New Musicals, From Fledgling to Full-Fledged
This year s New York Musical Theater Festival brings a surprising number of highly polished productions giving it their all in mostly small, slightly out-of-the-way theaters.
Theater Review | ‘Oleanna’: He Said, She Said, but What Exactly Happened?
The revival of David Mamet s play, which pits the excellent Bill Pullman against the luminous Julia Stiles, often seemed slow to the point of stasis.
Theater Review | ‘A Disaster Begins’: Seeking Order in a Life, a War and a Deluge
The 1900 flood in Galveston, Tex., is the subject of Ain Gordon s smart, hourlong show.
Theater Review | ‘The Traveling Players Present the Women of Troy’: Pain, Old and New, With Glints of Hope
Even in the saddest moments of The Traveling Players Present the Women of Troy a tiny glimmer of hope endures.
Music Review | Chita Rivera: Broadway Baby Paints the Town
Ms. Rivera is the pied piper of razzle-dazzle challenging you to shake off your workaday blues, join the carnival parade and rejoice in life.
Theater Review | ‘Penny Penniworth’: Every Dickens Character You Never Saw Takes a Bow
Anyone ever tortured by a Charles Dickens novel will find lots and lots to laugh at in the parody Penny Penniworth.
