the more expensively manufactured musicals that make it to Broadway these days.
Marquee-name playwrights, directors and actors lend an air of glamour, fill the houses and help keep the bills paid at the main stages at these Massachusetts festivals.
You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
More than 50 years after the musical ?West Side Story? had its original Broadway premiere, it is set to return in February in a darker, grittier, bilingual revival.
Second Stage Theater, a nonprofit Off Broadway company, plans to announce that it has acquired the right to purchase the historic Helen Hayes Theater on West 44th Street.
?The Strangerer? is a curious hybrid of existential philosophy and political satire.
Productions in London this summer include hot-button topical works, historical dramas that turn the past into a judgment on the present and even the occasional musical.
Estelle Parsons is giving a superb performance in the demanding role of Violet Weston in the play ?August: Osage County.?
Peter Dinklage stars in this uneven but always interesting production of ?Uncle Vanya? at Bard.
