Are families onstage ever believable? Not very often, in my experience. Usually, their tribulations degenerate into either sitcom or soap opera: juiced up with gag lines, or else trumped up with plot contrivances, to make a more …
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Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash
In a spiffy Encores! revival, Megan Hilty wows the crowd as the not-so-dumb blond Lorelei Lee, the role that made Monroe a star
In Defense of Ghost: The Musical (No, Really)
What’s so scary about a show that grapples seriously with death?
TIME’s Not-the-Tony Awards 2012
The Tony nominations are out—and we’ve already got our awards ready to go
Low Comedy, High Concept
Laughs from London, and serious talk about race in America
When Mike Tyson Takes the Stage: The Boxer’s Vegas Show
In one of the more bizarre one-man shows staged on the Vegas Strip, the former heavyweight champion tries to explain his life
Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t
Two Andrew Lloyd Webber revivals recall the composer’s glory days. But only one measures up
$853.8 million
Newsboys Striking, Garland Freaking: Broadway’s Newsies and End of the Rainbow
A disappointment from Disney, and a starmaking performance by Tracie Bennett
Broadway’s Old New Hit: Death of a Salesman
Even a flawed production proves, yet again, that it’s the indestructible play
Once Too Often: A Wrong Turn on Broadway
Not too long ago, the very idea of a Broadway musical adapted from a little Irish film called Once would have been inconceivable. The 2006 movie was a teensy, micro-budget independent feature about a Dublin street musician and …
Carrie Is Back: The Resurrection and the Life
Carrie. Just the name is enough to provoke shivers of fear and anticipation in the bones of any theater buff. In 1988 a musical version of Stephen King’s horror novel (filmed memorably in 1976 by Brian de Palma) opened on …
A Sondheim Musical Rolls Back to Life
In its revival of the 1981 Merrily We Roll Along, the Encores! series resurrects a famous old flop and gives it a happy ending