Theater Review
The Boy Who Lived, Casting a Humorous Spell
By DANIEL M. GOLD
“Potted Potter,” at the Little Shubert Theater, takes a humorous look at the seven Harry Potter books in 70 minutes.
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A selection of Tony Award nominees, including Kelli O'Hara in "Nice Work if You Can Get It," perform songs and scenes from this year's shows. Watch full performances here.
ArtsBeat
More Than Attention Must Be Paid: 'Salesman' Sets Record Ticket Price
By PATRICK HEALY
Premium tickets topped out at $499 apiece for the last performances of the Tony-nominated revival of Arthur Miller's play.
Theater Review
The Fathers of Teenage Daughters Have Secrets Too
By JASON ZINOMAN
Jaime Castañeda directs the premiere of Fernanda Coppel’s play about two young women growing up fast in Los Angeles while their fathers strain to recapture their own youth.
Yawns to Laughs: Audiences Shape a Play
By PATRICK HEALY
Nowhere are previews regarded as more crucial than at Off Broadway theater companies staging new plays and musicals.
Theater Review
Loneliness of 7-Eleven for Indian Immigrant
By RACHEL SALTZ
Mayank Keshaviah’s new play, “Rangoon,” looks at an Indian immigrant father and his American-born children in the modern-day South.
Chameleon Sheds His Camouflage
By ROB WEINERT-KENDT
Giancarlo Esposito is portraying a character with a lot of similarities to himself in “Storefront Church,” a new play written and directed by John Patrick Shanley at the Atlantic Theater.
‘The Simpsons’ as a Text for the Ages
By ERIC GRODE
In “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” the Civilians transform an episode of “The Simpsons” into something quite different at the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington.
A Broadway Hangout, Old Chum
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
54 Below, a new cabaret in the theater district, opens next week, aiming to be “Broadway’s living room.”
Arts | Long Island
For Children, a Summer to Shine Onstage
By KARIN LIPSON
Long Island theaters and day camps offer a variety of programs for theatrically inclined children.
Theater Review
She’ll Ditch Her Skirts and Track Down Her Man
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
In “Amelia,” written by Alex Webb and performed on Governors Island, a woman journeys through the wartime South in search of her soldier husband.
Theater Review
An Identity Inspired and in Flux
By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
An air of disorderly fabulousness pervades “Jukebox Jackie,” a show with Justin Vivian Bond at La MaMa that pays spirited tribute to Jackie Curtis, one of the gender adventurers who orbited Andy Warhol.
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2012 Tony Awards
Complete coverage of this year's awards, including slide shows, the list of nominations and more.
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Most Popular Shows
Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending June 3.
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- Jersey Boys
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William Hanley, Playwright and TV Writer, Dies at 80
By DENNIS HEVESI
Mr. Hanley, an acclaimed playwright, went on to win two Emmys for his television scripts.
ArtsBeat
Theater Talkback: Up Close, Feeling Very Personal
By BEN BRANTLEY
What better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and the communal?
A Theatrical Patriarch, Onstage and Off
By FELICIA R. LEE
A visit with James Earl Jones, who has garnered his latest Tony nomination at 81 for “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.”
ArtsBeat
Behind the Poster: 'The Bad and the Better'
By ERIK PIEPENBURG
Danica Novgorodoff, a graphic novelist and illustrator, talks about her poster design for Derek Ahonen's play, which is being produced by the theater company the Amoralists.
Overhaul of State Theaters Opens Turkish Cultural Rift
By SUSANNE GÜSTEN
Artists fear that proposed changes are in fact a way for a deeply pious government to deal a blow to the arts.
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In Cleaned-Up City, a Package Tour of the Seedy Past
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO
The legacy of vaudeville, burlesque and cabaret is celebrated in Spiegelworld’s new tent show “Empire.”
Theater Review
A Swedish Love Triangle, With Some Slight Revisions
By ERIC GRODE
“Playing With Fire,” August Stindberg’s rarely performed comedy of manners, is transported to a wealthy African-American enclave in the 1920s.
Theater Review
Caught in the Prison That Is Their Country
By BEN BRANTLEY
Athol Fugard’s “My Children! My Africa!” is a tale of friendship, idealism and unintended consequences in the twilight of South African apartheid.
In the Region
Arts | Connecticut
Shipwrecked on a Magical Island, Windswept by Words
By SYLVIANE GOLD
Taken from the text and copied in flowing Renaissance script, words pour down the back wall and across the stage floor in a performance of “The Tempest” at Hartford Stage.
Arts | New Jersey
A Young Witness Propels a Farce
By ANITA GATES
“My Wonderful Day,” one of Alan Ayckbourn’s lesser-known but not-less-funny comedies, is the final production of the Two River Theater Company’s 2011-12 season.
Arts | Long Island
A Frisky Musical With Many Lives
By MICHAEL SOMMERS
A revival of “Cats,” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and T. S. Eliot, is at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport.
Arts | Westchester
Death on the Moor, Played for Laughs
By ANITA GATES
In a happy spoof of what was once a serious piece of fiction, the moors of Devon, England, are a comedy location.
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Many of these shows are currently in previews.
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Theater
By STEVEN McELROY
“As You Like It,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Richard III” are among the popular choices for this summer’s theater festivals.
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Life of a ‘Salesman’
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