Thursday, October 20, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin announced today that, beginning Tuesday, June 13, two-time Tony Award-winner and one of Broadway’s most treasured stars, Donna Murphy, will step into the role of Dolly…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:53PMby Jon L Jensen Every human interaction is fraught with risk and uncertainty. This idea is one of several compelling themes driving Simon Stephens’ enigmatic Heisenberg, now playing on Bro…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:34PMIn celebration and support of GLAAD and ‘Spirit Day’ (October 20), the Curran had released a music video of the song “Ring of Keys,” from the Tony Award-winning musical Fun…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:18AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
by Ryan Leeds To paraphrase the famous song from My Fair Lady: “I Could Have Danced Most of the Night.” I’m referring to The New York Pops’ recent concert at Carnegie Hall that celeb…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:12PMMonday, October 17, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter I don’t usually find comics like Nick Kroll and John Mulaney funny. Cartoonish characterizations of grumpy old men in bad gray wigs and tastelessly grungy clothes deliv…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:25AMSunday, October 16, 2016
by Ryan Leeds The Real Actors of NYC is proof that lavish costumes, gigantic sets, lush orchestras, and full-scale dance numbers are not a prerequisite for a great musical. Quite the opposit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:27AMSaturday, October 15, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Imagine a nerdy, standup comic who wears horn-rimmed glasses, is slight of build, has a tuft of hair, and whose material stems from personal issues of depression, self-wo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:25AMThursday, October 13, 2016
Dress Circle Publishing will release The Untold Stories of Broadway, Volume 3, the latest in a series by acclaimed historian and producer Jennifer Ashley Tepper on Tuesday, November 15. Have…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:54AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Sondheim fans love the cult favorite, Merrily We Roll Along, the 1981 bomb that lasted only 16 performances on Broadway. Atlas Media has announced that its upcoming feature-length documenta…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:22AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Host committee members Betty Buckley, Misty Copeland, Kelli O’Hara,Bernadette Peters, and Janice Reals Ellig present the 20th Anniversary of Nothing Like a Dame on Monday, October 24, 201…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:36AMMonday, October 10, 2016
The Drama League (Executive Artistic Director, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks) has announced the roster of special guest performers for the 33rd Annual Musical Celebration of Broadway honoring Tony…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
by Ryan Leeds After leaving Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this week, where a terrific production of The Producers is being staged, my guest turned to me and asked, “I wonder if, in 70 year…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:57AMFriday, October 7, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Jean Genet’s once-controversial 1947 play The Maids (Les Bonnes) has had a substantial number of revivals despite its challenging avant-garde style and subject matter, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:49PMThursday, October 6, 2016
The York Theatre Company will honor legendary Oscar and Tony award-winner Joel Grey with the 25th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at 2016 Oscar Ham…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:36PMWednesday, October 5, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter A headline in the Times (October 3) notes: “For ‘Birth of a Nation,’ Goal Is to Inspire, Not Incite,” pointing to the political implications of the soon-to-open m…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:08AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
It’s show time! After a gloomy late summer when Broadway shows were shuttering like a hurricane was about to blow into town, things are picking up with a slew of new openings. This month, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:44PMby Jon L Jensen Molly Pope brought back her critically acclaimed act, “A Star is Born,” to Feinstein’s/54 Below on Wednesday, September 28. The show not only highlights Pope’s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:31AMMonday, October 3, 2016
by Ryan Leeds It’s good that solid ground rests under the enormous pop-up tent where Cirque du Soleil’s KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities is currently enjoying a limited engagement a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:32PMby Jim Gladstone A few times a year, singer-pianist-musicologist-raconteur Michael Feinstein books himself into his eponymous cabaret room at San Francisco’s Hotel Nikko. Given that Feinst…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMSunday, October 2, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Nearly three years ago I saw a magic show called Nothing to Hide, directed by Neil Patrick Harris and starring two master prestidigitators, an American named Derek…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:49PMThursday, September 29, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter He never uses the words “the fog of war,” now so memorably attached to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s handling of Vietnam; still, the same idea is behind mu…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:24PMTeatro Proscenium Limited Partnership (Richard Stursberg, CEO) have announced the world premiere of the Garth Drabinsky production of Sousatzka, the new musical by three-time Tony Award…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:28AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O’Reilly, Producing Director) is proud to full casting for Finian’s Rainbow. Directed and adapted by Charlott…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:26AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Tony Award nominee Jennifer Simard will play “Cindy Lou Who” in the world premiere of Matthew Lombardo’s Christmas comedy in couplets, Who’s Holiday, to be directed by Carl Andress…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:34AMMonday, September 26, 2016
Sometimes a trip to New York City isn’t in the cards for theater fans. Fortunately, BroadwayHD brings the best of live theater right into your living room. These three titles have been…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:30PMSunday, September 25, 2016
by Ryan Leeds “I will feel a glow just thinking of you and the way you look tonight” are the classic lyrics from Jerome Kern and Dorothy Field’s 1936 tune, “The Way You Look Tonight,…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:14AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Javier Muoz and Brandon Victor Dixon, the new stars of Hamilton on Broadway, and New York City Gay Men’s Chorus have joined the list of special guests at Chita Rivera’s landmark conce…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:13AMThursday, September 22, 2016
Producers The Shubert Organization and The Nederlander Organization announced today that Broadway veteran Mamie Parris will assume the iconic role of “Grizabella the Glamour Cat” in the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:38PMby Samuel L. Leiter As I watched the Pearl Theatre Company’s middling revival of A Taste of Honey, British playwright Shelagh Delaney’s once controversial, kitchen-sink dramedy, I…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:15AMTuesday, September 20, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Yes, we all know about the horrible explosion in Chelsea the other day, but let me remind you that there’s a far more benign blast of energy bursting only a few …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:03PMSunday, September 18, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Maybe one day there’ll be a Lindsay! or a Koch! (John! or Ed! don’t cut it) but to date there have been only two Broadway musicals devoted to New York mayors, a not p…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:04PM 
