Sunday, April 27, 2025
Grief certainly makes for good drama: Unpredictable, unreliable and messy, it can be a great basis for an emotionally intense play. Unfortunately, in Grief Camp, the new play written by Eliy…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:29PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
The cavernous Vivian Beaumont theater at Lincoln Center is a surprisingly brilliant choice for staging the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins, Tina Landau and Adam Guettel’s 1994 musical a…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:04AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
Caryl Churchill is famous—or perhaps infamous—for taking bold leaps in her plays and circumventing both theatrical conventions and audience expectations, leveraging both fantasy and surr…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:36AMSunday, April 20, 2025
After a season of “reimaginings” of classic works that completely overhaul original concepts, it is somewhat refreshing to have a more traditional revival of Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen’s cla…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:25PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
One of Stephen Sondheim’s most famous maxims was that a musical’s content should dictate each song’s form—in other words, the framework of the musical itself will determine what the …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 06:07PMThursday, April 3, 2025
While any number of musicals are based on popular movies, precious few are based on documentaries. Fortunately, Saheem Ali had the wonderful idea to bring Wim Wender’s 1999 documentary Bue…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:35PMSunday, September 8, 2024
The latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, which closed this weekend at the Perelman Performing Arts Center in New York City’s financial district after multiple extensions, may we…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:46PMMonday, April 29, 2024
If Lincoln Center’s revival of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya feels both timely and timeless, we can thank playwright and actress Heidi Schreck for her smart adaptation of the 1898 classic.…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:21PMSunday, April 28, 2024
Peter Morgan has written any number of excellent plays, movies and TV series about world leaders, from Richard Nixon to Idi Amin to Queen Elizabeth II. But Patriots, his latest piece directe…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:36PMFriday, April 26, 2024
We all knew the musical adaptations of The Great Gatsby would be coming as soon as F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 book entered the public domain, and the first of what will inevitably be many …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:17PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Sally Hemings is one of the great known-unknowns of American history. We know she existed. We know she bore children to Thomas Jefferson, the man who enslaved her. We know she was likely the…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:56PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
The timing feels very right for a revival of John Kander, Fred Ebb and Joe Masteroff’s seminal musical Cabaret. It’s only been 10 years since the last Broadway revival of the show but se…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:41PMSunday, March 31, 2024
When John Patrick Shanley wrote Doubt in 2004, it was (allegedly) meant to be a parable, connecting the bombshell 2002 Boston Globe expose of sexual abuse by Catholic priests with the U.S.�…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:32PMSaturday, March 30, 2024
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: Jessica Molaskey On this episode, Jena talks with Jessica Molaskey about The Connector, her previous shows with Daisy Prince and Jas…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:01AMSunday, April 30, 2023
If you had told me a few months ago that I would spend two hours and change laughing hysterically at a cheesy, corny new musical reportedly inspired by the classic TV show Hee-Haw, I would h…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:51PMSaturday, April 29, 2023
Sometimes, all the elements for an excellent musical come together and the sparks simply don’t fly. Such is the case with New York, New York, a new musical based on a 1977 romantic movie. …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:45PMMadeleine Albright once said that there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women. That quote could be at the heart of Prima Facie, a new one-woman play by Suzie Mill…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:41PMFriday, April 28, 2023
Bob Fosse developed the musical Dancin’ as both a tribute to and a departure from his signature choreographic style. The show, which premiered on Broadway in 1978, was conceived as a celeb…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:01PMSunday, April 23, 2023
There is something powerfully cathartic about art created out of trauma, especially when that art reminds us that we aren’t alone in our pain. In Plays for the Plague Year, which opened la…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:04PMSunday, April 16, 2023
Yet again, Andrew Lloyd Webber has created a musical with a titular protagonist rejected by mainstream society for not meeting popular beauty standards—but unlike The Phantom of the Opera,…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:14PMSaturday, December 31, 2022
Performer Ali Ewoldt has spent the past month as one of the featured performers at Irish Repertory Theatre’s production of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Charlotte Moore’s musical adapt…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:02PMSaturday, October 30, 2021
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: David Staller, Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group On this episode, Jena talks with David Staller, artistic director of Gi…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:00PMSunday, September 12, 2021
When the theaters shut down and performers could not perform in public anymore, actor and singer Todd Buonopane took to his bathtub and turned his shower curtain into a theater curtain, perf…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:45PMSaturday, May 22, 2021
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: Andrew Benvenuti, the director of Lilies at the Theater CenterThe Drama Company WebsiteAndrew Benvenuti: Instagram | Twitter The Dra…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 08:00AMSaturday, December 12, 2020
One-man performances of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol go back to the Victorian era, when Dickens himself gave readings of his instant hit. A new recorded production, starring Jefferso…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:04PMWednesday, April 22, 2020
The constrictions the theater community has faced in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic are unlike anything we have had to face in our lifetime. And while there is no way of knowi…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:41PMSaturday, November 11, 2017
The Spotlight podcast is hosted by Jena Tesse Fox. Guest: Michael John LaChiusa Michael John LaChiusa is a five–time Tony Award-nominated composer, lyricist and librettist for the Broadway…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 12:00PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Andrew Rannells originated the demanding lead role in one of the biggest box-office smashes in Broadway history when he played Elder Price in The Book of Mormon. So why now is he taking …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTuesday, October 13, 2015
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening marked the Broadway debuts of two acclaimed actors who have — by their presence in film, TV and live theatre — increased the …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMMonday, September 28, 2015
This fall marks a homecoming of sorts for Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Michael John LaChiusa. More than 20 years after one of his first musicals, First Lady Suite, began at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:44AMThis fall marks a homecoming of sorts for Tony-nominated composer and lyricist Michael John LaChiusa. More than 20 years after one of his first musicals, First Lady Suite, began at the P…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM 
