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The 3rd Annual Broadway Cabaret Festival was filled with magic moments musical theatre geeks... I mean connoisseurs.

Michael Dale takes at look at the Roundabout's revival of 'Pygmalion' and Charles Busch's 'Die Mommie Die!'

A look at 'The Ritz', 'A Feminine Ending' and Kristin Chenoweth 's latest honor.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) proudly announces the winners of its NYMF Awards for Excellence, selected by an independent jury from the 34 new musicals presented at the 2007 Festival.

Theresa Rebeck's new play has a terrific set-up, but the predictable plot directions coupled with questionable directing choices makes the evening frustrating and disappointing.

In her sex-centric variety show, Margaret Cho and company give us a happy and healthy dose of body positive antics that are so sweet, silly and approachable you can have a great time while completely forgetting to be aroused.

Gerard Alessandrini's newest edition of the long-running satirical revue may not be most vicious version of the show but it certainly ranks up there among the best.

Capsule reviews of Such Good Friends, Love Sucks and JC2K

Garry Marshall and Paul Williams have turned the hit TV show into a good-hearted family musical that can stand on its own.

It's taken 18 years for The great Horton Foote's terrific Reaganomics-era comedy to trickle down to New York since its 1987 premiere but director Michael Wilson's very funny and very human production at Primary Stages is well worth the wait.

Moliere's classic comedy gets buried under Ivo van Hove's high concept production

Capsule reviews of Unlock'd, The Brain From Planet X and Gemini, the Musical

The Mint provides a rare opportunity to see Leo Tolstoy's drama in an impressive and gracefully staged production

Having faith, losing it and trying to understand it are the key issues in this warm, funny and engrossing play, blessed with an exceptional cast in director Ethan McSweeny's moving production.

At an age when a certain amount of wear and tear on the voice is forgivable Marilyn Maye displays gleaming pipes and a rich sense of musicality and lyric interpretation.

Thirty years after her last Broadway musical appearance, Penny Fuller shines in her cabaret debut.

In Neva Small's solo show her career full of meaty roles in unsuccessful musicals is glossed over in such a pixyish, upbeat manner that you might find yourself perpetually wondering what she's leaving out.

A promising Fringe musical protesting Wal-Mart labor practices loses its bite after being revised for Off-Broadway.

Playwright Charles Mee and director Tina Landau adapt a play by Euripides into an abstract pageant that not-so-subtly questions current American foreign policy, amidst some good laughs, some interesting visuals and some scantily clad boys and girls.

Grease is by no means the best musical ever to play on Broadway, but director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall's revival suggests that it might be the most indestructible one.