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For William Mastrosimone, a work begun as a son's story is completed as a father's account.

A languid, half-playful, half-academic and disappointingly dull 90-minute collage of words, music and dance.

For those who missed the 60’s revival the first, second and third time around, this go-go-booted zombie of a musical is shimmying away off Broadway.

Rajiv Joseph's play may not be the most substantive show in New York, but it’s almost certainly unchallenged in the creative use of spermatozoa as a scenic motif.

Tormenting memories dissolve into soaring music, and pain is salved by a collective embrace in this heartfelt, powerfully performed theater piece.

Mako, a distinguished stage and screen actor, was widely regarded as having blazed the trail for Asian-Americans in films, on television and in the theater.

It would be hard for any actress to top the layers of self-contempt and self-knowledge in Margaret Colin’s fine performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival's revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth."

If one were to draw an EKG of the career of Keith Carradine, who returns to Broadway after an absence of 15 years, the ups and downs would be as sharp as the beating of an erratic heart.

In a state of fragile health, English drama decides to hibernate for the high summer.

The children's book "Martha Speaks" takes on new musical life in this adorable hourlong children's show at the Lucille Lortel Theater.

"[title of show]," which has reopened at the Vineyard Theater, is a zesty, sweet, Broadway-trivia-riddled musical about creating a zesty, sweet, Broadway-trivia-riddled musical.

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Heard as a modern setting of an ancient text, Benjamin Bagby’s bardic version of “Beowulf” captures the tale’s terror and heroics.

Though José Rivera’s play is thin, it has interesting ideas about time and perception and love, and it’s a good workout for three young actors.

Henry Hewes was a longtime theater critic for The Saturday Review and the founder of the American Theater Critics Association.

Like most shows, "Hot Feet" lost money. But Transamerica, which put up about half of the show’s $8 million cost, still considers it a good investment.