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That’s certainly the case with playwright James McLure, whose work is finally back in town after decades of playing everywhere else.

And while it’s rare enough for an actress to land such a major part, Faure’s journey to top billing has been especially unusual: Most recently, she left the ensemble of Bullets Over Broadway to start her new job, a swift exit that certainly wasn’t part of her plan: Last year, she says, “when I was in Honeymoon in Vegas at Paper Mill Playhouse, I knew it might have a Broadway life at some point, an

Considering all the gunfights and sex and dirty jokes in their show, you wouldn’t think anyone in Clown Bar would base their performance on It’s a Wonderful Life . But that’s one reason this raucous play has become such a downtown hit. It never met a vintage reference it couldn’t use.

This video was directed by Mark Blankenship and shot and edited by Nicholas Guldner.

Typically, of course, American plays launch in America before heading across the ocean (and vice versa). But at the moment, playwright Adam Bock, a Montreal native who’s based in New York City, is thwarting that trend. Though he has a long history of New York productions, his latest play, The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is currently making its world premiere at London’s Tricycle The

— “I like to refer to Rock of Ages as the big little show,” says wardrobe supervisor Wendall Goings. As he puts it, the costumes for the ’80s-set jukebox musical—stuffed with hair metal hits like “Sister Christian” and “Wanted Dead or Alive”—are almost an illusion; the clothes might seem skimpy, but they’re made of hundreds of parts.

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King Kirby celebrates a forgotten legend — Why do some artists become household names while others toil away in obscurity? That question’s at the heart of King Kirby, a bio-play by husband-and-wife writers Fred Van Lente and Crystal Skillman that dramatizes the life and career of prolific comic book illustrator Jack Kirby. If you’re furrowing […]