Thursday, 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 02:01PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
"The hardest part of putting a comedy together is that you put it together without an audience," Jason Alexander says of his Broadway directing debut, 'The Cottage.' "You just keep your fing…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:27PMMonday, July 17, 2023
“There’s humor in every difficult situation,” Edelman says of 'Just For Us,' which tells the story of this Orthodox Jewish comedian attending a gathering of white supremacists in Queen…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:52PMWednesday, July 5, 2023
For the first time in 20 years Stevenson is back in New York, drawing standing ovations nightly in 'The Doctor.' She talks about updating a play from 1912 for the world today, why she loves …
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:00AMMonday, June 5, 2023
“I call it a fever dream,” the actor says of the cabin-in-the-woods thriller. “There aren’t a lot of plays like this that end up on Broadway."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:55PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
Doug Wright calls Sean Hayes "a national treasure." But at first he had trouble picturing him as the drug-driven, witheringly witty, piano-playing genius Oscar Levant.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:42AMFriday, April 7, 2023
As a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music approaches, the team behind shows like 'Ragtime' and movies like 'Anastasia' talks about their past, present, and future.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:51PMWednesday, March 29, 2023
The playwright explains how the new musical 'Shucked' started as a spoof of 'Hee-Haw' and blossomed into a corn-fed 'Brigadoon.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:20PMThursday, March 16, 2023
Emerging from the pandemic, Christine Pedi discovered her vision had dimmed. But it hasn't stopped her from taking the stage Off Broadway in 'The Rewards of Being Frank.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:52PMThursday, March 2, 2023
Director and choreographer Wayne Cilento — who was part of the original company of 'A Chorus Line' — on his life onstage and bringing 'Bob Fosse's Dancin'' back to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:30PMTuesday, February 21, 2023
Director Anne Kauffman says 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window' touches on everything from history, philosophy and politics to interpersonal relationships and identity. "It’s the kitc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:37PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
A single heartbreaking truth in both 'The Whale' and the newly revived 'A Bright New Boise' provided a pivot for the playwright turned screenwriter.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:22PMFriday, February 10, 2023
The Tony-winning director-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. explains how the '80s musical 'Baby' was reborn for a new era.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:54AMTuesday, January 31, 2023
The author of such landmarks as "Six Degrees of Separation" and "The House of Blue Leaves" recalls his long career, which started with two plays written at age 11.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:43PMWhite created 'Pictures from Home' from photographer Larry Sultan's 1992 memoir of the same name. "It’s heartbreaking and also very funny."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:03PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
The death of a close colleague from COVID-19 helped inspire Eduardo Machado's new play at the Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:07PMFriday, December 30, 2022
This revival — with most of the original cast — brings the show new urgency, and one new actor: Common, making his Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:54PMThursday, December 29, 2022
Paul Bettany dons a white wig to make his Broadway debut in this play about Andy Warhol's partnership with Jean-Michel Basquiat.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:53PMMonday, December 5, 2022
The six-time Tony winner spent Saturday onstage at Carnegie Hall and opens in 'Ohio State Murders' on Broadway on Thursday, in what she calls "the most difficult role I’ve ever played."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:32PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Having spent 54 of his 83 years directing stunning theater, Jack O’Brien talks about working with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tom Stoppard and Neil Simon, as well as his next Broadway show, 'Shuc…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:19PMTuesday, November 22, 2022
The playwright’s latest examines society’s need to identify collective villains that can be perpetually punished.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:48AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
"Every single person on that stage is someone who would not have been allowed to be inside Independence Hall in 1776."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 12:56PMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Family ties provide added resonance to this two-character play about a welder who suffers a devastating injury, for both the audience and the actors. "But we’re still really goofy with eac…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Stoppard's new show traces a Jewish family in Vienna as darkness overtakes them. Betsy Aidem and director Patrick Marber talk about the Broadway production.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:49PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
The actor — known for his role on 'Nurse Jackie' — talks about the challenges of playing a father with an ill son — and a fantasy life — in 'Jasper.'
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:25PM 
