Wednesday, November 16, 2022
Why she felt the need to defend the new Off-Broadway production against its critics, especially The New York Times.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:54AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
The playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, the composer Jeanine Tesori and the director Jessica Stone discuss their quirky Broadway musical, which was first a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMSunday, October 2, 2022
At a certain point in “Leopoldstadt,” I stopped trying to figure out who everyone was. Tom Stoppard’s newest play begins in 1899 Vienna, during a Jewish family’s holiday celebration.…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMThursday, September 29, 2022
Off-Off Broadway stalwart Ping Chong reflects on 50 years of creation and change
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In 1972, when Ping Chong was 26, he made his first independent theatre piece: Lazarus. Performed in a Tr…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:00AMTuesday, April 26, 2022
What can I say about “A Strange Loop” that hasn’t already been said? When I got the assignment to review Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer-winning musical, I even asked my editor, “Am …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMThursday, April 21, 2022
“Hangmen” starts with a bang, or should I say, a snap of a neck. The play begins on the morning of an execution, with the condemned man proclaiming his innocence. “I’m getting hung b…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:30PMSunday, April 17, 2022
When you walk into Studio 54 for “The Minutes,” you see a cavernous room on stage, featuring a white rotunda ceiling, a line of plush chairs and conference tables with microphones attach…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMSunday, April 3, 2022
About three quarters through the new Broadway musical “Paradise Square,” my lingering doubts about the show vanished. This clarifying moment happened during the show’s 11 o’clock num…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:01PMMonday, November 1, 2021
Sher changed the ending of the musical to honor the intent of the "Pygmalion" source material, George Bernard Shaw’s critique of class distinctions and society's limitations on women.
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle at 07:00AMSaturday, April 24, 2021
The march attendees were protesting their union, who they saw as ineffective in protecting its membership from racism, sexism, and unsafe work environments.
SOURCE: Backstage at 03:55PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Dramatic creation while social distancing
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SOURCE: Dramatics Magazine at 04:48PMSaturday, April 4, 2020
Austin Winsberg may currently be working in television, but he will have you know that he is a big theater nerd. Winsberg, the showrunner for NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, also w…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:24PMFriday, April 3, 2020
Tituss Burgess did not plan to be a reality show host. “I don’t know the first thing about hosting!” the actor, whose Broadway credits include The Little Mermaid and Guys and Dolls, …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:32PMThursday, April 2, 2020
Move over Tiger King, our next television obsession is here. Netflix just released a first look at its new limited series, Hollywood, from producers Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. The show …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:54PMDiana, the new musical about the life of the People’s Princess, was supposed to have its opening night on March 31, but it did not because of the Broadway shutdown. Nevertheless, the co…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:48PMWednesday, April 1, 2020
Six was supposed to have its Broadway opening night on March 12, but that day it was announced Broadway was shutting down all shows because of COVID-19. Abby Mueller, who has the role of J…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:42PMTuesday, March 31, 2020
Broadway has no problem making musicals out of shady characters. Women who murder their husbands? Give them jazz hands in Chicago! Londoners who murder people and bake them into pies? Sween…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMMonday, March 30, 2020
Transport yourself somewhere with these newimages from the upcoming West Side Story film. Directed by Steven Spielberg, West Side Story is based on the musical of the same name (which was r…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMFriday, March 27, 2020
Broadway.com illustrator Tug Rice has been thinking up what our favorite Broadway characters are doing while theaters are closed and they're at home social distancing. In this installment…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:03PMJust because Michael James Scott is stuck inside does not mean he doesn’t dress up for virtual company. For his #LiveAtFive: Home Edition interview, the actor and former Broadway.com vlogg…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMThursday, March 26, 2020
Are you at home and missing Broadway? Are you feeling worried about the future? Now is the perfect time to watch SpongeBob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical, which is currently available …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 09:06PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Broadway’s biggest stars invited viewers into their homes during the one-night-only Broadway.com broadcast of The Rosie O’Donnell Show to benefit The Actors Fund. During the show, perfo…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:03PMMonday, March 23, 2020
What has Kristin Chenoweth been doing since she’s been social distancing? “I'm watching myself on Hallmark right now, critiquing my own acting,” she said on #LiveAtFive: Home Edition,…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMThe coronavirus crisis has affected many films in production, including In the Heights, which is based on Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes' Tony-winning musical. “We were l…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:36PMShe's back! On March 22, Rosie O'Donnell hosted a one-night-only return performance of The Rosie O'Donnell Show from her garage. The three-and-a-half hour show, which rivaled the Oscars in…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:18PMSunday, March 22, 2020
March 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater (though his nine Tony Awar…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:12PMFriday, March 20, 2020
March 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater, but we're taking a stab a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMThursday, March 19, 2020
March 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater, but we're taking a stab a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:32PMMarch 22 marks Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It's impossible to state the great contribution and influences this titan of the stage has made to musical theater, but we're taking a stab a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PMIt takes a lot of people to make a Broadway show, no matter how many are in the spotlight: stage hands, technicians, wardrobe supervisors, ushers, marketers, choreographers, company managers…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:18PM 
