Political Theater: The congressional testimony of Valerie Plame, the "spy" who became a Vanity Fair cover girl, was staged to embarrass the Bush White House. It actually completed Plame's exposure as a fraud.When all was said and done, the least preposterous sight at Friday's House...

In some respects, you can't fault "Legally Blonde," the kinetic new musical at Broadway's Palace Theatre. It really moves.The lavish show (reportedly with a more than $12 million price tag) has energy to spare, a forward motion provided by ace director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell that simply...

There are lots of reasons why I had a great time at the infectiously dopey new musical, Legally Blonde, and the show’s dogs are two of them. One adorable dog in a Broadway show is understandable. Two looks like carelessness. But not here—not in Legally...

THEATERWell, if you don’t feel guilty about crossing the picket lines, Mel Brook’s Young Frankenstein at the Hilton Theatre is still the hottest ticket on Broadway, albeit with a slightly less fiery flame. According to the Observer’s John Heilpern, the “production is handsome,...

Blonde-haired women are victims of chauvinism, as society reduces them to the stereotypes of being promiscuous, unintelligent, or hedonistic solely on the basis of their hair color. Unlike sexism or racism, this type of discriminative prejudice against hair color is either laughed upon or ignored.