Playing Around

History The Great Famine tore through Ireland from 1845 to 1849. Potato blight, absentee landlords, and single-crop dependence were [...]

What could be duller than a suburban town meeting? NOT. Arriving in set designer David Zinn’s beautifully detailed, barrel-vault chamber, [...]

Based in part on a lecture by Historian Andrew Lear Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery is one of the most visited in the world. Established [...]

In the final concert of its Carnegie Hall season on May 12, The Orchestra Now (TON) performed four seldom-heard works from the late 1930s. [...]

There are other venues in New York that present contemporary puppet work, but none so committed and connected as the Basil Twist lead [...]

The 1992 film Mr. Saturday Night was met with a “meh” reception. Billy Crystal’s valentine to Borsht Belt-style comedy found itself [...]

From the title song of Butterflies Are Free through musical theater (most recently, the juggernaut that is Wicked), film, television, [...]

It takes real guts to debut a Fanny Brice/Funny Girl show while negative reviews of the Broadway revival continue to land squarely on the [...]