- September 25, 2006
- The Fire This Time
Our picks from the Ohio Theater’s Ignite festival, a three-week downtown mix of cabaret, monologues, comedy, dance, and one-act plays.
- September 11, 2006
- Theater Preview
Julianne Moore, Europe’s favorite American actress, debuts on Broadway; Sweeney Todd mastermind John Doyle’s next move; nine hours of Tom Stoppard.
- September 11, 2006
- Marathon Man
Brace yourself, Stoppard fans: The master brings a nine-hour drama to Lincoln Center.
- September 11, 2006
- But Is the Cast Album on Vinyl?
Making a Broadway musical from Nick Hornby’s lovely novel High Fidelity, about a lovelorn indie-record-store snob, sounds dubious. But with a script by David Lindsay-Abaire and a star turn from Will Chase—widely considered the only good thing about last year’s Lennon—there is cause for hope.
- September 11, 2006
- Company’s Coming
John Doyle made waves when he gave Patti LuPone a tuba for Sweeney Todd. Will it work for “The Ladies Who Lunch”?
- September 11, 2006
- Channeling the Grey Ghosts
Christine Ebersole chats about—and with—Little Edie Beale.
- September 11, 2006
- A Berlitz Guide to BAM
A quickie Shakespeare translator for what you’ll hear onstage—and chat about afterward.
- September 11, 2006
- The Ten-Percent Solution
This fall’s Broadway transfer of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed suggests a new subgenre: the Agent Morality Play.
- August 24, 2006
- All the World’s a Stage
Julianne Moore on her role in David Hare’s international-studies play The Vertical Hour—and how she almost skipped her return to Broadway.
- September 11, 2006
- Sing It Strong
Highlights from the third year of the 34-show New York Musical Theatre Festival, which promotes up-and-coming artists and theater companies.