Thursday, October 15, 2015
Producers Dori Berinstein and Bill Damaschke announced today the complete cast for Gotta Dance, the new Broadway-bound musical about professional basketball’s first ever aged 60-and-o…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:33PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
by Ryan Leeds Senior citizens must really be irritated when people comment on their longevity. Like an adolescent at a family reunion who is forced to hear, “I remember when you were this…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:38PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
Tony winner Joe DiPietro’s Clever Little Lies, which premiered two years ago at New Brunswick’s George Street Playhouse and was shown last summer in the Hamptons, is a clever litt…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:59AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Andrew Lloyd Webber and R&H Theatricals, a division of Rodgers & Hammerstein, an Imagem Company, announced today that high schools and youth performance groups in the USA and Cana…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:22PMby Samuel L. Leiter Stories about the fluidity of gender identity seem currently to be the coin of the media realm, and not only because of Caitlyn Jenner. Ever since 1970, when Myra Breckin…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:20PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Before there was Miley Cyrus, before there was Beyonce, before Madonna and Mariah… even before Diana Ross… there was Carol Channing! Now, the 95-year-old sex symbol is back with …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 05:24PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
by Mark Lingenfelter Sometimes, when you go to the theater, the experience rises above any preconceived expectations. Sometimes, it falls below. And, as in the case of Broken Box Mime Thea…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:21PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
French poet Charles Perrault (1628-1703) might not know what to make of Company XIV’s wildly sensual and dynamic interpretation of his 1697 fairytale, Cinderella. But it’s hopeful that t…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:43PMby Ryan Leeds Remember that song Stephen Sondheim wrote about bleu cheese? Okay. You’re right. Sondheim did not write an opus to Gorgonzola, but it was a clever addition to the New Jerse…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:19AMMonday, October 5, 2015
What does October have in store for Broadway and beyond? Our picks include a violent romantic obsession, epic sci-fi trilogy, and good old-fashioned musical revival. Go to the theater! Fool …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:02PMFriday, October 2, 2015
by Ryan Leeds While the tri-state area braces for a weekend full of chill and rain, the New Jersey Performing Arts center (NJPAC) forecast includes shining stars in rays of spotlight as it h…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:07PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Changes are in store for one of New York City’s preeminent classical theater companies. Brian Kulick will step down as the Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s acclaimed Classic Stage Com…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 04:26PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
We’re getting out of Gotham for a chance to see the illustrious Bernadette Peters in concert at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) on October 16. The Tony Award-winning star wil…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:23PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
More than 400 guests packed the Absinthe Theater at Caesars Palace last night for the Fifth Annual Solo Strips to watch 15 of Las Vegas’ hottest performers strip down for solo performa…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:33PMby Samuel L. Leiter Epistolary plays—like Jerome Kilty’s Dear Liar, A. R. Gurney’s Love Letters, and Sarah Ruhl’s Dear Elizabeth—are far less common than epistolary novels. Perhaps…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:09PMMonday, September 28, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter In 1970 Peter Brook revolutionized stagings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by stripping away the encrustations of romanticist directors and designers, placing the play in…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:10AMSaturday, September 26, 2015
By Samuel L. Leiter It’s everyone for themselves in Thomas Bradshaw’s unfulfilling Fulfillment, now at the Flea in a production whose crisply effective staging by Ethan McSweeny isn’t …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:04AMFriday, September 25, 2015
Psycho Clan, the artistic team behind New York’s well known Nightmare Haunted House, has announced that it will shift it’s unique brand of terror from theatrical haunted house to a serie…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:18AMThursday, September 24, 2015
Yellow Sound Label has announced the new album from Telly Leung, star of this season’s new Broadway musical Allegiance opposite George Takei and Lea Salonga. A dynamic singer and …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 03:21PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
The boys of Cirquelesque are back for a monthly, gravity-defying show at The Slipper Room. After headlining the Atlantis cruises final night and rave reviews, the boys are itching to show M…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:28AMSaturday, September 19, 2015
by Samuel L. Leiter In Hamlet in Bed, three sets of cheekbones—often lit from beneath to accentuate their razor-sharp sculpting—compete for attention with Michael Laurence’s improbable…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:38AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Company XIV—one of our favorite (and slightly naughty) downtown performance companies— returns with their 2015-2016 Off-Broadway season, which will include three adult only shows: the wo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:10AMThursday, September 17, 2015
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. Th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:15PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
Following last year’s auspicious debut of “Theater Close-Up”— a unique collaboration between THIRTEEN and the large community of New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theaters �…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:13AMMonday, September 14, 2015
Who says New York City is the only place where the hottest entertainers can lose some layers for a good cause? The fifth annual Solo Strips returns to Las Vegas featuring the Strip’s h…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:34AMFriday, September 11, 2015
For those of you who didn’t see Beautiful and catch the many references to the Brill Building, where Carole King and so many other singer/songwriters penned their legendary tunes duri…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:36PMThursday, September 10, 2015
Life can be a drag. Especially when you’re a down-on-your-luck Elvis impersonator trying to make a living in Florida’s Panhandle. Such is Casey’s (Dave Thomas Browne) predicament in Th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:09AMTuesday, September 8, 2015
For those within striking distance of Broadway, early September is the best time to snag discount tickets. Broadway Week returns (September 7 – 20) and some of favorite shows are still…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 06:48PMMonday, September 7, 2015
Labor Day seems like a logical time to look back at one of our favorite musicals of the 1950s, The Pajama Game. Written by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, the …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:09AMSaturday, September 5, 2015
Broadway’s Gigi didn’t last long, but that doesn’t mean that another French ingenue, Amélie, can’t find her way to the Great White Way by way of Berkeley Rep. Am…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:18AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Dance celebrations continue this September as Rolex presents Career Transition For Dancers’ 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee: A Star-Studded Retrospective on Monday, September 28, at 7:…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:04AM 
