Sunday, May 26, 2013
This week's column examines the original cast recording of Michael John LaChiusa's Giant.
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SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 24, 2013
Laura Benanti—a Tony Award winner for her appearance as the title character in the 2008 revival of Gypsy, more recently seen in In The Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and Women on the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
This is an edgy, gimmicky, nouveau musical wrapped in a gaudily immersive, dinner theater atmosphere; "an electropop opera ripped from a slice of <em>War and Peace</em>,&quo…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:29PMSunday, May 19, 2013
This month's column looks at Blu-ray releases of the Chaplin classic, "Monsieur Verdoux"; Laurence Olivier's stunning "Richard III"; and the Douglas Fairbanks swa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Wouldn't it be hysterical to mix the romantic world of Bollywood musicals of the 1950s with the farcical world of Marx Brothers-like comedies of the 1930s?
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:15PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Byrne has joined with the Public's Oskar Eustis and an altogether impressive production team to turn <em>Here Lies Love</em> into -- what? A musical? A disco musical? A theatric…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:27PMFriday, May 10, 2013
Audra McDonald stepped onto the stage at Avery Fisher Hall in a flowing teal-colored gown last night and once again demonstrated how reliably superb she is on the concert stage. The event, e…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PMThursday, May 9, 2013
City Center Encores! ends its 20th season with a bright and flavorful production of Rodgers and Hart's 1936 musical, On Your Toes. Guest conductor Rob Fisher—the organization's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:50PMSunday, May 5, 2013
This week's column looks at Arthur Bicknell's backstage chronicle "Moose Murdered" and the newly revised vocal score of Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 28, 2013
This week's column examines the new-to-CD original cast album of the 1966 musical A Time for Singing, along with digital releases of the 1962 Bravo Giovanni and the 1963 studio cast albu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Tony winner Barbara Cook began a limited engagement at the Manhattan nightspot 54 Below April 23, and Playbill.com was there.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, April 21, 2013
This month's column looks at Baz Luhrmann's "Strictly Ballroom"; the recent documentary "Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy"; the Judi Dench sitcom, "A Fine Romance"; and Anthony Andrews and…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Jeremy Jordan, Norm Lewis, Julia Murney and Jennifer Laura Thompson joined the New York Pops April 12 to celebrate the work of Academy Award-winning and Tony-nominated composer Stephen …
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:42AMSunday, April 14, 2013
Last week's column was the first of our two-part salute to Broadway's own Elaine Stritch, who will soon pack her bags and retrace her steps back to Michigan. In Part 1, we follo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, April 7, 2013
In honor of Elaine Stritch's retirement this spring, here's part one of a roundup of cast-album tracks that best represent the mellow, earthy, fearless actress known for the musicals…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 31, 2013
This month's column looks at the international blockbuster "Les Misérables"; Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"; Fritz Lang's "Ministry of Fear&qu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 24, 2013
This month's column looks at Tim Adler's "The House of Redgrave: The Secret Lives of a Theatrical Dynasty."
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, March 21, 2013
The sweetly satiric 1966 Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman twisted its way back to New York on March 20, in a City Center Encores! concert revival playing to March …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:10PMThe sweetly satiric 1966 Broadway musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane…It's Superman twisted its way back to New York on March 20, in a City Center Encores! concert revival …
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:03PMSunday, March 17, 2013
This week's column gives a listen to Gifts, Christiane Noll's recent act at 54 Below.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 10, 2013
This month's column screens two early television musicals — Alfred Drake as "Marco Polo" and Jo Sullivan or Barbara Cook as "Babes in Toyland" (though not toget…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSunday, March 3, 2013
This week's column addressed a live recording of Patti LuPone's Far Away Places act from 54 Below, plus songbooks of Jerome Kern ("The Land Where the Good Songs Go") and th…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's Carousel, when done well, is one of the true glories of the world of musical theatre. The New York Philharmonic's current concert version, whi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:00PMSunday, February 24, 2013
This month's column looks at the deluxe, over-stuffed new coffee table book about Les Misérables, plus a survey of world drama entitled "Great Moments in the Theatre," b…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Composer-lyricist Adam Guettel's evening of music at 54 Below — featuring the songwriter and Steven Pasquale and Whitney Bashor — included favorites from The Light in the Pia…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:53PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
For her American Songbook concert at the Allen Room in Manhattan, a show recorded for later broadcast, Kristin Chenoweth embraced some of the greatest characters and songs of the musical the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:03AMSunday, February 17, 2013
This week's column discusses the revival cast album of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood plus a two-fer of 1961 recordings by Chita Rivera.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
For her American Songbook concert at the Allen Room in Manhattan, a show recorded for later broadcast, Kristin Chenoweth embraced some of the greatest characters and songs of the musical the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:01PMSunday, February 10, 2013
Oscar Season has officially approached, and with it new Blu-ray releases of at least four of the 84 Best Picture winners (thus far).
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Joel Grey and Chita Rivera sang the bitter, sweet — and bittersweet — songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb in Lincoln Center's American Songbook se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:38AMSunday, February 3, 2013
This week's column discusses Rebecca Luker's sterling new Jerome Kern collection, "I Got Love," plus the reissue of the Off-Broadway chamber musical No Way to Treat a Lady.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
