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Those who look at Broadway and wonder where all the new American plays are need only glance a bit Off-Broadway to find a vibrant crop of fresh stage works. The coming season at major Off-Broadway theatres is especially ripe with world premieres by new and emerging playwrights. Two of the season’s most promising offerings are […]

George Lee Andrews has a well-worn evening routine. Pick up an iced chai from Starbucks; check. Sign in for work on a bulletin board ringed by Christmas lights; check. Greet every one of his colleagues; double-check. Then, at about 6:30 p.m., Andrews makes his way up three flights, through a narrow stairwell decorated with vacation […]

“Isn’t it a shame that all awards shows can’t be this warm?” said director Jack O’Brien (The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray) as he presented the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design to his colleague, British designer Bob Crowley (Carousel, The History Boys). The occasion was the 15th annual tdf/Irene Sharaff Awards, […]

The imported epic Coram Boy may have closed precipitously on Broadway after just 30 performances, but its breakout star, Xanthe Elbrick, is having a very good year, thank you. Nominated for a Tony in May for the dual role of a pair of precocious, musically talented boys, the British-American actress was nominated for a Tony […]

To say that Kate Mulgrew is “in a good place” right now would be an understatement. Given that she’s starring in Iphigenia 2.0, Chuck Mee’s free-wheeling modern take on Euripides, at the Signature Theatre, you might even call it a tragic understatement. “Going to the theatre right now is going on wings,” effuses Mulgrew, who’s […]

The Theatre Development Fund’s TKTS booth is justly famous for its half-price offerings of Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. But what about Off-Off-Broadway? This thriving alternative realm of New York theatre already boasts pretty cheap seats, but now TDF is offering the ticket-buying public the option of even lower prices, and the chance to sample a […]

“Our show is all about used-car salesmen in a fishbowl,” joked Steven Cosson, the director and compiler of Gone Missing, the Off-Broadway hit by the hip New York-based theatre company The Civilians, just extended at the Barrow Street Theatre through Jan. 6, 2008. In fact there are no cars, fish or sales staff onstage in […]

Funny what a Broadway hit can do for a writer. Douglas Carter Beane had only written one musical before, an allegorical romp set on a terrorist-beset cruise ship called The Big Time, which had a brief production as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2005 but has since languished on producers’ desks. […]

Angela Lansbury may have told the press that Terrence McNally’s Deuce will be her last Broadway show, but her co-star Marian Seldes won’t have any of it. “I don’t believe it,” Seldes said recently. “I think something will occur that she’ll want to do, and she’ll do it again. She loves acting in the theatre […]