Second Stage moves it’s Metamorphoses to Circle in the Square for a Broadway contract. A new play based on the myths of Ovid.
Playwright and director Mary Zimmerman weaves a modern sensibility through many of Ovid’s classic tales  King Midas, Narcissus and his reflection, Orpheus and Euridice to create Metamorphoses, a visually arresting and contemporary new [...]

Julie Taymor’s breathtaking staging of the Disney animated cartoon reinvents the possibilities of theater for a whole generation: not for her the literalness of Disney’s previous screen-to-stage adaptation, Beauty and the Beast.
Instead, Taymor thrillingly reimagines the story of Simba the lion cub’s voyage to adulthood as a show of theatrical daring, in which the humans [...]

Victor Hugo’s classic novel of the French Revolution, chronicling the unjust persecution of Jean Valjean by police inspector Javert, has been spectacularly musicalized by French writer-composers Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil and English lyricist Herbert Kretzmer, and brilliantly realized in Trevor Nunn and John Cairda’s landmark production. First produced at Britain’s Royal Shakespeare Company, “Les [...]

How comfortable are you with your New York cappuccino malaise? Have you, like Marjorie Taub, become a “retail terrorist,” dropping ceramic figurines on the floor of the Disney Store in a desperate cry for help? What you need is a Lee Green, one of those serendipitously-appearing long-lost friends who has met more celebrities than Letterman, [...]

Jonathan Larson, the electrifyingly talented composer of this relocation of the story of La Boheme to contemporary Lower East Side New York, never lived to see the miraculous success of his creation: he died of an aortic aneurysm at age 36, on the day of the show’s final Off-Broadway dress rehearsal.

In QED Alan Alda gives a tour-de-force performance as physicist Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate with a larger than life personality and a career that included developing the atom bomb and explaining the puzzle of the space shuttle Challenger’s explosion. The two-character play was given its world premiere las spring at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper [...]