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The New Group revives Wallace Shawn's 1990 monologue about a man feeling guilt for his privileged life

A new musical revue at Birdland salutes women songwriters from Katherine Lee Bates and Nora Bayes to Donna Summer and Stevie Nicks

Scott Brown and Anthony King's hilarious salute to those whose passion for musical theatre far exceeds their artistic taste and talent moves to The Actors' Playhouse

Amanda Plummer gives a performance of power and sympathy that adds gritty sparks to an elegant production

A sense of flippant musical comedy silliness, combined with a legit soprano of crystalline clarity, provided a keen balance of artistry and entertainment in Kristin Chenoweth's Metropolitan Opera concert debut

Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's 1966 charmer is given a sublime revival with Kristin Chenoweth, Brian d'Arcy James and Marc Kudisch all in scrumptious form.

The New York Gilbert and Sullivan players present Sir Arthur Sullivan's rarely produced final operetta.

The smooth-singing Steven Maglio pays tribute to one of the great interpreters of the American popular song

The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players return to City Center with two classic operettas

Michael Dale shares some of his most memorable theatre moments of 2006 and asks you to share yours

This new musical of sexual awareness offers vibrant melodies, poetic lyrics, exhilarating direction and an exuberant young cast, but where's the emotion?

The 13th performance of High Fidelity, also being the press performance I attended, wound up being the show's final night on Broadway. A pity. I much prefer reviewing enjoyable musicals than eulogizing them.

Les Freres Corbusier's pageant of 8-12 year olds telling the story of L. Ron Hubbard is the hippest holiday show in town.

With its sharp wit, incisive lyrics and music that's ferociously insistent when not rapturously melodic, <i>Company</i> is such a well-written show that, with the help Raul Esparza's spot on starring performance, it can still pack a wallop despite director John Doyle's interpretation that regularly threatens to suck the life out of it.

Israel Horovitz's play begins with the present day chancellor of Germany, Rudolph Stroiber, deciding to make amends for the Holocaust by inviting 6 million Jews from anywhere in the world to come to his country, where they'll be given jobs and granted automatic citizenship.

The Opening Doors Theatre Company's premiere production of their Closing Notice series is the infamous sequel to <i>Bye, Bye, Birdie</i>

The balance of power is dangerously uneven in David Hare's play which debates the pros and cons of the Iraqi War

The Actors' Company Theatre mounts a sterling new production of David Story's 1970 Tony-nominated comedy/drama

This new musical revue spoofs all the dreaded stress that comes every December, like trying not to embarrass yourself at multiple holiday parties, keeping family gatherings civil, buying the right present for your better half and trying not to gain weight while everyone's throwing food in your direction

Old dramatic chestnuts get a healthy workout in this two-person story of young meets old, washed up meets on the rise and substance abuser meets… well, substance abuser