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Harry HaunObserver |
It is written, sort of: When one reaches that remote age of 96, one can have as many birthday parties as one damn well pleases. Marilyn Maye, who hit...
It may surprise you to learn the next recipient of the annual Chaplin Award, which Film at Lincoln Center will bestow April 29 at Alice Tully Hall,...
Len Cariou has amassed all manner of awards bric-a-brac in his 65-year career, including a Tony in 1979 as Broadway’s original Sweeney Todd. But...
The veteran film and TV actor on his role in 'The Notebook,' his first Broadway show in 46 years.
“I love doing what I do on stage,” declares Toby Stephens, more joyfully than boastfully. Call it a (very) early calling. The gifted offspring of...
“I’m a longtime fan of the drop-off laundry,” crows playwright John Patrick Shanley with a certain discernible pride. Somehow, he convinces you...
The moment you see Thomas Haden Church mosey into a small-town Texas diner to jump-start his day in Accidental Texan , a joyful little dramedy...
In this day and age, a return to radio might not seem the way to go, but Julian Schlossberg sees it different. He’s genuinely thrilled to be making...
“Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I’ve really known for sure is something I wanted to do,” Cynthia Nixon once said. She stands by...
In the concluding episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel last May, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer put in a surprise appearance as Carol Burnett—and, to...
You might recognize the title of The Animal Kingdom from the 1930s Philip Barry comedy of manners about a man trying to justify his love for...
“I seem to be in a medieval musical mode,” it hazily dawns on Michael Urie as he starts evolving these days from Sir Robin of Spamalot at the...
Being the Hades of Hadestown has had its perks for Patrick Page. With a baritone that booms and an imperious manner, Page lorded majestically over...
Stephen Sondheim was a self-confessed “world-class procrastinator,” and he left behind evidence in the form of an unfinished show, Here We Are ...
“What do you have to do to get to Carnegie Hall?” the aspiring musical novice is always asking. In the case of The Comedian Harmonists—a...
Translations , the first of three plays by Brian Friel (1929-2015) constituting Irish Rep’s entire season this year, was in the opinion of its...
Gerard Alessandrini—who’s been tying tin cans to Broadway for 41 years, creating a sort of Tin Can Alley of song spoofs called Forbidden...
One fine fall day in 1979, Nathan Lane ambled into a favorite haunt, the old Drama Book Store on West 52nd St., and picked up a copy of The Frogs ,...
Librettist John Weidman has been a well-oiled and practiced wordsmith for some of the best musical talents in the business, starting with Sondheim...
Finally, Merrily !—that was the critical consensus last December when a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily, We Roll Along rolled...
The theater gods have granted a surprise second-term to Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at Theater at St. Clement’s, but it’s a short one:...
An unprecedented 16 Tony nominations got showered on Hamilton in 2016, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history lesson about early America’s...
In 2007, in The New York Times , Theresa Rebeck revealed the secret ingredients of all her plays: “Betrayal and treason and poor...
A funny thing happened to Arnie Burton on the way to Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors , a raucous little spook spoof now at New World Stages. For...