Thursday, April 2, 2015
No one puts on a show like The New York Pops; as the largest independent pops orchestra in America, they bring the best of film, theatre and television music to Carnegie Hall, which serves a…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:30AMWith the voice of an angel and the acting chops to match, Ryan Silverman is poised to have quite the bright future on the Great White Way. In just a few years he’s gone from playing suppor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00AMThe statuesque Luba Mason commands any room she’s in, just recently at Broadway by the Year where she performed “Come Rain or Come Shine”, she made the Town Hall feel as intimate as a …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:03AMTuesday, March 24, 2015
The notes of George Gershwin’s “Summertime” filled Birdland Jazz on March 23, as Anika Larsen took the stage to celebrate the release of her first album, Sing You to Sleep, a collectio…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:04PMThursday, March 12, 2015
The Memory Show tells a simple story: a daughter (Leslie Kritzer) moves back home to take care of her mother (Catherine Cox) who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The two women have cla…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:43PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster will be headlining her first solo show at Carnegie Hall on March 13. The show, titled One Night Only: Sutton Foster, will feature the New York Pops u…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:33PMWednesday, March 4, 2015
From Glee to Godspell, and Pacific Overtures, Telly Leung has become one of the most beloved musical theatre actors of his generation, having lent his pristine voice to a varied array of cha…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Shortly before 9/11, playwright Brian Sloan placed an ad looking for a roommate. Little did he imagine how much his neighborhood would change in just an instant. Inspired by the responses he…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:59PMA few years before he became famous for his comedic turns in Ugly Betty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and the delightful Buyer & Cellar, a fresh-out-of-college Michae…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:31PMMonday, February 23, 2015
The Last Five Years first made its Off-Broadway debut in 2002 – it ran at the Minetta Lane Theatre for two months – and while critics adored it, perhaps not many expected it to b…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:17PMFriday, February 20, 2015
Tony-winner Lillias White has the kind of voice that’s both majestic and soothing, qualities that perfectly fit the real-life character she’s currently playing onstage, in Alan Govenar�…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:53PMIn Rasheeda Speaking, Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins plays Jaclyn, an office worker pitted against her co-worker Ileen (played by Oscar winner Dianne Wiest) when claims of arrogance and incompete…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:48PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
Another year means another season of the acclaimed series Broadway by the Year, which is now celebrating its fifteenth year. Organized, produced and hosted by the remarkable pop culture crit…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:19PMThursday, February 12, 2015
In Sheila Callaghan’s Everything You Touch, Christian Coulson plays Victor, a seemingly sadistic fashion designer living in 1970s New York, whose transgressive creative outbursts are only …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:37PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Pulitzer Prize finalist, Adam Rapp is one of the most prolific artists in America; in 2015 alone he has a new novel coming out, called Know Your Beholder, he’s planning on bringing two sho…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:41PMMonday, January 5, 2015
I tell Mary Testa that the very first time I saw her was when she did a cameo in Sex and the City, playing a cabaret singer who performs “All That Jazz” as Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:00PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Going to see The Nutcracker during the holidays is a tradition as old as eggnog and fruit cake, but most productions of the ballet have been clearly, and snobbishly, aimed for adults, or at …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:05PMEditor’s Note: As we look back at 2014, we are highlighting some of the best shows, performances, theater-related products and experiences the year gave us; for we will surely be talki…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:00AMFriday, December 19, 2014
There is probably not a single musical theater lover unfamiliar with the 1987 production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The James Lapine-directed show became the ultimate how-to-mak…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00AMThursday, December 18, 2014
Dropping a mere two weeks after the broadcast, Peter Pan LIVE! (Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event) was released on December 16, and surprisingly it’s among the best cast reco…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00AMWest Side Story is such a New York institution that the idea of a West Coast production overshadowing anything heard on Broadway sounds downright sacrilegious, yet that is precisely what the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:00AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Jory (Karen Pittman) has just one scene, yet days, weeks even, after you’ve seen Disgraced, it’s she who haunts you. Not to say that the other characters aren’t interesting, or that th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Tobly McSmith, Co-Writer, Director and Producer of Bayside! The Musical! (And Showgirls! The Musical) took some time out of his busy schedule (decorating the homeless like Christmas trees) t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:51PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Anika Larsen’s first number in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical has her character, composer Cynthia Weil, change the words to “Happy Days Are Here Again” to highlight her brilliant i…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:21PMThursday, November 20, 2014
Described in the words of its own creator Chazz Palminteri, A Bronx Tale is a show you “have to see to believe”. The show tells the story of Calogero Anello, a working class boy who gets…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:09PMMonday, November 10, 2014
John R. Waters has been playing John Lennon for more than two decades. In Lennon: Through a Glass Onion he becomes a version of the late singer without relying on makeup or costumes to help …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:39PMThursday, October 30, 2014
At the beginning of his show Bad With Money, Ben Rimalower sings a bit from Judy Garland’s “I’d Like to Hate Myself in the Morning”, in which the legendary performer declared she wou…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:04PMTamar of the River is a unique musical theater piece which combines different music genres, singing styles and cultural elements to tell the story of Tamar (played by Margo Seibert), a coura…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:46PMThursday, October 16, 2014
Most of us celebrate our birthdays with a few close friends, one too many tequila shots, and cake (on which we’ll subsist for the next couple of days as well), but Emmy-award-winning compo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:12PMThursday, October 2, 2014
In Dirt, Austrian-American actor Christopher Domig plays Sad, an Iraqi immigrant living illegally in an unnamed metropolis. Sad spends his days selling roses to people who more often than no…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:08PMWith titles like Who’s Afraid of the Virgin Mary?, A T Stop Named Denial and All About Christmas Eve, Ryan Landry and his Gold Dust Orphans have turned the parody into a formidable art…
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