Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:20PMAre you a Ham-a-holic? Launching tomorrow, Ham App is an iPhone app that does one thing: help you enter the lottery to see Hamilton. The hit musical is sold out for months, so the best chanc…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:08AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
by Ryan Leeds For the Generation X Broadway crowd, Friday night’s New York Pops concert was a fond, nostalgic trip down memory lane. The evening’s theme, 42nd on 57th: Broadway Tod…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:39PMMonday, March 14, 2016
by Jim Gladstone “My mom took me to see Annie at the Curran Theater when I was eight years old,” remembers Lesli Margherita, the Fremont-born Broadway star who’s back on native turf …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:02PMFriday, March 11, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter The zeitgeist’s obsessive fascination with issues of sexual confusion and gender identity continues with Anna Ziegler’s Boy, an engrossing yet inconsistently satisfyi…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:19PMThursday, March 10, 2016
While I wouldn’t call it groundbreaking, there is a guilty pleasure shaking up Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre: Disaster!, a new(ish) musical by Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick. As the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:49AMWednesday, March 9, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Fewer shows in recent Off Broadway history have been more provocative than Straight. The three-person play, set in contemporary Boston, is a complex love triangle between Ben (…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:32PMMonday, March 7, 2016
On Monday, May 2, 2016, The New York Pops presents its 33rd birthday gala, celebrating the revolutionary collaborations of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the songwriting team be…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:22PMSaturday, March 5, 2016
The 2015-16 season is kicking into high gear, with three unique musicals opening this month that are sure to catch your attention. Here are our top picks of what not to miss… Southern …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:45AMFriday, March 4, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Blending heavy emotional drama with irreverent stand-up comedy is no easy task. Neal Brennan has mastered that art in his solo show, Neal Brennan 3 Mics. Brennan, whose most no…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:49PMThursday, March 3, 2016
It is not easy to watch The New Group’s revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Buried Child. Originally produced in San Francisco, then New York City, in 1978, the play wa…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:58AMWednesday, March 2, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter The fact that good writing in a play doesn’t necessarily mean good playwriting is exemplified by Noah Haidle’s cloudy Smokefall, now at the Lucille Lortel in an MCC T…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:56AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
by Ryan Leeds Fans of televison’s Glee (also known as “Gleeks”) will probably recognize Ali Stroker from her 2013 appearance on the popular show. That project was the beginning of her …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:27PMMonday, February 29, 2016
by Ryan Leeds I hope that Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola have thick skins. As authors of the new off Broadway play, Straight, they should brace themselves for a flood of comments, both e…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:39PMWatch out, Lin Manuel Miranda – there might be competition for this year’s Tony Award thanks to Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, and a new musical about to crush. . . well, just a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:36PMColman Domingo’s new play, Dot, now playing at the Vineyard Theatre, has vestiges of a familiar kitchen sink drama. In fact, Allen Moyer’s realistic Act I set features functioning applia…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:04PMSaturday, February 27, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter The Mint Theater Company, forced to leave its crowded nook on the third floor of a West 43rd Street office building, has reopened in the comfortable environs of City Cent…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:50PMFriday, February 26, 2016
by Ryan Leeds The 1930s was not a particularly bright decade for Broadway. Still reeling from the 1929 stock market crash and in the midst of the Great Depression, audiences were not as plen…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:30PMby Samuel L. Leiter The f-bombs are so frequent in Charles Messina’s A Room of My Own, an often fabulously funny autobiographical family farce-drama, that even a 10-year-old kid gets to fr…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:45AMThursday, February 25, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Solo shows about dead celebrities brought back to life to spend an evening reminiscing about their triumphs and tragedies are part of every season. As with Mabel Madness:…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:49PMby Bobby McGuire Watching Hughie, director Michael Grandage’s cleverly understated production of Eugene O’Neill’s late career one-act play, brought to mind a flight I took a few years …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:44PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter The body of an American referred to by the title of Dan O’Brien’s darkly compelling play, being given a sharply acted and staged production by Primary Stages a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:32PMby Ryan Leeds Chazz Palminteri’s father had a consistent message for his son: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent. Don’t waste yours, son. Promise me.” Palminteri, a born and…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:25AMMonday, February 22, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Angel Reapers is a collaborative project by playwright Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and director-choreographer Martha Clarke. Following Chéri, it’s the second of t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:38PMSunday, February 21, 2016
Forget what you think you may know about clowns, or at least the Ringling Brothers variety (not that there’s anything wrong with a dozen or so of them pouring out of a car in a three-ring …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:14AMThursday, February 18, 2016
Every month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out editor Matthew Wexler’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:34PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Do you “get a kick out of champagne”? You might want to consider an evening of Cole Porter’s witty lyrics and melodies: American Showstoppers featuring Fred Barton & His Orchestra.…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:54PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Broadway’s hottest show of the season made a special appearance at last night’s Grammy Awards, and blew the roof off (along with winning Best Musical Theater album)!
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:26AMMonday, February 15, 2016
“Have a hanky at the ready,” said Alan Cumming in his Carnegie Hall debut last week that celebrated the release of his new album, Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Carlyle (ava…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:01PMFriday, February 12, 2016
by Samuel L. Leiter Strangemen & Co.’s The Woodsman, a darkly imaginative prequel to the story most of us know as The Wizard of Oz, is back in New York after several earlier incarnati…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:39PMThursday, February 11, 2016
Our sister blog, Global Cocktails, beat us to the rum punch when it came to the big news about Frozen‘s arrival on Broadway next season. Click here for the Disney details!
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