A new musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker comes to Broadway, but the production is too muddled to make an emotional impact.

David Lindsay-Abaire?s comedy about a wealthy homeowners association thrown into disarray makes a case for the same social compact it skewers.

?The Fear of 13,? about a man who spent two decades on death row for a murder he didn?t commit, is a story that the playwright says she ?couldn?t shake.?

Cinco Paul?s loving spoof of Golden Age musicals, adapted from a TV series, comes to Broadway, where its charming musical numbers can really shine.

Cecily Strong and Corey Stoll star in this two-hander about connecting over a meal that becomes much deeper than two colleagues socializing out-of-office.

Lust is the comic engine driving the action of a riotous revival of one of Noël Coward?s early plays, with Rose Byrne and Kelli O?Hara, at Todd Haimes Theater.

Mark Gatiss plays a Charlie Chaplin-like dictator in a timely Royal Shakespeare Company revival.

The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn?s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play?s lack of rigor.

As portrayed in shows like ?Smash,? ?Slings & Arrows? and ?American Classic,? life onstage is a grab-bag of archetypes both hilariously wrong and a little bit right.

Stars and luminaries honored the dance company?s 100th anniversary with dinner, performances and a champagne toast at the New York Public Library.

John Lithgow in ?Giant,? a triumphant revival of ?Death of a Salesman? and vogueing cats at ?The Jellicle Ball?: These productions are worth knowing about.

Producers and the cultural authorities hope that technology can overcome a language barrier and take the country?s shows to the world.

Roundabout Theater Company, one of the four nonprofits with Broadway houses, plans three Broadway shows next season.

A new London production highlights the story?s racial element and shows how much has changed since the play?s 1963 premiere.

Adrien Brody and Tessa Thompson make confident Broadway debuts, but the uneven script makes for a narratively slippery prison drama.

Other picks include the historical hip-hop musical ?Mexodus,? an Anne Carson radio play and a century-old play about machines replacing humans.

Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice?s 1923 classic.

Mark Rosenblatt?s Broadway play, starring John Lithgow as the British children?s book author, draws from Dahl?s comments over the years.

The pair performed a scene from ?The Fear of 13? at The New York Times.

The actor-comedian said he will return to Broadway this fall with a new solo show called ?860,? named for the address of his destroyed family home.

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