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Sunday, March 31, 2019

Can Atlantic Records Make Broadway Vet Ben Platt a Pop Star? | Billboard by Rebecca Milzoff

When Platt opened his mouth to sing, the crowd’s eyes widened and mouths silently formed “wows.” Playing an anxiety-ridden teenager in Dear Evan Hansen, Platt, 25, won a Tony for perfo…

SOURCE: Billboard at 09:27AM
Friday, June 1, 2018

How Angels in America Got Its Wings by Rebecca Milzoff

With its record-breaking 11 Tony nominations — the most for a play in Tony history — and star-studded cast led by Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane, the new production of Tony Kushner’s …

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:57PM
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Julie Taymor on Coming Back to Broadway With an Updated M. Butterfly by Rebecca Milzoff

Julie Taymor can still recall the day nearly 30 years ago when she saw M. Butterfly for the first time. She’d heard about “this fabulous new play by this Asian-American wonderful writer�…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Thursday, May 18, 2017

For the Best Male Ballet Dancer in the World, Injury Led to Artistic Rebirth by Rebecca Milzoff

On November 4, 2015, David Hallberg posted a photograph of himself on Twitter, though the person in the photo did not much resemble the David Hallberg his thousands of followers knew. In the…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:00AM
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Marin Ireland, Theater’s Best-Kept Secret, May Not Be a Secret Much Longer by Rebecca Milzoff

When Marin Ireland graduated from drama school in 2000, she had to choose between two jobs: She could go to Vermont to play Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, or she could join the cast of t…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps by Rebecca Milzoff

The “High School Musical” star straps on his tap shoes for “Holiday Inn,” a new musical take on the 1942 film.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PM
Friday, August 26, 2016

Diane Lane Talks Returning to The Cherry Orchard by Rebecca Milzoff

Nearly 40 years ago, Diane Lane acted in Joseph Papp’s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard; this fall, at 51, she returns to the play as tragedy-beset heroine Madame Ranevskaya. T…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:15AM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

Hamilton’s New Aaron Burr, Brandon Victor Dixon, on Tough Songs, Easy Rapping, and Feeling Like Kevin Durant by Rebecca Milzoff

When a musical storms the Tonys as thoroughly as Hamilton did last month, the idea of replacing key members of the original cast — especially if they won the Best Actor award over the show…

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:02PM
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Rockettes Tradition, Set Free by a ‘Banshee Artist’ by Rebecca Milzoff

The choreographer Mia Michaels springs from Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (and more) to the latest Radio City Music Hall spectacular.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PM
Monday, May 2, 2016

Prince Used to Go Crazy for Broadway — and Broadway Stars by Rebecca Milzoff

When Prince died last week, two of the most extraordinary shows on Broadway immediately paid tribute: Hamilton with an onstage “Let’s Go Crazy” dance party and The Color Purple with a …

SOURCE: Vulture at 05:04PM
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Rent: The Oral History by Rebecca Milzoff

When Rent began rehearsals in December 1995, it hardly looked like a phenomenon in the making. Composer Jonathan Larson had only recently quit his job at a Soho diner, its stars for the most…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:06PM
Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Inside Rehearsal for David Bowie’s New Alien Musical by Rebecca Milzoff

“For the first quarter of an hour, I was thinking, Here I am, this boy from Belgium, sitting opposite David Bowie,” director Ivo van Hove recalls of his initial meeting with th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:58PM
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Twyla Tharp on Her Troupe’s 50th Anniversary, Muscle Memory, and Finding Dancers With Personality by Rebecca Milzoff

At 74, choreographer Twyla Tharp is overdue for a breather. Over a 50-year career, she's continually evolved, making dances that blend the rigor and technique of ballet, the loose insoucianc…

SOURCE: Vulture at 04:32PM
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Flesh and Bone’s Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky Talk Center Stage and How Male Dancers Are Stereotyped by Rebecca Milzoff

To hardcore ballet fans, Ethan Stiefel and Sascha Radetsky are two of the greatest male dancers of the past decade, both of whom retired after storied careers at American Ballet Theatre. To …

SOURCE: Vulture at 07:27PM
Friday, October 30, 2015

George Takei on Making His Broadway Debut in Allegiance by Rebecca Milzoff

Star Trek alum George Takei may be best known these days for his delightful online presence, but he’s completely serious about his latest project: Allegiance, a new Broadway musi…

SOURCE: Vulture at 01:39PM
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Sergio Trujillo Realizes His Dream of Salsa on Broadway by Rebecca Milzoff

In “On Your Feet!,” a musical take on Gloria and Emilio Estefan’s rise to fame, the choreographer has found his most personal project yet.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AM
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Broadway Rookies Bruce and Rumer Willis on Preparing for the Stage by Rebecca Milzoff

At ages 60 and 27, Bruce and Rumer Willis find themselves, oddly, experiencing the same career first: a Broadway debut. Rumer, Bruce's eldest daughter with Demi Moore, is strutting Chic…

SOURCE: Vulture at 12:46PM
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

45 Plays Premiering This Fall by Rebecca Milzoff

Hopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:21PM

37 Classical Music and Dance Performances to See This Fall by Rebecca Milzoff

Hopefully, you’ve had a few minutes to play around with our Fall Entertainment Generator. But if you’re looking for straight and simple lists of things to look out for by medium, we…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:21PM
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Lin-Manuel Miranda on Jay Z, The West Wing, and 18 More Things That Influenced Hamilton by Rebecca Milzoff

In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton (which opens on Broadway on August 6 after a much-praised run this past winter at the Public Theater), the founding father emerges as an immigrant …

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:50PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

Magical Realism by Rebecca Milzoff

How the classic film Brief Encounter became a wonder onstage.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Keeping Up With Almodóvar by Rebecca Milzoff

The women of Women.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 05:58PM

Late-Night Double Feature: The 'Rocky Horror Glee Show' Reconsidered by DAVE ITZKOFF and REBECCA MILZOFF

Dave Itzkoff of ArtsBeat and Rebecca Milzoff of Vulture.com chat about the "Glee" episode that paid homage to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

How the Smash–Bombshell Concert Became the Most Successful Theater Kickstarter Campaign Ever by Rebecca Milzoff

NBC’s musical series Smash was widely panned and only lasted two seasons, but two years after its final episode, its small but devoted contingent of fans are just as invested in …

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:10AM
Friday, February 27, 2015

How Robert Fairchild Riffs on Gene Kelly in Broadway’s An American in Paris by Rebecca Milzoff

It seemed preordained that Robert Fairchild would one day play Jerry Mulligan, the World War II vet and expat artist portrayed by Gene Kelly in the 1951 film An American in Paris. “Without…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:05AM
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Everything You Need to Know Before Seeing Into the Woods by Rebecca Milzoff

Into the Woods is a musical that many people care about. A lot. But perhaps you are not one of those people! With Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s twist on fairy tales opening on Christ…

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:15AM
Sunday, December 14, 2014

Life in Pictures: Sting, on Broadway for the First Time in 20 Years by Rebecca Milzoff

“Well, we opened in October,” says Sting, 63, about The Last Ship, the musical he co-wrote and, through January 24, will star in. “And like most of the new musicals on Broadway, we wer…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Peter Pan Syndrome: A Timeline of All Things Neverland by Rebecca Milzoff

Tonight, Allison Williams will don the green tunic to star in NBC’s Peter Pan Live! Since appearing in 1904, J. M. Barrie’s poignant tale, with its themes of eternal youth and defiled in…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Friday, November 7, 2014

The Cast of A Delicate Balance on Living Up to Edward Albee by Rebecca Milzoff

In his 1996 “non-reconsideration” of A Delicate Balance, Edward Albee writes that his play “concerns, as it always has … the rigidity and ­ultimate paralysis which afflicts thos…

SOURCE: Vulture at 08:00AM
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Working Out With Hugh Jackman and His ‘DogPound’ by Rebecca Milzoff

Every morning (except for Sundays), at 5:45 a.m. sharp, the DogPound meets at an elite West Village gym. A year ago, Hugh Jackman assembled this group of 14 guys—who include NYSE president…

SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PM
Sunday, July 20, 2014

The Choreographer Marguerite Derricks Takes On ‘Heathers’ by Rebecca Milzoff

Marguerite Derricks, a Hollywood choreographer known for “Austin Powers” and “Showgirls,” among many other movies and TV shows, brings her skills to the Off Broadway “Heathers.”

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41PM

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