Sunday, March 26, 2023
If I ever had to write a musical, I would start by etching out the play and characters underneath it. Great music will captivate an audience, but a complex man will change them. The protagon…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:45PMThursday, March 23, 2023
Ugly is not a life sentence. Nearly every inch of the human body can be tweaked, sucked and tightened, and there’s nothing quite like a makeover scene to remind us of this. Whether it’s …
SOURCE: Broadway News at 11:10PMSunday, March 19, 2023
New York City streets dance with Bob Fosse’s influence. The American artist materialized as one of the great, idiosyncratic talents of the mid-20th century with a genre of choreography tha…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:02PMThursday, March 16, 2023
On January 6, 2021, Kevin Seefried traveled 100 miles to join thousands who stormed the U.S. Capitol, and the image of him armed with a Confederate flag became synonymous with insurrection. …
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:50PMThursday, February 9, 2023
Take a picture, it’ll last longer. This phrase transcended from sarcastic adage to artistic mission in the hands of American photographer Larry Sultan. In 1992, Sultan published “Picture…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:20PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Jean-Michel Basquiat catapulted to fame during the 1980s with his carnal, colorful paintings. Since then, contradiction has been his most loyal fan. He’s been labeled genius and absurd. He…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:07PMThursday, December 8, 2022
In a recent “Vanity Fair” profile, six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald named her current role of Suzanne Alexander in Broadway’s “Ohio State Murders” as the hardest to date. …
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:32PMMonday, December 5, 2022
My dearest Black sisters, brothers and ”those that don’t give a damn,” I regret to inform you that we have lost our right to complain. “Brother ‘Righttocomplain,’” that is. He …
SOURCE: Broadway News at 12:28AMSunday, December 4, 2022
By now, fans of Neil Diamond know that the man is from New York. He references the city in a string of time-held hits like “New York Boy,” “Brooklyn Roads” and “I Am…I Said.” I…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:31PMSunday, November 27, 2022
The musical style K-pop is enjoying incomparable success on the global stage, but “KPOP” on Broadway is just getting started. The original musical from creator Jason Kim and the troupe W…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 06:00PMMonday, November 21, 2022
English scribe Charles Dickens wrote more than 40 characters for his famed novella “A Christmas Carol.” In the latest theatrical adaptation playing Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre, Amer…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:30PMThursday, November 17, 2022
Allow Juliet to reintroduce herself. Or rather, let Anne Hathaway do it for her. No, not the Oscar-winning actress known for “The Devil Wears Prada.” The Anne Hathaway I’m referring to…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMSunday, November 13, 2022
A wise man once said, “Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.” The identity of this savant has been debated, but the quote is most often attributed to the legenda…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:59PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Kimberly may be a teenager with an incredibly rare genetic disorder, but it’s everyone in her midst that has an affliction. Her pregnant mother is hypochondrial. Her father teeters between…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 01:09PMThursday, November 3, 2022
Musical genres do not have perfect opposites, but if heavy syncopation and electric guitar are foundational to rock, the breezy melodies and steel pan of soca music — what populates my pla…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMThursday, October 27, 2022
One-person shows actually have two jobs. The first is to tell a captivating story. The second is to make a case for why only one person is needed to tell that story. In “Walking with Ghost…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 04:51PMThursday, October 20, 2022
“Topdog/Underdog” tells on itself before the curtain rises in the first scene. House lights fade to the song “Grinding All My Life” by Nipsey Hussle. In 2019, Hussle — a Crenshaw-b…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:59PMThursday, October 13, 2022
August Wilson is one in a sacred selection of American playwrights who is recognized as a canon all their own. His plays — a series of 10 titled “The Pittsburgh Cycle” — chronicle Bl…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:12PMSunday, October 9, 2022
For over 73 years, “Death of a Salesman” has gotten away with its foreboding title. Ironically, no play in the theater canon better asserts its characters’ aliveness. Sure, Willy Loman…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:59PMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Men are shouting. Representatives from the same state are divided. Everyone is named John. It must be a Congressional debate. The Tony-winning “1776” first premiered on Broadway nearly 2…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 05:23PMMonday, October 3, 2022
Somewhere in Bayonne, New Jersey, a middle-aged truck driver pines to care for his estranged wife, a woman he’s loved “the fuck outta” for “two decades and a year almost.” A car ac…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMWednesday, August 17, 2022
The Broadway Applause Series salutes Funny Girl!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:07AMFriday, July 22, 2022
The Broadway Applause Series Salutes The Lion King.
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:54PMThursday, July 21, 2022
High school love is often blind. My affair with Khaled Hosseini’s novel “The Kite Runner” was no exception. Equally harrowing and hopeful, the book was easy to cherish as a child. But …
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMSunday, July 10, 2022
Like most folks who lay claim to being a former theater kid, a solid portion of my childhood was spent watching a grainy PBS taping of “Into the Woods” on Youtube. There is at least a de…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 08:30PMWednesday, June 1, 2022
The Broadway Applause Series Salutes Tina.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:18PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
There are an infinite number of ways a comedy can get its audience to laugh. Selina Fillinger’s Broadway-debut play, “POTUS,” successfully tries its hand at most. Raunchy language? Wel…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 07:39PMMonday, April 25, 2022
Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that change is the only constant of life. In “The Skin of Our Teeth,” Thornton Wilder argues that tragedy is another. His sweeping comedy, now resurrect…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 10:00PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
It starts with a step. Stomp. Clap. A crescendo of joyous movement and affirmations (“ayeee, yessss, you better”) erupts on stage and is immediately echoed by members of the audience, mo…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:00PMMonday, April 11, 2022
The titular character of “The Little Prince” travels between planets. The theatrical adaptation of the acclaimed novella is traveling between nations — France, Australia, the United Ar…
SOURCE: Broadway News at 09:02PM 
