Theater Review | 'Speedmouse': Two Nimble Australians: Much Talk, Many Antics
In their theatrical lark “Speedmouse” the affable Australian doofuses known as the Umbilical Brothers practice a chaotic brand of unadulterated silliness.
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Theater Review | 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream': Unsmooth Course of True Love, Scampering Over a Connecticut Lawn
Music by Stew, the composer-lyricist of Broadway’s “Passing Strange,” is the chief novelty of this Shakespeare on the Sound production.
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Karl Malden, Actor Who Played the Uncommon Everyman, Dies at 97
Mr. Malden’s half-century in show business carried him from theater to films to television’s “The Streets of San Francisco.”
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Harve Presnell, Singing Actor, Dies at 75
Mr. Presnell’s operatic baritone thrilled audiences in the stage and film versions of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”
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Theater for a New Audience Announces Season, With Room for More Shakespeare
The leaders of Theater for a New Audience said they were hoping to remount their recent acclaimed productions of “Othello” and “Hamlet” in the 2009-10 season.
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Theater: Hits That Never Can Say Goodbye
“Thriller Live,” a show in London devoted to the music of Michael Jackson, is standard jukebox fare.
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Theater Listings: July 3 — 9
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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Theater: Passion and Rage, in Tight Focus
A recent screening of “Phèdre,” starring Helen Mirren, was the first “live” broadcast of a stage production from the National Theater in London.
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An Appraisal: A Stage for Social Ego to Battle Anguished Id
The productions of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who died on Tuesday at 68, always and immediately made a striking impact as theater.
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High School Stars Honored With Theater Awards
N.Y.U. hosted the first-ever National High School Musical Theater Awards, in which the best actor and best actress winners receive $100,000 scholarships to Tisch.
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On the London Stage: New York Theater Under the Knife
Gerard Alessandrini’s “Forbidden Broadway,” which spoofs shows playing on both sides of the pond, opens for the third time in London.
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Theater Review | 'Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse': When Bad Things Happen to Rich People
The earnest actors in Carole Gaunt’s play can’t quite overcome the script’s clumsiness and clichés.
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Music Review | Steven Pasquale: Dreamy, Wee Small Hour Sounds With a Boyish Hint
Steven Pasquale, who made his cabaret debut at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency on Sunday, is a polished jazz crooner in the Chet Baker mold.
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Who’s in Charge of This Show? She Is
In a banner year for female stage directors, parity remains elusive.
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Liked but Not Well Liked
This biography of Arthur Miller taps previously unseen material and shows the playwright trying to hold on to his soul in midcentury America.
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Theater Review | 'Sweet Storm': Going Out on a Limb on Honeymoon Night
Like the best country music, Scott Hudson’s “Sweet Storm” benefits from restraint.
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Theater Review | 'Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe': Raising the Roof, Lining His Pockets
Every scene in “Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe” is so full of infectious energy that when, in the end, the whole feels a bit less than the sum of the parts, it hardly matters.
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Theater Review | 'Twelfth Night': I Love You, You’re Perfect. You’re a Girl?
This scintillating new production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is one of the most accomplished Shakespeare in the Park productions in some time.
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Theater Review: Taking on Adult Hypocrisy With All They’ve Got
“Speech and Debate,” at TheaterWorks in Hartford, is a slyly funny play about three oddball teenagers who confront adult hypocrisy.
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Theater Review | New Jersey: A Pas de Deux of Anxious Parent and Rebellious Teenager
“Evie’s Waltz,” a drama about the parents of a troubled teenager playing at the New Jersey Repertory Theater, unfolds into a thriller that raises more questions than it answers.
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Theater Review | Long Island: A Cast of Nuns Performing ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on a Cruise
The plot line in “Meshuggah-Nuns!” is that the original cast gets sick and the nuns step in. The effect is decidedly borscht belt.
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Arts | New Jersey: The Rising Star Awards: Singing! Dancing! Scholarships!
Rahway High School was the big winner at the annual awards ceremony honoring theater-loving teenagers in New Jersey.
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The Stars Are Aligned, and They’re Playing It Big
Several stars on stage in London’s West End are showing why they don’t require a camera’s close-ups to loom larger than figures on an Imax screen.
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Theater Review | 'Fubar': Drugs and Lots of Dot-Com Dottiness in San Francisco
The dot-com bubble — well, its splintered psyches — are the subject of the feverish and engrossing “Fubar.”
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Morton Gottlieb, a Broadway Producer, Dies at 88
Mr. Gottlieb was a Broadway stalwart who produced four plays that were nominated for best-play Tony Awards, one of which, “Sleuth,” was the winner in 1971.
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Arts, Briefly: Spider-Man Musical Names 2 of Its Stars
Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming will be in the upcoming Broadway musical “Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark.”
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T. Scott Cunningham, an Off Broadway Stalwart, Dies at 47
Mr. Cunningham was an actor who found comedy in the plight of the lovable loser in Nicky Silver’s breakthrough Off Broadway play “Pterodactyls” and Douglas Carter Beane’s “As Bees in Honey Drown.”
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Shelly Gross, Producer for Broadway and Suburbs, Dies at 88
Mr. Gross brought a broad spectrum of entertainment to suburban theaters along the East Coast and also produced more than a dozen Broadway shows.
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Hanne Hiob, Brecht’s Acting Kin, Dies at 86
Ms. Hiob was a German actress who was a daughter of the playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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Summer Stages: Theater Festivals
Selective listings of events in the United States and Canada.
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