Monday, November 11, 2024
No one needs to wonder how Mandy Gonzalez feels about playing Norma Desmond once a week in the insanely entertaining Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard. Her solo album, after all, is title…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:31PMMonday, October 21, 2024
How to revive the lost art of the Broadway rom-com? A compelling true story by Delia Ephron is a great start, along with five-time Tony winner Susan Stroman as director. But the key, of cour…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 05:36PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
What do you get when you toss Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Madame Bovary and many other works of world literature into a chatbot? Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Ayad Akhtar imagines the resul…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:06AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Casting is one of director Kenny Leon’s special powers, so when he calls Ephraim Sykes “a superstar in the American theater,” it’s worth paying attention. Leon first took note of Syk…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:54AMWednesday, October 2, 2024
Francis Jue’s stage career has been happily entwined with the works of David Henry Hwang for 35 years, since Jue understudied the title role in M. Butterfly. Although they look nothing ali…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:18AMMonday, August 26, 2024
The crowd-pleasing Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress lets loose a cast of musical comedy all-stars in scenes involving puppets, leeches, a “facts of life” pantomime and, of course…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:06PMThursday, August 8, 2024
A psychological thrill ride is a rarity on Broadway, which helps explain why Max Wolf Friedlich’s new play JOB (as in work, not the Old Testament book) is attracting an enthusiastic audien…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Joshua Boone wasn’t looking for a Broadway musical when he heard about The Outsiders. After nabbing two NAACP Image Award nominations for his sensitive lead performance in Tyler Perry’s …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:48PMExactly 40 years ago, Betsy Aidem talked her way into John Malkovich’s now legendary off-Broadway production of Balm in Gilead alongside future stars Laurie Metcalf, Gary Sinise and Terry …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:32AMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Imagine a marathon of the plays and musicals that earned Jack O’Brien three Tony Awards and six additional Tony nominations for Best Director. How, we may wonder, did the person who direct…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:42AMTuesday, June 4, 2024
There’s a built-in audience for the new Broadway dance musical Illinoise among fans of Sufjan Stevens’ indie rock music and admirers of Justin Peck’s choreography for the New York City…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:42AMFriday, May 31, 2024
Over the past four years, for obvious reasons, “home” has become a symbol of safety and wellbeing. More than 40 years ago, playwright Samm-Art Williams explored the many meanings of the …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:48AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
From aspiring actor to theatrical ad agency executive to four-time Tony-nominated writer of plays and musicals, Rick Elice has seen it all (and then some!) on Broadway. Still boyishly enthus…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:32AMMonday, April 22, 2024
On stage, “chemistry” usually refers to a romantic pairing, but in the case of the new musical Hell’s Kitchen, it’s the perfect description for the teacher-pupil bond between Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMWednesday, April 17, 2024
There’s an easy way to unleash the positive power of social media: Post a photo of Beth Leavel. “Icon,” “Queen” and, simply, “Mother” flood the comments, along with heart and c…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 10:36AMWednesday, April 10, 2024
The Outsiders was published in 1967, the year before Adam Rapp was born, but he vividly remembers devouring S.E. Hinton’s now-classic YA novel in his dorm room at military school. The tale…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMMonday, April 8, 2024
“Listen to that! Will you listen to that?” Reg Rogers gleefully cries in one of the most joyous moments of Merrily We Roll Along. As Broadway producer Joe Josephson, he’s reacting to t…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:06PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
Opening one new musical on Broadway is an enviable accomplishment for any director. But three? In the same season? Michael Greif began 2024 with the Broadway transfer of Days of Wine and Ros…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 02:36PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
The last time Maryann Plunkett starred in a Broadway musical, she won the 1987 Best Actress Tony Award, singing with a Cockney accent and dancing the “Lambeth Walk” in Me and My Girl. Al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AMWednesday, March 11, 2020
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes another Company revival. Fifty years after Company changed the face of Broadway musicals, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s enduringly modern examinat…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:32PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Broadway is gearing up for the super-busy spring season, with nine new shows starting previews in the next two weeks. First up, Princess Diana sings, the Lehman Brothers scheme, George and M…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:06PMFriday, February 21, 2020
If you crave a good dark comedy, this is your week to head to Broadway: Tracy Letts’ The Minutes and Martin McDonagh’s Hangmen promise a double-dose of nasty fun. A gorgeous new opera ba…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:12PMFriday, February 14, 2020
If your musical bucket list includes Mack & Mabel or Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, you’re in luck: Both shows get first-class stagings in the coming week. Also on tap a…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:48PMFriday, February 7, 2020
Be our Valentine in a week of must-do events centering on love, marriage and a couple of beheadings. Our list for February 10 through 16 includes six wives, an engaged couple, a family in cr…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:24PMFriday, January 31, 2020
Music is the tie that binds this week’s must-do events, spotlighting the folk rock of Bob Dylan, the Cambodian pop of Dengue Fever and contemporary songs by Young Jean Lee. Check out these…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:18PMSaturday, January 25, 2020
It’s raining men (hallelujah!) on stage and in concert in this week’s must-do events—specifically Jordan Fisher, André De Shields, Charles Busch and Tituss Burgess. Check them out, al…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 03:54PMFriday, January 17, 2020
January may be a sleepy month at the movies, but Broadway is buzzing with a star-packed new play and the Broadway debut of a Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Add in a couple of can’t-miss cab…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:03PMSunday, January 12, 2020
Whether you’re in the mood for a one-person show on Broadway, a sexy off-Broadway musical, a cool cabaret show or the TV return of two beloved pros, we’ve got you covered. Check out thes…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:54PMSunday, January 5, 2020
Got the post-holiday blues? Lift your spirits at Chicago, where Erika Jayne and Paulo Szot are the new Roxie and Billy, thrill to the vocals of four former Phantoms and LOL at the new music…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:54PMSunday, December 15, 2019
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and Hanukkah, with a rush to wrap last-minute gifts and celebrate with family and friends. Enjoy our final list of must-do events for 2019, cove…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:24PMSunday, December 8, 2019
Two world premiere plays, a reinvented classic musical and a high-flying holiday special are among the treats on tap at NYC theater this week. Read on for all the details on our five must-do…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:18PM 
