The show: “The Counter” by Meghan Kennedy at off-Broadway’s at the Laura Pels Theater in New York City. What makes it special?: I’d run to see whatever David Cromer directs. It also features Anthony Ed…

Broadway isn't the only place boasting big names. Off-Broadway stages are also getting their fair share of star power this month, with favorites from the silver screen telling fresh stories in New York City's m…

Meghan Kennedy's new play connects two lonely souls over a cup of diner coffee. Lorin Wertheimer reviews. The post Review: The Counter at the Laura Pels Theatre appeared first on Exeunt Magazine NYC.

Despite this obvious shortcoming of The Counter, Anthony Edwards, a growing New York stage presence after much TV and movie fame, resolutely ignores it, never letting Kennedy's contrived writing come between hi…

A diner patron asks a waitress for an extraordinary side dish in Meghan Kennedy’s sweet but shaggy new play.

Early every morning, Paul buys a cup of coffee and jokes around with Katie, the waitress in the otherwise empty local diner in the kind of small town in Upstate New York where the townsfolk talk about the ice o…

Life secrets and surprises are somewhere on the menu at the way-upstate New York diner where Paul (a quiet, thoughtful, and intense Anthony Edwards) has “good coffee made with a bad machine” nearly every mo…

Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood are entrancing as two lost souls at a small-town diner in this humane and artfully presented small-scale drama. The post The Counter appeared first on Theaterscene.org.

Discover The Counter, playwright Meghan Kennedy’s newest Roundabout commission. In this video, Roundabout Theatre Company Teaching Artists Karla Hendrick and Margaret Montagna explore the themes and relations…

Every morning at the local diner in a small town, a waitress refills a regular’s coffee. An unlikely friendship develops and keeps him coming back for more. But when he asks for a shocking favor, it brings to…

Ellen's Stardust Diner will take part in this year's Kids' Night On Broadway in partnership with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: She has already taken on Broadway and the West End. Now Katharine McPhee is back to close up the diner for good! As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the stage and screen star wil…

Ready for another red-eye from LAX.Recently, due to inclement weather, I was stuck in a Delta lounge due to a flight delay for several hours. Since no one can control the weather, and my fellow travelers all s…

Roundabout Theatre Company's world-premiere production of Meghan Kennedy’s The Counter, directed by David Cromer, has completed casting. The show will begin performances at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harol…

Tony Award winner LaChanze will direct Alice Childress' Wine in the Wilderness in her New York directorial debut. The production is part of Classic Stage Company's 2024-25 season, which will also include Will…

The immersive comedy from Two Cent Lion moves from the Fringe Festival to the People’s Building The post ‘Josie’s Diner’ mixes complex relationships with coffee and cinnamon rolls appeared first on OnSt…

Does everybody get the joke in ON THE TOWN? That occurred to me last week at the uber-popular Ellen’s Stardust Diner. How popular? Pass by, and you’ll undoubtedly see a line longer than the ones once witnes…

Randy Beach is a character witness. For more than 40 years the veteran journalist has chronicled some of Connecticut’s most colorful, passionate, and often unsung people, in his columns for The New Haven Reg…

Bebe Neuwirth calls herself a “theater rat.” So it’s natural she’d be sitting in an old-school New York diner on Eighth Avenue, on the edge of the Broadway district, right around the corner from where s…

Ellen's Stardust Diner—a kitschy '50s throwback fused with dinner theater and wrapped in a joyful, fluorescent package—has been a Broadway landmark for nearly 40 years. Opened in 1987 with a team of poodle-…

Correspondent Perry Sook takes viewers inside Ellen’s Stardust Diner and speaks with one of their performers and servers, Starduster Mitch Gray.

Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, you can watch the episode's YouTube premiere at 5PM ET on Wednesday, November 29. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this episode will air i…

The musical transports audiences to 1979 West Virginia, where a mayor is attempting to tear down the region's only Jewish temple to build a RadioShack.

Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, you can watch the episode's YouTube premiere at 5PM ET on Wednesday, November 29. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this episode will air in N…

By Oline H. Cogdill A sandwich is more than ingredients between two slices of bread at Clyde’s, the truck stop diner that is the setting and title of Lynn Nottage’s deliciously insightful play now receiving…

Broadway stars Krystal Joy Brown are starring in Hallmark's new holiday film, 'Heaven Down Here.' Inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, “Heaven Down Here” tells the story of four disparate p…

Steve Guttenberg’s comic and heart-warming Tales from the Guttenberg Bible is an entertaining romp detailing the actor’s rise to stardom and his remarkable career. August 7, 2023: Bay Street Theater in S…

Be on the lookout for The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater news program, on your local TV station. Featured this week: - Get excited for the new play THE COTTAGE with director Ja…

Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, we're offering a first look at the episode. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this episode will air in New York City on Sunday, July 2 at 1…

Broadway Jeopardy! Game 6 Broadway trivia fans! This. Is. ... Jeopardy! The Jeopardy Round, The Double Jeopardy Round and Final Jeopardy, plus two not so hidden Daily Doubles. Good luck! #GetShucked All of…

This double bill of plays from two very different theater companies (Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and CIRCA-Pintig), working in two very different styles—one abstract, movement-based, very self-consciously ar…

Kelsey Blackstone had never been in a food fight before, then she found herself in the Olympia Diner in Newington in the middle of the night with fellow jazz musician Jason LaPierre, filming a music video for t…

The pop-up experience will celebrate the upcoming and highly anticipated Paramount+ original musical series GREASE: RISE OF THE PINK LADIES, which will feature the iconic diner, first seen on screen in the clas…

Be on the lookout for The Broadway Show, the only nationally syndicated weekly theater news program, on your local TV station. Featured this week: - Host Tamsen Fadal sits down with three-time Tony winner Nat…

Before The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadal airs nationwide this weekend, we're offering a first look at the episode. Hosted by Emmy winner Fadal, this episode will air in New York City on March 5 at 4:30PM E…

Fernell Hogan, Nina White, Olivia Elease Hardy, and Michael Iskander visit the Brooklyn Diner in Times Square.

Pulitzer-Prize winner Lynn Nottage's dramatic comedy about four ex-cons employed by a tyrannical diner owner is not only funny, it's also a serious look at the problems they face living in the world outside pri…

Townhouse Diner in Murray Hill OpeningNight.Online As a denizen of midtown East, it's been my pleasure to enjoy meals served locally at the Townhouse Diner in the Murray Hill neighborhood. With a friendly propr…

Lynne Nottage Pits Rigged Justice vs. Self-Empowerment by Patricia L. Morin In Berkeley Rep’s “Clyde’s,” four ex-cons fresh out of prison and a boss straight out of Dante’s Inferno beckon us to chew o…

In this electric, Tony Award®-nominated Best New Play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), the West Coast premiere of Clyde’s is a new comedy that serves up the story of ordinary charact…

In this electric, Tony Award®-nominated Best New Play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), the West Coast premiere of Clyde’s is a new comedy that serves up the story of ordinary charact…

In this electric, Tony Award®-nominated Best New Play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), the West Coast premiere of Clyde’s is a new comedy that serves up the story of ordinary charact…

Paul Reiser's known for everything from "Diner" to "Aliens" to "Mad About You" to "Stranger Things," but his roots are in stand-up comedy, He returns to the stage Saturday at The Bushnell's Belding Theater.

by Caitlin Bitzegaio. @caitorade. NEW YORK, NY - Grammy Award-winner Maren Morris has been sharing her Wicked casting journey on Twitter,...

Lynn Nottage sets "Clyde’s," her ninety-minute, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant play, in a grimy truck stop diner somewhere near Reading, Pennsylvania.

In this electric, Tony Award®-nominated Best New Play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat), the West Coast premiere of Clyde’s is a new comedy that serves up the story of ordinary charact…

by Mike Abrams. @TheWrongCatDied. NEW YORK, NY - Local New Yorker Jeffrey Foster was seen angrily eating a burger at Ellen’s Stardust...

This is an impeccable production of a play whose weaknesses outweigh its considerable strengths. It’s the 1960s episode of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, tracing a century of life in the African American…

Visitor's can step into Wilson's office - or the diner where he liked to write

On April 11, 2022, New York City’s hottest club was Jim’s Diner for one night and one night only. New York Theatre Workshop honored Artistic Director, James C. Nicola, with an evening of unforgettable perfo…

NETworks non-equity presentation of Waitress at the Kimmel Center delivers a production that is full of sweetness, laughs, and lovely music. There is something so comforting about the American diner. The smell …

This year there are two major anniversaries for comedian Paul Reiser (b. 1956): 40 years since his cinematic debut in Barry Levinson’s Diner (1982) and 30 years since the launch of his popular sit-com Mad Abo…

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrew Garfield, and Alexandra Shipp discuss the cut 'Green Green Dress' sequence in tick...tick...BOOM! Andrew Garfield plays Jon, a young theater composer who's waiting tables at a …

Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Karen Olivo in the Encores! Off-Center Concert of Tick, Tick...Boom! (Photo © Joan Marcus) Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s musical Tick,…

Evelyn Hoskins plays Jenna's lovable friend Dawn who's looking for love of her own. Evelyn spoke to us about taking the show on the road and how the pandemic changed her portrayal.

Ellen’s Stardust Diner will honor the late Broadway legend, composer Stephen Sondheim, with Monday in the Diner with Sondheim on January 24th, from 7-11pm.

Proceeds from the tick, tick...BOOM!-inspired line will go to New York Theatre Workshop.

COVID Cancelations Rock Broadway, Moondance Diner Merch Coming, ‘A Strange Loop’ in DC “Today on Broadway” is a daily, Monday through Friday, podcast hitting the top theatre headlines of the day. Any an…

Today's top stories include more cancelled performances, including Hamilton, Cursed Child, and 12 total London productions. In happier news, Lin-Manuel Miranda is launching a new TeeRico collection of Moonda…

Lin-Manuel Miranda is launching a new TeeRico collection of Moondance Diner wear—the latest philanthropic capsule collection for the award-winning composer, actor and director’s merchandize brand that do…

Reviewed by Judd Hollander Told in what can best be described as a continual stream of consciousness, the Broadway play The Lehman Trilogy recounts the rise and fall of what would become a global financial inst…

Broadway legend Joel Grey was honored this week by The Brooklyn Diner with a re-naming of their famous Matzo Ball soup!

Uzo Aduba, of In Treatment and Orange Is the New Black, plays the hilariously tyrannical proprietor of her self-named truck-stop diner in Clyde’s. She lords it over her crew of short-order cooks trying to r…

When is a sandwich more than a sandwich?  When it becomes a symbol of redemption, aspiration and hope, as in Lynn Nottage’s latest play, “Clyde’s,” a lively and funny if sometimes ham-handed — or sho…

The quest to create the perfect sandwich takes on existential tones in Clyde’s, the tasty if occasionally and slightly undercooked new dramedy from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. Though it lacks…

Watch the full interview here: https://bway.world/VanessaJoshuaTTB After a week in theatres, Lin-Manuel Miranda's much-anticipated adaptation of tick, tick...BOOM! has arrived on Netflix! Two of the movie's st…

Netflix brought back the Moondance Diner Food Truck for one day only this weekend in celebration of the release of tick, tick...BOOM! The event featured Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Daphne R…

Netflix brought back the Moondance Diner Food Truck for 1 day only this weekend in celebration of the release of tick, tick...BOOM! The event featured Alexandra Shipp (Cast), Robin de Jesús (Cast), Joshua He…

Catch all the cameos in the “Sunday” musical number at the Moondance Diner in “tick,tock…BOOM”? You may be a theater geek. This is your week. On Thanksgiving Day Thursday, the Broadway casts of “Six…

Watch the full interview here: https://bway.world/LMMTTB After a week in theatres, Lin-Manuel Miranda's much-anticipated adaptation of tick, tick...BOOM! is officially available to stream on Netflix! "tick, t…

In this scene from the movie "tick, tick...BOOM" filmed at the Moondance Diner, Andrew Garfield as Jonathan Larson, Robin de Jesús as his best friend Michael, Mj Rodriguez and Ben Levi Ross as his coworkers at…

When his Broadway show became a global phenomenon, the rigours of daily performance kept the actor and songwriter grounded. Then Disney and Hollywood came calling. Now, the ‘musical theatre fanboy’ has retu…

Watch the full interview here: https://bway.world/AndrewTTB Andrew Garfield chats more about starring in his first big screen musical, how he prepared for the role, and more! After a week in theatres, Lin-Man…

This seems like a very good idea! As previously announced, Tony nominee Joshua Henry and Ciara Renée are heading to the diner in Waitress as Dr. Pomatter and Jenna, respectively. Henry will begin performances …

Andrew Garfield plays Rent composer Jonathan Larson in Miranda’s sugar rush of showbiz highs and lows Lin-Manuel Miranda gives us an unashamed sugar rush of showbiz rapture and showbiz solemnity in this heart…

Not a bad idea at all! Former co-stars of MCC Theater's 2019 Off-Broadway's musical The Wrong Man are heading to Joe's Pie Diner: Ciara Renée and Joshua Henry.

Joshua Henry and Tyrone Davis Jr. are heading to the diner! The three-time Tony nominee and current Waitress cast member will step in for the roles of Dr. Pomatter and Ogie, respectively, beginning on November …

When the cast bursts onto the stage with a blast of warm energy against the quickly cooling Chicago weather, it’s clear that there are few better ways to spend 90 minutes than with gas station-running pump bo…