Sunday, June 19, 2016
By Steve Schonberg, editor-in-chief (@CntrOnTheAisle) Out now, actress and singer Alexa Green (best known as Glinda in the L.A. and San Francisco productions of Wicked) has released “So Go…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:05AMFriday, June 17, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) / Video credit: Claude Apollon “I have five daughters,” Tevye says. “Five!” With Bartlett Sher’s fantastic revival of Fiddler on the Roof curre…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:33AMThursday, June 16, 2016
By Anne Carr Jessica Lang does the hard work for us. That much is apparent from the latest program at The Joyce Theater, which was a carefully selected sampling of her work – balletic,…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:21AMWednesday, June 15, 2016
On Monday, June 20 at 7pm, Grammy nominee (West Side Story), Broadway (Fiddler on the Roof, Master Class) and West End (Carousel, Kiss Me Kate) star Alexandra Silber will celebrate the relea…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:50AMTuesday, June 14, 2016
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) Change and gender equality are in the air—both at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater and in the American political arena. Women are having a moment, and…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:29AMMonday, June 13, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) Tonight glam rocker, HBO GIRLS guest star, and “My Little Pony” enthusiast, Lena Hall returns to the Café Carlyle with “Oh! You Pretty…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:07PMThursday, June 9, 2016
By Erik Jonathan Shuler (@ErikJShuler) The recent Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s She Loves Me, currently playing at Studio 54, has set a new ben…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:42AMWednesday, June 8, 2016
From the heights of music stardom to being brought down by personal demons and tragedy, singer Mindy McCready’s life was something out of a country song. Now, actress Jennifer Blake (…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:53PMMonday, June 6, 2016
Last night, the 61st Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced at New York’s Town Hall, resulting in a star-studded line-up of winners from the best of Broadway and NYC’s theater scene at …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 02:14PMSunday, June 5, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) Just six months in, Broadway star and singer-songwriter Matt Doyle (The Book of Mormon, War Horse) has already achieved a banner year, with a major mil…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:49AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Fathom Events, BY Experience, and National Theatre Live are presenting a special encore screening of the uproarious play, One Man, Two Guvnors on Tuesday, June 21. For a list of participati…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:18AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) On June 16 and 17, singer, songwriter and composer, Rufus Wainwright will head back to Carnegie Hall to revive his wildly acclaimed tribute to Judy Garla…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 04:00AMThursday, May 26, 2016
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) / Photo credit: Walter McBride In the 1960s a cigarette manufacturer tried to woo women customers with the somewhat condescending slogan: “You’ve come…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:17PMSunday, May 22, 2016
Biopix is a series by CenterOnTheAisle.com (#COTA), offering an inside look at the life of celebrities — curated by celebrities — through their own photos. By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTh…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:38AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Photo credit: Jerritt Clark Last night, a line-up of Broadway and TV stars came out to help Center On The Aisle (#COTA) celebrate Tony winner, Laura Benanti, at Feinstein’s/54 Below. P…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:42PMMonday, May 16, 2016
By Adam Cohen How lucky we are to have Encores! at New York City Center, with its mission that celebrates America’s greatest art form and helps keep it vibrant for today’s audiences. The…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:45AMSunday, May 15, 2016
On Thursday, the New Dramatists honored six-time Tony award winner, Audra McDonald with the 2016 Distinguished Achievement Award at its 67th Annual Spring luncheon. Held at the Marriott Mar…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 06:41PMSaturday, May 14, 2016
The 61st annual Drama Desk Awards will be held on June 5 at Town Hall, hosted by Michael Urie. The nominees were announced recently, and this week, Drama Desk members and the media had a cha…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 10:28AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
By Steve Schonberg, editor-in-chief (@CntrOnTheAisle) “The blues ain’t nothin’ but a black crepe veil, ready to wear,” Duke Ellington wrote back in 1942. But rocker, Storm Large says…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:16AMMonday, May 9, 2016
By Steve Schonberg, editor-in-chief (@CntrOnTheAisle) I created Center On The Aisle (#COTA) in 2014 with the simple mission of helping connect theater fans with stars and shows they’ll lov…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:40AMSunday, May 8, 2016
By Mary E. Allen It’s a hit of the season, and those who wildly appreciate this 90-minute one-acter about dementia want to make sure you don’t somehow miss seeing a Frank Langel…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:48AMBy Erik Jonathan Shuler (@ErikJShuler) Both a Broadway and television star, with an impressive resume of voice-over and recording work, Megan Hilty is in no short supply of vehicles and venu…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:09AMFriday, May 6, 2016
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) It was a starry, starry night at Carnegie Hall on Monday as the New York Pops celebrated its 33rd birthday gala with “Do You Hear the People Sing,” …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:16AMMonday, May 2, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) Is Miss Saigon a criticism of the refugee crisis today, as much as it is about a love story decades ago during the Vietnam War? Does Les Misérables ha…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:07AMThursday, April 28, 2016
By Erik Jonathan Shuler (@ErikJShuler) Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s latest musical creation, Bright Star, which opened on Broadway in late March, presents a sweeping tale that str…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 10:52PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
By Doug Strassler “You got to know how to lose to know how to win,” is a refrain that should be familiar to the hapless Sister Mary Downey, the nun among those trying to survive numerous…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:28AMMonday, April 25, 2016
By Erik Jonathan Shuler (@ErikJShuler), with #COTA’s editor-in-chief, Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) Paul Gordon and John Caird’s musical, Daddy Long Legs kicked its spider-…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:30AMBy Anne Lauren Carr One thing is very clear – Wendy Osserman is feeling the merciless tick of the clock. Her company, The Wendy Osserman Dance Company, celebrated its 40th Anniversary …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:28AMSunday, April 24, 2016
By Adam Cohen So, it’s the mid-1980s and you’re in the balcony of the Shubert Theatre taking in A Chorus Line with your mother, after waiting on the TKTS line in Duffy Square, wonder…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 06:16AMThursday, April 21, 2016
By Steve Schonberg, Editor-in-Chief (@CntrOnTheAisle) Now, through just May 1, Tony nominee Montego Glover (Memphis, It Shoulda Been You, Les Miserables) is winding down her run in The Roya…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:37AMSunday, April 17, 2016
By Rob Jones Highway 57, callin’ me home, no matter how far I may roam. In my youth, I did Pump Boys and Dinettes a number of times. Audiences never really knew what it was about until…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:27AM 
