Sunday, 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 08:04PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
The Lilly Awards Foundation will present its fourth Broadway Cabaret: Broadway Stars Performing the Work of Women Songwriters on Monday, October 17 at The Cutting Room (44 East 32nd Street)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:56AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Producer Scott Rudin announced the cast for the most breathlessly anticipated theatrical event of the season: the upcoming Broadway revival of Michael Stewart’s (book) and Jerry Herman’s…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:03AMThursday, September 15, 2016
The New York Pops, led by Music DirectorSteven Reineke, will launch its 34th season at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, celebrating the legacy and timeless works of Alan J…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:32AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Truth be told, this interview wasn’t 15 minutes. In fact, it was well over 45 and I have a feeling that if I hadn’t had a pressing deadline, the Tony Award-winning Betty Buckley would ha…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:04AMTuesday, September 13, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter As with many tasty meals, what goes into a worthy play is often rather commonplace, depending for its effect on how the playwright seasons and prepares the familiar ingre…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:15AMMonday, September 12, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Hershey Felder, who practically has made a career of creating one-man shows about musical geniuses (Gershwin, Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, and Berlin), has done it again wit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:51AMFriday, September 9, 2016
BROADWAY FOR HILLARY announces Broadway Calls for Clinton, the organization’s first action day of phone banking for the Clinton campaign. Broadway’s brightest will come together for t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:06PMCirque du Soleil has been entertaining audiences with its magical, whimsical, and gravity-defying aesthetic since its province-wide tour throughout Quebec in 1984. More than 30 years later, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:56PMThursday, September 8, 2016
Have we tired of Hamilton yet? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop founding father musical bio garnered 11 Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Last week the Broadway hit grossed more th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:15AMTuesday, September 6, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Does salvation inhibit creativity? It may well be a question that plagued the late stage legends Gwen Verdon and her husband Bob Fosse in the 1960s. After Verdon read reporter …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:49PMFriday, September 2, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Leslye Headland’s The Layover, now being slickly produced at Second Stage under Trip Cullman’s smooth direction, begins on Thanksgiving weekend as a plane waits to ta…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12AMThursday, September 1, 2016
Broadway is slowing coming out of its summer hibernation, but our eyes are wandering toward Off Broadway and beyond for our top picks of the month. All the Ways to Say I Love You An unconven…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:04AMWednesday, August 31, 2016
The music of the iconic 1954 Warner Bros. film A Star is Born— brought vividly to life by award-winning cabaret artist Molly Pope — will return to Feinstein’s/54 Below for a one…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:03PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
Telly Leung (Photo: Leon Le Photography via The Broadway Blog.) Telly Leung, the Broadway and television star of “Glee,” Godspell, Rent and more, returns to Feinstein’s/54 Below…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:54AMMonday, August 29, 2016
What better way to spend a night in Central Park than with live music from Broadway’s worldwide smash, featuring stars from Chicago The Musical! Current cast members performing on this…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:51AMFriday, August 26, 2016
Two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated Michael Feinstein returns to Feinstein’s at the Nikko with a special salute to the one-and-only Judy Garland for four performances …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:50PMWednesday, August 24, 2016
The Off Broadway Alliance has announced that its hugely popular semi-annual ticket promotion 20at20, will return from September 5th to September 25, 2016. 20at20 makes $20 tickets avai…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:02AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
“Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow and oh, so mellow.” Anyone who’s familiar with the iconic musical, The Fantasticks, will recognize this indelible lyric…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:30AMFriday, August 19, 2016
The new Cirque du Soleil touring show inspired by James Cameron’s record-breaking movie Avatar, TORUK – The First Flight, will be presented at Barclays Center on September 7-11, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:33AMThursday, August 18, 2016
Tony Award-winning Broadway legend Betty Buckley will return to Joe’s Pub at The Public with her new show, Story Songs, for an exclusive seven-show engagement from September 22 to Septembe…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMWednesday, August 17, 2016
Classic Stage Company has announced that Jason Sudeikis will star as John Keating in the world premiere of Dead Poets Society, a new play based on the beloved 1989 film. Written by Academ…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:04AMMonday, August 15, 2016
by Ryan Leeds After a brief re-location to Union Square, The Irish Repertory Theatre has returned to a newly refurbished home in Chelsea that is every bit as intimate, but much more modern t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:12PMSaturday, August 13, 2016
For the first time, The Broadway Blog breaks form with our “15 Minutes with…” column, taking this opportunity to introduce you to up and coming musical theater writer/composer Aaron Mi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:48AMThursday, August 11, 2016
It was announced today Tony Award-Winner Cynthia Erivo and Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry will star in a special one-night-only benefit concert version of Jason Robert Brown’s se…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:42PMWednesday, August 10, 2016
Today Keen Artistic Director Jonathan Silverstein announced his plans for the upcoming season, which explore themes of self-discovery. Silverstein stated: “In the fall we will present a re…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:22PMTuesday, August 9, 2016
By Ryan Leeds Gretchen Cryer (mother of television/80s movie star Jon Cryer) has an interesting tale to tell about her intimate, Off Broadway show, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking i…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:37PMMonday, August 8, 2016
Summer heat in New York City is no joke. We’d almost rather sit through a revival of Mamma Mia! than suffer in the stench of Gotham at its worst. Fortunately, no such production exists… …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:21PMFriday, August 5, 2016
Like most festival shows (at the New York Musical Festival and otherwise), the curtain time was considerably delayed at the performance I attended of Newton’s Cradle. But it gave me the op…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:49PMThursday, August 4, 2016
Ragtime On Ellis Island has announced that a limited number of seats to the highly anticipated site-specific developmental concert on Monday, August 8, will be distributed to the public b…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:03PMCameron Mackintosh announced today that his acclaimed new production of Boublil and Schönberg’slegendary musical Miss Saigon – a recent smash hit in London – will return to N…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:03PM 
