Friday, April 13, 2018
During the first half of the 20th Century, there was no artist as important to the development of American musical theatre from strictly light entertainment to a legitimate dramatic art form…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:51AMThursday, April 12, 2018
While audiences gather at Lincoln Center to see Lerner and Lowe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's classic, there's a different kind of Pygmalion story being played out at Studio …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:49AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
The current American president is never mentioned in bookwriterlyricist Quiara Alegria Hudes and composerlyricist Erin McKeown's lovely and touching chamber musical MISS YOU LIKE HELL. But e…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:10AMMonday, April 9, 2018
There's a theory, hopefully an accurate one, that the things that make you an outcast in high school are the things that make you awesome as an adult. And maybe that's why scenes in the buoy…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:22AMSaturday, April 7, 2018
Magazine ads and television commercials may reach millions more, but perhaps the highest compliment I can pay Havana Club Rum's immersive theatre experience, AMPARO, is that it effectively g…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:53AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Broadway's legendary composerlyricist Stephen Sondheim will be making a guest appearance next season on Rachel Bloom's musical romantic comedy television series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in an epi…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:27AMSaturday, March 31, 2018
Older character men hungry for fresh scenery to chew will certainly look forward to the day when Shem Bitterman's The Stone Witch becomes available for regional and amateur productions.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:20PMFriday, March 30, 2018
It's been nearly three decades since the superb stage artist Glenda Jackson took her last opening night bow on Broadway, playing Lady Macbeth in 1988. Since then she's been working in the so…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:00AMThursday, March 29, 2018
As with the Broadway season's earlier pop concert extravaganza, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, this theatre critic readily admits to not exactly being an ideal arts journalist to authoritatively rev…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:14AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
The best news coming out of 44th Street these days is that the refurbishing of the Helen Hayes Theater has been completed and that Second Stage, while retaining its longtime Off-Broadway hom…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:38AMMonday, March 26, 2018
It wasn't exactly a stellar weekend for Donald Trump. Nationwide protest rallies condemned his party's relationship with the NRA, a woman revealed on national television that her life was th…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:26AMSunday, March 25, 2018
Though the songwriting team of Robert Wright amp George Forrest is best remembered by Broadway enthusiasts for adapting the music of Edvard Grieg into SONG OF NORWAY and similarly using the …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:00PMFriday, March 23, 2018
It was less than five years ago when little girls around the globe were presented with a computer-animated rebellious role model who was fed up with hiding her true self to conform to other …
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:01AMMonday, March 19, 2018
Typically, the immediate attraction between Cinderella and the handsome prince is presented as simply a matter of physical chemistry, but in Company XIV's newest variation of Charles Perraul…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:20AMFriday, March 16, 2018
The smiling, bobbing head and swaying shoulders of the self-proclaimed Parrothead who accompanied this Jimmy Buffett neophyte to the breezy fun new jukebox musical comedy, ESCAPE TO MARGARIT…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:52AMInnovative genius Norman Lear will forever be remembered for expanding the limits of what television comedy could do by bringing Archie Bunker, and his everyday brand of casual and not-so-ca…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:40AMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Teaser There is a knockout of a surprise moment, cleverly devised and wonderfully played, contained within Pulitzer-winner Bruce Norris' mini-epic THE LOW ROAD, now getting a rollicking prod…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 10:52AMMonday, March 12, 2018
'We take care homes,' a Polish immigrant living in New York's Borough of Queens bluntly explains to a young newcomer from Ukraine who has yet to get settled.'Us kinds people, we take care ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:52AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Historically, it hasn't been unusual for writers like Amantine Lucile Dupin better known as George Sand and Nelle Harper Lee published as Harper Lee to take on traditionally male or androgyn…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:24AMSunday, March 4, 2018
'One of the few great musical comedies of the last thirty years.' - Howard Taubman''What a show What a hit What a solid hit' - Walter Kerr''The best musical of the century.' - John Chapman'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:20PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
One of the great characteristics of live theatre is that, as opposed to film and television, no matter how iconic a performance is, no matter how indelibly attached an actor may seem to a ro…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:22PMWednesday, February 28, 2018
'Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians,' sings a young lady feeling the bright television lights on her face as cameras capture her every move for a national audience in Richard T…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:26AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
'I have a friend - She's a liberal. I don't know if there are any liberals here...'
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 01:37AMSunday, February 25, 2018
Introverts weren't exactly regarded as sexy, at least not as a norm, when Edward Albee's one-act classic 'The Zoo Story' premiered in 1958, launching the career of a playwright whose name be…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:29PMFriday, February 23, 2018
Intended for Ethel Merman, created by Carol Channing, reinvented by Pearl Baily and based on a character made famous by Ruth Gordon, the title character of Dolly Gallagher Levi in Hello, Dol…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 06:21AMThursday, February 22, 2018
It was nearly two years ago when The Public Theater opened the first major New York production penned by the relatively unknown Sarah Burgess. Her tersely scripted and aridly humored DRY POW…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:07AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
There are no live actors involved in with the Scottish theatre company Vox Motus' new storytelling attraction, FLIGHT, and though New York's theatre critics were invited to sample showings a…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 03:00AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
With a name like BAR MITZVAH BOY, it should be no surprise that the current musical at the York is a coming of age story. What is surprising is that the composer of this intimate piece is Ju…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:28PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Do you have any idea who I am, Eve Ensler asks the doctor who suggests radiation treatment of her vagina to prevent the resurgence of her cancer. Do you have any fucking sense of irony
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:51AMMonday, February 12, 2018
It might be easier to pity the hardworking gentleman at the core of Martin McDonagh's new darkly comic drama, who loses his job when his employer eliminates his position, if it weren't for t…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:07AMSunday, February 11, 2018
When the subject of New York City Center Encores comes up among musical theatre enthusiasts, the conversation almost invariably steers to what shows they should be presenting in their series…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:52AM 
