Monday, April 1, 2024
The veteran film and TV actor on his role in 'The Notebook,' his first Broadway show in 46 years.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:37PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Toby Stephens talks about 'Corruption,' the new play about the UK phone hacking scandal. “We’re still living in the aftermath of all the stuff that came out," he says.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:55PMThursday, March 21, 2024
The playwright talks about the revival of his Pulitzer Prize winning 'Doubt' on Broadway and his new show Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:54PMMonday, February 26, 2024
The "And Just Like That..." and "Gilded Age" star talks about playing a performance artist (and seven other roles) in the Off Broadway show "The Seven Year Disappear."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:37PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
In 'Spamalot,' Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer pays homage to—or shamelessly satirizes—pop icons. “They change every night,” she says. “I do a little Celine Dion—although there are some…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:14AMMonday, February 5, 2024
"I learn more about directing while acting and more about acting while directing," says David Cromer, who directed 'Prayer for the French Republic' on Broadway and is currently appearing in …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:06PMFriday, January 26, 2024
In 'Maestro,' Michael Urie played choreographer-director Jerome Robbins. He now finds Robbins’ spirit haunting the rehearsal spaces at New York City Center, where he's performing in 'Once …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:19AMMonday, January 8, 2024
After playing the devil himself in 'Hadestown,' Patrick Page keeps it on the dark side with 'All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:44AMTuesday, December 26, 2023
"I’ve got this idea for a musical, and I wondered if you wanted to work on it with me,” Sondheim said to David Ives. Thus began the collaboration that resulted the adaptation of two Luis…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:15AMMonday, December 11, 2023
“My character didn’t exist a year ago," Broadway veteran Chip Zien says of his role as the Rabbi in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's long gestating musical. "It’s a real gift.”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:53AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
'Translations' is the first of three Brian Friel plays that Irish Rep is staging this season. "It has a kind of politics, but it’s so embracing of human life," director Doug Hughes says.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:44AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
"You can’t cheat with Sondheim,” says Gerard Alessandrini of the song spoofs in 'Forbidden Sondheim: Merrily We Stole a Song.' “I try to make the rhymes correct—and still be funny."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
As he prepares for a two-night concert of the Sondheim musical 'The Frogs,' Nathan Lane explains how what started with a chance bookstore encounter grew to a collaboration that involved seve…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:17PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
“The idea of collaborating with your late father demands a deep breath,” John Weidman says of revisiting his dad's show 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:34PMThursday, October 12, 2023
"It’s a masterpiece," the director says of 'Merrily, We Roll Along.' "It’s one of the great, great pieces of musical theater. It belongs on a Broadway stage."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:31AMMonday, October 9, 2023
He made his Broadway debut 41 years ago playing the title role in 'Pippin' and has appeared on TV in everything from 'Matlock' to 'The Wizards of Waverley Place.' But this is John Rubinste…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:11PMMonday, September 25, 2023
Since 'Hamilton,' he's been Oscar nominated, won a Golden Globe, written his autobiography, and recorded an album. Now he's back on Broadway in 'Purlie Victorious,' a show he first saw as a …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:05PMFriday, September 22, 2023
Playwright Theresa Rebeck has two shows this season—'Dig' Off Broadway and 'I Need That' on Broadway—and she's already at work on her next play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:15PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Arnie Burton made his mark on Broadway with the Hitchcock parody 'The 39 Steps,' in which four actors play over 100 roles. The raucous 'Dracula, A Comedy Of Terrors' allots him a mere two ch…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:06PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
In 1974, four-year-old Ian Shaw visited his father Robert on the set of 'Jaws' and was scared by Bruce, the mechanical shark. Forty-nine years later he's playing his father on Broadway in 'T…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:52AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
The Tony winning actress swings between ecstasy and misery in this two-person show.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:01PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
"The hardest part of putting a comedy together is that you put it together without an audience," Jason Alexander says of his Broadway directing debut, 'The Cottage.' "You just keep your fing…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:27PMMonday, July 17, 2023
“There’s humor in every difficult situation,” Edelman says of 'Just For Us,' which tells the story of this Orthodox Jewish comedian attending a gathering of white supremacists in Queen…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:52PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
For the first time in 20 years Stevenson is back in New York, drawing standing ovations nightly in 'The Doctor.' She talks about updating a play from 1912 for the world today, why she loves …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00AMMonday, June 5, 2023
“I call it a fever dream,” the actor says of the cabin-in-the-woods thriller. “There aren’t a lot of plays like this that end up on Broadway."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:55PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Doug Wright calls Sean Hayes "a national treasure." But at first he had trouble picturing him as the drug-driven, witheringly witty, piano-playing genius Oscar Levant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:42AMFriday, April 7, 2023
As a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music approaches, the team behind shows like 'Ragtime' and movies like 'Anastasia' talks about their past, present, and future.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:51PMWednesday, March 29, 2023
The playwright explains how the new musical 'Shucked' started as a spoof of 'Hee-Haw' and blossomed into a corn-fed 'Brigadoon.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:20PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Emerging from the pandemic, Christine Pedi discovered her vision had dimmed. But it hasn't stopped her from taking the stage Off Broadway in 'The Rewards of Being Frank.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:52PMThursday, March 2, 2023
Director and choreographer Wayne Cilento — who was part of the original company of 'A Chorus Line' — on his life onstage and bringing 'Bob Fosse's Dancin'' back to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Director Anne Kauffman says 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window' touches on everything from history, philosophy and politics to interpersonal relationships and identity. "It’s the kitc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:37PM 
