A Townâs Darkest Day Is Playing Out on Stage
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Not everyone in Waterloo, Ill., is keen on the idea of a musical that chronicles the destruction of the nearby village of Valmeyer in the Great Flood of 1993.
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From desperate times to an embarrassment of riches. From crying poor-mouth to fending off the wolves. Mayor Daley certainly is a man of extremes these days.
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In the few days since a drama company in the Midlands canceled the run of a contentious play in the face of violent religious protests, British theater has been grappling with
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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Set at a small Catskills  resort in the 1950s, when writers were blacklisted for alleged  Communist sympathies, Michael Elias&#39; play is shot through with  the kind of nostalgia that signals deep personal involvement.  But it leaves out the details of why this means something to  him, and so it fails to engage the audience with an emotional  back story.
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Broadway inspires a morbid fascination. Ever since vaudeville went respectable, a century or so ago, everyone from social critics and city planners to choreographers and doormen has predicted the imminent
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In the town where liberty was born, a perfect record, it seemed, was about to die.
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Three New York theater productions offer contrasting coming-of-age tales.
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The performers are not stars, but the price is competitive.
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A versatile showmanÂs final local act is a disappearing one.
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At Willie Nelsonâs salute to Americaâs small farmers on Sunday, some of the performers took on a tricky job: making the crowd understand that the day wasnât really about music.
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A canceled play, a damaged theater, a playwright in hiding.
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In a small abandoned warehouse in an  industrial area north of Denver, local bands Bad Weather  California, Born in the Flood and Meese are playing a very  unusual gig.
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SALEM, NH -- Red Sox fans can be superstitious, and students and teachers in one New Hampshire town are using ritual and music to try to bring the team luck.
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Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city.
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Skies here were overcast by day, rainy by night. An uninitiated visitor might expect around-the-clock gloom to deepen despair over the local nine and their two-game
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By Georgia Evdoxiadis Daily Herald Staff Writer