Sunday, 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 09:46AMWednesday, November 1, 2023
As he prepares for a two-night concert of the Sondheim musical 'The Frogs,' Nathan Lane explains how what started with a chance bookstore encounter grew to a collaboration that involved seve…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:17PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
“The idea of collaborating with your late father demands a deep breath,” John Weidman says of revisiting his dad's show 'I Can Get It For You Wholesale.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:34PMThursday, October 12, 2023
"It’s a masterpiece," the director says of 'Merrily, We Roll Along.' "It’s one of the great, great pieces of musical theater. It belongs on a Broadway stage."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:31AMMonday, October 9, 2023
He made his Broadway debut 41 years ago playing the title role in 'Pippin' and has appeared on TV in everything from 'Matlock' to 'The Wizards of Waverley Place.' But this is John Rubinste…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:11PMMonday, September 25, 2023
Since 'Hamilton,' he's been Oscar nominated, won a Golden Globe, written his autobiography, and recorded an album. Now he's back on Broadway in 'Purlie Victorious,' a show he first saw as a …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:05PMFriday, September 22, 2023
Playwright Theresa Rebeck has two shows this season—'Dig' Off Broadway and 'I Need That' on Broadway—and she's already at work on her next play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:15PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Arnie Burton made his mark on Broadway with the Hitchcock parody 'The 39 Steps,' in which four actors play over 100 roles. The raucous 'Dracula, A Comedy Of Terrors' allots him a mere two ch…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:06PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
In 1974, four-year-old Ian Shaw visited his father Robert on the set of 'Jaws' and was scared by Bruce, the mechanical shark. Forty-nine years later he's playing his father on Broadway in 'T…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:52AMTuesday, August 1, 2023
The Tony winning actress swings between ecstasy and misery in this two-person show.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:01PM 
