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Friday, December 30, 2022

Death Of A Salesman ***** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward December 30, 2022: In its last Broadway incarnation in 2012, Death of a Salesman was so close to the 1949 original that director Mike Nichols employed the same skeletal …

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Saturday, December 24, 2022

Park West Galleries by Barry Gordin

Park West Galleries opens in Soho with a 4,000 square foot space at 411 West Broadway. December 22, 2022: Park West Galleries, one of the world's largest art dealer, celebrated the opening …

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Friday, December 23, 2022

Vanessa Williams @ 54 Below by Barry Gordin

“54 Below “Diamond Series” featured Vanessa Williams in December. December 16, 2022: The one and only Vanessa William, a recording artist with numerous hit songs and albums, was a lum…

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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Showstopper Divas Benefits Urban Stages by Barry Gordin

Broadway Babe, Randie Levine Miller, hosted Showstopper Divas, an Urban Stages Benefit, featuring “Tomatoes Got Talent” winners. December 24, 2022:  On Saturday, December 17 Urban Stag…

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The Far Country **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 21, 2022: California’s mid-19th-century gold rush sucked thousands of needy but adventurous foreign fortune seekers—Mexicans and Chileans, Australians, F…

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Joel Grey, Alec Baldwin and more celebrating John Kander & Fred Ebb at the 1998 Kennedy Center Honors are some of the entertaining Holiday treats from Broadw…

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Monday, December 19, 2022

Ohio State Murders **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons December 19, 2022: Ohio State Murders was first performed in 1991 at the Yale Repertory Theater. Sixteen years later, the play premiered at Cleveland’s Great Lakes…

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Becky Nurse of Salem *** by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward December 19, 2022: Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America…

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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof by Barry Gordin

Maverick theatre group, Ruth Stage, announced the return engagement of their hit Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with TV star Courtney Henggler making her NYC stage debut as “Maggie the Cat” in th…

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The Al Hirschfeld Foundation – It Exists! by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen December 17, 2022: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) spent seven decades as figurehead at the prow of the New York Times Arts and Leisure section. Drawings were delivered wrapped…

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Friday, December 16, 2022

Michael Urie – Jane Anger by Barry Gordin

Michael Urie Co-stars in Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Revival of Talene Monohon’s Jane Anger … By: Ellis Nassour December 16, 2022: Are you ready for a bloody good …

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Becky Nurse of Salem **1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying…

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Some Like It Hot ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 14, 2022: Regardless of what Rodgers and Hammerstein may have said, there has always been something like a dame, namely, men who dress as dames. And from The…

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Tovah Feldshuh – Author by Barry Gordin

Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage and a Heartfelt Tell-All Memoir - Part Two By: Ellis Nassour           December 14, 2022 –  Tovah Feldshuh, the four-time Tony …

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Tony Awards 2023 by Barry Gordin

CBS will present “THE 76th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS®” airing Sunday, June 11, 2023, from a New Location, the United Palace in New York City. The TONYS will celebrate 76 years of the best of…

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Monday, December 12, 2022

A Child’s Christmas In Wales *** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 12, 2022: As it has on five earlier occasions since 2002, the Irish Repertory Theatre has retained its venerable name despite leaping over the Irish Sea to W…

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Friday, December 9, 2022

Josephine Beavers @ 54 Below by Barry Gordin

Josephine Beavers brings her cool jazz to 54 Below. By: Patrick Christiano December 7, 2022: Josephine Beavers wowed the audience on Tuesday, the opening night of a two-night engagement a…

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Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Broadway Babe: West Side Story, Toast of the Town, Johnny Mathis and more. December 9, 2022:  Randie Levine-Miller has unearthed some wonderful nostalgic finds including film clips from th…

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Tovah Feldshuh by Barry Gordin

Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage By: Ellis Nassour December 8, 20222: The four-time Tony and two-time Emmy nominee Tovah Feldshuh has done just about all there’s to do …

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Ain’t No Mo’ ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter December 5, 2022". As Kermit the Frog often reminded us, it’s not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some Black American playwrights, es…

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Stardust Road ***** by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons December 1, 2022: Hoagland Howard Carmichael, more famously known as Hoagy, was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s. Today he is remembe…

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Hirschfeld Book by Barry Gordin

Edited by David Leopold with almost 300 Hirschfeld drawings the new book covers nearly 50 years of the American Theater in one volume. The American Theatre As Seen By Al Hirschfeld By: Pau…

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The American Theater 1962-2022 as seen by Al Hirschfeld by Barry Gordin

“Al had one of the only unique styles in the history of art.” Caricaturist David Levine By: Alix Cohen December 1, 2022: For a lover of the stage, paging through a book of Al Hirsch…

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

A Christmas Carol ***** by Barry Gordin

CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL By: Samuel L. Leiter November 30, 2022: If you go to Show-Score.com, an online site for theatre reviews, you’ll find that, within the past few year…

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Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo by Barry Gordin

By: Alix Cohen Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Make Merry for the Holidaze. November 30, 2022: The world’s foremost, all-male comic ballet company delighting the savvy and novi…

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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

& Juliet *** by Barry Gordin

By: Samuel L. Leiter November 23, 2022: & Juliet, a raucous jukebox musical that even has a jukebox as a prominent stage property, belongs as well to a genre with a much longer tradit…

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Broadway Babe by Barry Gordin

Unique finds from Broadway Babe this week include Tony winner, Glynis Johns, from 1973, Shirley Jones, Marlo & Phil, and a tribute to Kander & Ebb. November 26, 2022:  Broadway Bab…

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

& Juliet ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons November 23, 2022: On the heels of the international success of Six, comes another woke Elizabethan musical from the West End, & Juliet, directed by Luke Sheppa…

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BroadwayHD by Barry Gordin

Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night: A New Musical Comedy premiers on BroadwayHD December 1, just in time for the Holidays. November 22, 2022: Broadway HD, the premiere streaming service fo…

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The Old Man and The Pool ***1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: Paulanne Simmons November 21, 2022: In his newest solo show, The Old Man and The Pool, Mike Birbiglia looks to one of the most unlikely subjects for the source of humor: his own mo…

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic