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Theater Features Archive

May 1, 2006
The Curtain Rises on the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!

Our theater buzz and backlash report.

April 24, 2006
Killer Charm: Alan Cumming

A Q&A with actor and The Threepenny Opera star Alan Cumming.

April 17, 2006
What’s So Hard About Being Ralph Fiennes?

A tabloid-besieged star returns to Broadway.

April 17, 2006
Songs to Make Your Blood Curdle: A History of the Vampire Musical

As a rule, vampire musicals inexorably lead to financial and critical bloodbaths, but that doesn’t stop our entertainers from giving them a go, over and over again. As Elton John’s Anne Rice–derived Lestat premieres, it’s high time for a comparison of musicals that suck.

April 17, 2006
Heal Thyself

Lisa Kron’s Well is a moving play about her mother that wonders, “If I got better, why couldn’t she?”

April 3, 2006
A Long-Lost Love

Ali MacGraw comes out of hiding to appear on Broadway for the first time.

March 27, 2006
Overheard

What the audience really thought about ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore.’

March 13, 2006
Cyndi Lauper: The Remix

An eighties icon finally makes it to Broadway.

March 13, 2006
Influences: In the Men’s Room With Wallace Shawn

Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really—Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

March 13, 2006
To the Core

Organic veggies at the root of conflict.

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