Thursday, June 19, 2025
"It may be 400 years old, but it lasts! It’s funny stuff," Linn-Baker, who worked with Jesse Berger on the project, told Observer.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:10AMTuesday, May 27, 2025
Both Simard and her co-star in "Death Becomes Her," Megan Hilty, are up for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony this year. "You must throw the ball to your playing partner and let them win s…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:24AMMonday, May 5, 2025
The Tony award winning actress shines in the family drama 'We Had a World,' and has also written and directed a new film, 'The Grotto.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:27PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
The go-to singer for musical theater heroines talks about the Encores! revival of the Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner musical.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:27PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
Behar has written a show of eight monologues crafted from interviews with women about their divorces.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:38AMFriday, February 21, 2025
"There's a very special relationship between a mother and a gay son and an extremely special relationship between a mother and a gay Italian son,” says playwright Matthew Lombardo, who's m…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:01PMTuesday, February 4, 2025
She grew up on TV in 'Little House on the Prairie,' but now she gets a chance to play a real grown-up in this Off Broadway two-hander about a couple who love each other, but not each other's…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:39PMMonday, December 23, 2024
Mare Winningham plays the matriarch of a family gathered around the Christmas tree to air some serious issues. "I thought, ‘Well, it’s called Cult of Love, so there has to be a leader," …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:09PMThursday, December 12, 2024
A private school agonizes over what to do about an outbreak of mumps in playwright Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day,' which he tells Observer started out as "a funny play about serious things.…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:38AMSunday, November 24, 2024
Francis Jue talks with Observer about his role in the Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face.' "David wrote it 20 years ago, but it feels like it’s a play of today. We’re s…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:56AMMonday, November 18, 2024
The star of the new musical on learning to move like a robot and how he first caught the acting bug.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:14PMFriday, October 18, 2024
Sam Mendes calls "The Hills of California," his latest collaboration with playwright Jez Butterworth, "one of the hardest plays that I have ever directed."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:14PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Holland Taylor plays a thinly veiled Nancy Pelosi in 'N/A.' Along with a judge on 'The Practice,' a network exec on 'The Morning Show' and Charlie Sheen's mom on 'Two And A Half Men,' it's t…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:43PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Hours after Kamala Harris emerged as a presidential contender, Shaina Taub realized that her musical 'Suffs' was playing to a new energy. “People are so ready to feel some sense of hope, …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:23PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
New York City Center Encores! has done itself proud on with its revival of the Tony-winning Best Musical of 1997.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:56PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
In addition to playing Old Deuteronomy in a radical reinterpretation of 'Cats' inspired by drag balls, De Shields is being honored by the Moth as Storyteller of the Year.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:49PMFriday, May 31, 2024
After helming last year's Tony winning musical 'Kimberly Akimbo,' Stone brought seven-time Tony nominee 'Water for Elephants' to the Broadway stage.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:06PMMonday, May 13, 2024
Keen says that Russia's invasion of Ukraine turned 'Patriots' — a play about the Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and the rise of Putin — into a show that's in "constant conversation"…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:34PMThursday, April 18, 2024
The 84-year-old actor—currently off-Broadway in 'Tuesdays With Morrie'—looks for shows without a Wednesday matinee so as not interfere with the shooting schedule for 'Blue Bloods,' now i…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:57PMMonday, April 1, 2024
The veteran film and TV actor on his role in 'The Notebook,' his first Broadway show in 46 years.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:37PMMonday, March 25, 2024
Toby Stephens talks about 'Corruption,' the new play about the UK phone hacking scandal. “We’re still living in the aftermath of all the stuff that came out," he says.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:55PMThursday, March 21, 2024
The playwright talks about the revival of his Pulitzer Prize winning 'Doubt' on Broadway and his new show Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:54PMMonday, February 26, 2024
The "And Just Like That..." and "Gilded Age" star talks about playing a performance artist (and seven other roles) in the Off Broadway show "The Seven Year Disappear."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:37PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
In 'Spamalot,' Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer pays homage to—or shamelessly satirizes—pop icons. “They change every night,” she says. “I do a little Celine Dion—although there are some…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:14AMMonday, February 5, 2024
"I learn more about directing while acting and more about acting while directing," says David Cromer, who directed 'Prayer for the French Republic' on Broadway and is currently appearing in …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 05:06PMFriday, January 26, 2024
In 'Maestro,' Michael Urie played choreographer-director Jerome Robbins. He now finds Robbins’ spirit haunting the rehearsal spaces at New York City Center, where he's performing in 'Once …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:19AMMonday, January 8, 2024
After playing the devil himself in 'Hadestown,' Patrick Page keeps it on the dark side with 'All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:44AMTuesday, December 26, 2023
"I’ve got this idea for a musical, and I wondered if you wanted to work on it with me,” Sondheim said to David Ives. Thus began the collaboration that resulted the adaptation of two Luis…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:15AMMonday, December 11, 2023
“My character didn’t exist a year ago," Broadway veteran Chip Zien says of his role as the Rabbi in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's long gestating musical. "It’s a real gift.”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:53AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
'Translations' is the first of three Brian Friel plays that Irish Rep is staging this season. "It has a kind of politics, but it’s so embracing of human life," director Doug Hughes says.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:44AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
"You can’t cheat with Sondheim,” says Gerard Alessandrini of the song spoofs in 'Forbidden Sondheim: Merrily We Stole a Song.' “I try to make the rhymes correct—and still be funny."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46AM 
