Friday, October 12, 2012
After Hugh Jackman creates movie magic as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, he'll perform spectacular illusions as Harry Houdini in a new Broadway musical about the famed magician. Directe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:01PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Katie Holmes has picked up quite the unhealthy habit as she prepares for her Broadway return. The Dead Accounts star is loading up on ice cream and chili dogs, but not to worry...it's al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:31PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Patti Murin’s Broadway ambitions became a reality last year when she made her Main Stem debut as the title star in the musical Lysistrata Jones. The dream was short lived, however, as …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:05PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
It’s been 5 years since Amy Morton first screamed, “I’m running things now!” on Broadway in August: Osage County. Now the Tony nominee is back on the boards and mad as ever in the 50…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 04:18PMSunday, July 22, 2012
“What was the name of that cheese that I like?” It’s the seventh voicemail Candela leaves for her MIA friend Pepa in the song “Model Behavior” in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Br…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 11:08PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
For over 20 years, Blue Man Group has been the only show in New York to require the ‘You may get wet’ disclaimer. Now, theatergoers can go from blue to red as they get sprayed with blood…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:59AMMonday, June 25, 2012
The streets are filled with shady politicians and rebel-rousing anarchists in Derek Ahonen’s new play, The Bad and the Better, which plays at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater through July 21. …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 03:49PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Get transported into a noir-ish New York City in Derek Ahonen’s twisty new crime thriller The Bad and the Better. The Lang Brothers, whose family tree is deeply rooted in the NYPD, bot…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
The streets are filled with shady politicians and rebel-rousing anarchists in Derek Ahonen’s new play, The Bad and the Better, which begins performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on J…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 02:26PMTuesday, June 12, 2012
The streets are filled with shady politicians and rebel-rousing anarchists in Derek Ahonen’s new play, The Bad and the Better, which begins performances at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater on J…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 06:53PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Now that the Broadway season has come to a close, summer is a a time for traveling off the Great White Way and exploring some riskier theater. Stage Rush is giving readers a head start by gi…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 11:59AMMonday, May 7, 2012
In two acts each taking place in different eras, the new play Clybourne Park demonstrates how race issues haven’t changed much in 50 years. Jeremy Shamos plays Karl in Act I during 1959 an…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 01:13AMSaturday, April 28, 2012
On May 1, Elaine Paige, the actress who originated the roles of Eva Peron in Evita and Grizabella in Cats could likely be nominated for her first Tony Award. Despite a lauded stage career th…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 05:23PMThursday, April 19, 2012
Duncan Sheik is still knee-deep in theater projects. The Tony-winning composer is getting ready to mount the first staged production of his new musical The Nightingale this June in San Diego…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:01AMFriday, April 13, 2012
If you give Andrew Keenan-Bolger a bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, he will give you a Crutchie trading card. Disney has given each cast member of its new Broadway musical Newsies, based on the…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:49AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
The energy at Joe’s Pub was infectious on April 9 as the short-lived, but much loved, Lysistrata Jones cast performed their Class Reunion concert. The quirky Douglas Carter Beane musical, …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 08:20AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Evita hasn’t been seen on Broadway in over 30 years, but this Andrew Lloyd Webber classic is making up for it now with a grand-scale revival starring Ricky Martin, Elena Roger, and Michael…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMMonday, April 2, 2012
The only thing better than an improv show is an improv show with Jim Henson puppets, right? That’s why Stuffed and Unstrung exists. Featuring six comedians and over 80 puppets, Stuffed and…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 11:20PMIt is not a happy time for the “Get Happy” singer. In the new play End of the Rainbow, Tracie Bennett plays the unraveling Judy Garland, just six months before her fatal overdose. The fa…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMSunday, April 1, 2012
The year might be 1960, but not much has changed in the arena of dirty politickin’ in this revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Eric McCormack and John Larroquette face off as t…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMSaturday, March 31, 2012
The most raucous version of Sunday mass is back on Broadway with the new revival of Jesus Christ Superstar. Andrew Lloyd webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera has been brought back to the s…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 12:42PMThursday, March 29, 2012
Broadway musicals have been a home for many heroes throughout history and this season is ushering in a whole bunch of them in the tightly-wound package of Newsies. The new Disney musical bas…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Broadway turns it down a notch (or two or three) for the low-key stage musical adaptation of the 2006 indie film hit Once. A pair of fresh faces (Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti) play Guy an…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:55PMThursday, March 15, 2012
Do you remember when your parents told you that life is full of disappointment? Well apparently, that was a lesson never taught in the Loman household. Philip Seymour Hoffman stars as Willy …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:45PMStage Rush’s favorite leading man is returning to Broadway this spring in the new musical Leap of Faith! Yes, the man who showed us that Christmas could be both sexy and depressing at …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:30PMMonday, March 5, 2012
Two of Broadway’s biggest stars headline the new musical comedy Nice Work If You Can Get It, which features the classic songs of George and Ira Gershwin. Matthew Broderick plays a w…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:06PMFriday, February 24, 2012
Joshua Henry opened his solo concert at the Triad Theater on February 20 singing the words “I’m livin’ my life like it’s golden.” The chorus to Jill Scott’s hit certainly describ…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 08:04AMSaturday, February 18, 2012
If there was to be a revival of The Most Happy Fella on Broadway, Robert Creighton should be cast as the lead right now. I actually have no idea what the show is about, but what I do know is…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 05:32PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
A new Finch has flown into into Broadway! Nick Jonas is the new star of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Stage Rush is giving away two pairs of tickets to see the Jonas B…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:59PMIntense struggle is on display in Diane Paulus’ revival (and retooling) of the classic opera Porgy and Bess. Adapted for a more standard evening of Broadway (ahem, running under four hours…
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 09:13PMThursday, January 26, 2012
The medical horror story of dealing with cancer is starkly depicted on stage in the Broadway debut of Wit. Cynthia Nixon stars as Vivian Bearing, a brilliant college professor, specializing …
SOURCE: Stage Rush at 10:00PM 
