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Two new CDs from Masterworks Broadway and PLAYBILL Editors' Choice feature two dozen star turns from performers who were little known on opening night... Click in for the review and for never-before-seen photographs of some of the stars exclusively on BroadwayWorld.com.

In Transport Group's production of William Inge's classic, director Jack Cummings III takes a bold and extremely effective risk in interpreting the piece impressionistically as a nightmarish memory.

Athol Fugard's new play based on his experiences with 'the Olivier of South Africa' is a healthy serving of theatrical comfort food.

The two time Tony Award winner makes her return to the cabaret stage with warmth and panache

Encores! puts on a sparking concert reading of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 satire of crooked cops and Broadway revues

The new Broadway production Eric Bogosian's 1987 comedy/drama shows that its themes not only haven't dated, they've been amplified.

Sony Masterworks' reissues of the original Broadway cast recordings of <i>Sweeney Todd</i>, <i>Merrily We Roll Along</i>, <i>Sunday In The Park With George</i> and <i>Into The Woods</i> feature heightened vibrancy and clarity.

Des McAnuff will direct Raul Esparza as Jello Biafra and Julia Murney as Cynthia Plaster Caster in <i>California Über Alles: The Dead Kennedys Musical</i>

Adam Rapp's absurdist quirkfest has its flaws, but Paul Sparks and Heather Goldenhersh are hilarious as would-be lovers in a dangerous world.

Terrance McNally's new play argues in favor of gay marriage rights through simple romanticism and good-natured humor.

At 70-something years of age, Marilyn Maye's pipes are still golden and her engagement at The Metropolitan Room is about the closest you'll get to an evening composed entirely of showstoppers.

Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Lee Pockriss and Anne Croswell's musical version of Oscar Wilde's classic is fun and entertaining.

British actor David Oyelowo is gritty and majestic in a production that never matches his performance.

In Al Grand's zesty and fun Yiddish translation of Gilbert and Sullivan's classic, young Frederick is a former Yeshiva student and the Major General is an Orthodox Jew who bakes fine honey cakes and is a friend of Benjamin Disraeli.

Brian Harris' innocuous trio of one-act comedies isn't nearly as entertaining as the attractive young couple sitting directly in front of me who were fondling, tickling, massaging, kissing and snuggling each other throughout the play.

Craig Lucas' deceptively light comic romantic fantasy can send you out of the theatre smiling, and then keep you awake at nights wondering.

The final production in the Signature Theatre Company's outstanding August Wilson season is the 1980's entry of the author's cycle of ten plays depicting a decade-by-decade account of black experiences in the 20th Century.

Director Lillian Groag draws on Lewis Carroll and Monty Python in New York City Opera's new production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic.

Lin-Manual Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes's musical celebration of Washington Heights is easily one of the best musicals to open in New York this season, if not the best.

George S. Irving is featured in Musicals Tonight!'s reading of Kander and Ebb's 1968 musical