Sunday, February 12, 2012
A cut on the original cast recording (don’t call it a soundtrack!) of “The Book of Mormon” is a cheery little tune called “I Am Here for You.” Native New Yorker Robert Lopez will b…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMI’ve seen a lot of Stockard Channing at the gym lately. Not on an adjacent treadmill or stair-climber, but on the overhead TVs, where ads for her play “Other Desert Cities” have been r…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, February 9, 2012
It started out like a flop in 1981.
And despite wonderful Stephen Sondheim songs, the middling new production of “Merrily We Roll Along,” at Encores! through Feb. 19, isn’t an…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:18PMMonday, February 6, 2012
Opera up-and-comer Laquita Mitchell has been lavishly praised for the power and pure tones of her soprano.
But as she fine-tuned her Violetta for New York City Opera’s “La Traviata,” …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 08:00AMSunday, February 5, 2012
Theresa Rebeck: With “Seminar” on Broadway, “Smash” on NBC tonight and a new play in Houston in May, she makes overachievement look easy.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AM“I came to watch,” whispers Debra Messing as she strides onto the set of “Smash,” where an elaborate dance number has been filming on and off for three hours.
Cameras roll. …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, February 2, 2012
Any revival worth its salt — and an audience’s time — will illuminate a play in fresh ways.
Director Sam Gold’s Off-Broadway production of John Osborne’s “Look Back in A…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Who needs diamonds? For Broadway actress Megan Hilty, Marilyn Monroe is a girl’s best friend. The kind of pal that gets you two great gigs.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:16AMMonday, January 30, 2012
Good-bye split ends, hello split personality. Constantine Maroulis snagged a Tony nomination playing a shaggy-haired rocker in “Rock of Ages.” In spring 2013 on Broadway, he’ll star as…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:57PMTeaching moments about the evils of greed don’t come more musically majestic than “Gotterdammerung” (Twilight of the Gods), which culminates in nothing less than the end of the world.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:59PMSunday, January 29, 2012
1 “The Book of Mormon” (Eugene O’Neill Theatre) The ace original principal cast just renewed for a year. Praise be.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, January 26, 2012
A dead unwanted infant. A secret homemade grave. A spiritually bankrupt, seriously sick family.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMIn “Wit,” prickly English professor Vivian Bearing confronts something even more uncompromising and unforgiving than herself: late-stage ovarian cancer.
“It is not my intenti…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, January 25, 2012
Mid-’60s flashbacks don’t come brighter or more candy-colored than Petula Clark singing her chart-toppers from that era like “Downtown,” “I Know a Place” and “A Sign of the Tim…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:19PMSunday, January 22, 2012
Despite my issues with the production, the quality of the material and performances earned “Porgy and Bess” four stars from me and, now, a coveted top-10 slot.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMYou don’t leave humming the sets.
But scenery definitely has the potential to make a Broadway show purr.
I was reminded of that at my second visit to “How to Succeed i…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, January 20, 2012
The Fat Lady is singing at a leaner price.
Following six months of sour labor negotiations, New York City Opera announced something sweet: All remaining tickets for two upcoming pro…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 01:22PMTHE HISTORY MYSTERY Tonight-Feb. 19, TADA! Youth Theater, 15 W. 28th St.
How do events from childhood shape people as adults and the world at large?
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMWith talent, industry and plenty of luck, an actor will play lots of roles. And not just fictional ones.
Take Pun Bandhu, 37, who’s making his Broadway acting debut in the drama…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMThursday, January 19, 2012
No name. No dialogue. No clothes.
So it goes in “Untitled Feminist Show,” the new offering from playwright and director Young Jean Lee, who is synonymous with downtown daring.
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SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:27PMWe need to talk about Kevin. Spacey, that is. Specifically, the two-time Oscar winner's ripsnorting star turn in “Richard III,” now at Brooklyn Academy of Music through March 1.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Yankee Stadium is getting a huge new wall this summer, but A-Rod and other sluggers don’t have to worry about hitting homers over it.
On July 6, Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters i…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 09:51PMPow! Thwack! Bam! The behind-the-scenes battle at “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has turned nastier than an irritated Green Goblin. Producers of the $75 million comic-book musical filed…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 07:32AMTuesday, January 17, 2012
Traveling “The Road to Mecca” can be a trying trip.
The 1988 play by South African writer Athol Fugard is wordy and circuitous and waves metaphors around like emergency flares. …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMSunday, January 15, 2012
New York City Opera has made music for 68 years, introducing to avid audiences Brooklyn’s own Beverly Sills and many other stars along the way.
Now the only sound coming from comp…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:00AMFriday, January 13, 2012
From her Tony-nominated turns in “Les Miserables,” “Chess” and “She Loves Me” to the film cartoon “Pocahontas,” Judy Kuhn is known for her clear, crisp singing and for connec…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:23PMThe highly anticipated Broadway revival of the 1965 musical “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” starring Harry Connick, Jr., will end its run at the St. James Theatre on Jan. 29.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:16AMThursday, January 12, 2012
Seventy-six years after its New York premiere, the great American opera “Porgy and Bess” by George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose and Dorothy Heyward has returned to Broadway in a CliffsNot…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 11:00PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
It's been a fairy tale come true for fans of “Into the Woods.”
“Chicago” director Rob Marshall is bringing the popular 1987 Broadway musical created by Stephen Sondheim and …
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 06:14PM1. “The Book of Mormon” Yep, the “South Park” guys’ musical lives up to the hype. Prepare to laugh, cry, flinch, blanch and, finally, want more. Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 03:01PMHow to say “deja vu” in Mandarin? Who knows.
But watching Zayd Dohrn’s thoughtful but underdone play “Outside People” downtown, you’re apt to feel it if you’ve seen D…
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:38PM 
