Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1978 (DRG) The last word in star vehicles, The Act centers on Liza Minnelli as “Hollywood’s own Michelle Craig,” performing in Las Vegas. Between the numbers …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:09AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Michael McKean would have an honored place in entertainment history if only as co-creator and co-star of one of the funniest, most creative films ever made: This Is Spinal Tap. (If you haven…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:32PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The beloved Bob Merrill/Michael Stewart musical Carnival has opened in a Musicals Tonight! production at Theatre Row. Heading the cast are Ali Ewoldt at Lili, Scott Guthrie as Paul Berthalet…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:28AMMonday, September 15, 2014
The Mint Theater Company has gained a stellar reputation for researching, finding, and presenting plays that greatly entertained audiences back in the day but now are shrouded in obscurity -…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
The current issue of The Sondheim Review includes Michael Portantiere's recent interview with Mary Rodgers; the publication has given Talkin' Broadway permission to reprint the interview onl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Some performers (and theatergoers) have mixed feelings about the "actors doubling as musicians" trend that seems to have grown stronger in musical theater over the past decade or s…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:37AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
The 2014 High School Musical Theater Awards showcased the best and brightest of young performers from throughout the country. Here are photos ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMSunday, June 29, 2014
One of America's greatest composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser in a sense had three careers -- as a writer of stand-alone songs during the Tin Pan Alley era, songs for Hollywood films, and scor…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:21AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Depending on one’s point of view, it can be either depressing or strangely comforting to realize that human foibles and societal issues we think of as fairly recent are actually not.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
It's been a good couple of seasons for those of us who are such great fans of William Inge that we want to see even his most obscure works on stage. Last year, The Actors Company Theatre (TA…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:54PMMonday, May 5, 2014
A memorable phrase coined by Henry James to describe Washington, D.C. is an apt title for Anthony Giardina’s The City of Conversation, now receiving its world premiere production by Lincol…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Malcolm Gets was most recently seen on stage as one of the witches (!!!), along with Byron Jennings and John Glover, in Macbeth, and before that opposite Will Chase in The Story of My Life. …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:20PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
This year's East Bonnet competition was filled with delights, from a hilarious opening number with Rory O'Malley as an ambitious actor and Michael Riedel as Satan, to the roof-raising finale…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:00AMSunday, March 30, 2014
I consider myself spoiled -- or maybe privileged is the better word -- to have seen and heard several performances of Frank Loesser's operatic musical The Most Happy Fella with full orchestr…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:30PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
The swift closing – after only 11 previews and 21 performances – of Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy on Broadway in 1982 has always mystified me.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Little Mary Sunshine, that delightfully silly operetta spoof by Rick Besoyan, is currently being revived by Musicals Tonight! at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:07PMMonday, February 24, 2014
London Wall offers present-day American theatergoers a glimpse of office sexual politics that is twice-removed from our own culture and time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, January 31, 2014
It's not always easy to be funny and sexy on stage (or off) at the same time, but Rachel York managed that feat very well as Norma "Paris Makes Me Horny" Cassidy in Victor/Victoria…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
This year's "Gypsy of the Year" competition at the Minskoff Theatre began with a tribute to the star of the original production of Gypsy, the great Ethel Merman, channeled by the w…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:49PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Like most other songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman are less well known by their own names than by the titles of the songs for which they have so beautifully written the lyrics: "The …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:18AMMonday, December 2, 2013
The second annual NYC edition of Sparkle!, a charity benefit Christmas concert put together and hosted by Scott Nevins, was held last night (Sunday, December 1) at XL nightclub, spreading ho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:55AMMonday, November 18, 2013
...The Preacher and the Shrink is at once unnecessary and despicable...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
When last (and first) I interviewed Jeremy Jordan in September 2011, he was rehearsing for the leading role of Jack Kelly in the world premiere production of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playho…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:40PMSunday, October 27, 2013
On Sunday evening, October 27, Encompass New Opera Theatre honored the great lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, etc., etc.) with a gala event featuring so…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:20PMMonday, October 21, 2013
Having heard that the Soho Rep production of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette has a running time of 90 minutes, I certainly didn’t expect I was in for a detailed, probing examination of on…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, October 13, 2013
... the audience was also treated to dollops of other forms of dance, from classical to tap to hip-hop. All of that fabulous stuff led up to the Big Moment of the Evening, when superstar An…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMMonday, September 23, 2013
George Kelly’s plays were tremendously popular and highly regarded by critics in his day....
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:48AMMonday, September 16, 2013
A real-life married couple since 1999, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon have worked together several times before on stage -- sometimes playing spouses, sometimes not. Now, they're taking on two o…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:05AMSaturday, July 6, 2013
What's the most politically significant date in American theater history? You'll often get one of two answers (or both) to that question: May 10, 1849, the night of the so-called Astor Place…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:35AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
Millies, Tevyes, Adelaides, and Jean Valjeans from around the country did their stuff onstage at the Minskoff Theater on Monday evening, June 1 as the 62 young men and women nominated for th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AMSaturday, June 22, 2013
Back in the day, the title role in the wildly popular Jerry Herman musical Hello, Dolly! was played on Broadway and elsewhere by almost every major female stage (and/or screen) star of a cer…
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