Claire Danes gets mixed reviews for Broadway debut
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Actress Claire Danes admitted it was a  challenge to master a cockney accent for her Broadway debut,  but winning over critics with her role in a play that inspired  the musical "My Fair Lady" has proved more difficult.
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NEW YORK  Â The scent of symbolism hangs heavily over "Come Back, Little Sheba," William Inge's early 1950s drama of domestic discord now getting its first-ever Broadway revival.
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Christopher Sieber, late of the Broadway editions of "Chicago," "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Into the Woods," is living the life that many New York actors once had in the theater but rarely do anymore: He closed Sunday in one show (the New York City Opera's production of "Cinderella" with Eartha Kitt, Dick Van Patten, Lea DeLaria, et al.) and now immediately jumps into another, playing Sir Galahad in Mike Nichols' "Monty Python's Spamalot," with Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce and Tim Curry, which prevues Dec. 21-Jan. 23 in Chicago before its Broadway opening at the Shubert on March 17.
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When the harrowing play Frozen opened on Broadway this summer, audiences were shaken by the authenticity of Yorkshire playwright Bryony Lavery&#39;s portrayal of the mind of a serial killer.
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Its newest Broadway show gets the usual kiss-off from the critics. What's their problem?
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"The Little Mermaid" could struggle to  find legs in the transition from screen to stage after critics  on Friday panned the latest musical offering from the Walt  Disney Co. a day after its debut on Broadway.
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Irish accents are the flavor of the  month on Broadway with three out of five of this year&#039;s Tony  Award nominees for best actor starring in plays set on the  Emerald Isle.
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Stars and directors defend the movie version of Vanity Fair following a lukewarm reception by critics.
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Kathleen Turner makes a confident debut as a theater director with this touching revival of Beth Henleyâs comedy.
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Oscar-winning film actor Kevin Spacey received some hostile reviews as he launched his first season at the helm of London&#39;s famous Old Vic theater with &quot;Cloaca,&quot; a play about four men in the throes of a mid-life crisis.
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It was evident, early on in this opening piece, that Nejla Y. Yatkin is after more than choreography.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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The audience was giddy at the opening of the revival of Melvin Van Peebles's "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death," but whether he was enjoying himself remained difficult to tell.
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Claire Danes has joined the  cast of Richard Linklater's "Me and Orson Welles," an  adaptation of the period coming-of-age novel by Robert Kaplow.
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Starting Tuesday night (Oct. 5), Manhattanites have a "new" Sondheim show to get excited about, though potential ticket buyers will have only six chances to see/hear it.
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Whether this season's meager collection of new plays is simply a quirk of scheduling or the beginning of a larger trend is uncertain.
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Broadway's record-breaking musical "A  Chorus Line" has made a lukewarm return to the stage with  critics' praise mainly limited to the show's original concept  when it debuted 31 years ago.