Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Every third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For March, …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:40AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
It’s the vernal equinox so, as Oscar Hammerstein once wrote, I might as well post Spring.
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 07:35AMSunday, March 18, 2012
Get caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me tossing in my two cents… ONCE Th…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:30PMThursday, March 15, 2012
It’s raining men in a drenched round-up of the week’s theater headlines: The superstar combo of director Mike Nichols, Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 02:49PMYesterday, I said that Show Folk this month was “getting epic;” you thought it was just a lame Homer joke. Truth is, we’re doubling up on great interviews with another lead…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:54AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Once a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I’ll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:43AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
We’ve been so busy with our anniversary that we haven’t done a news round-up in a while–so let’s hit the gas and catch up on the last week and a half of theatrical ha…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:12AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The theatrical adaptation of the Irish indie film Once doesn’t open on Broadway until this Sunday, March 18 (St. Patty’s Day weekend, don’t ya know) but the cast album is a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:37AMFriday, March 9, 2012
If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the last year of editing The Broadway Blog, it’s this: theater people like looking at cute guys. One year and 252 posts later, the mo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:07AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Get caught up with what’s on stage with our review round-up. And that vaguely hollow, clinking sound you hear at the end of each segment? That’s me tossing in my two cents. This month, i…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:10AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Family. No matter how distanced or strained, the bond between family is a thin but neon-glowing thread, unmistakeable to anyone watching two family members interact. The bond between sibling…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:01AMMonday, March 5, 2012
In our continuing series, we’re taking a look at songs cut from Broadway musicals to see what happens in the making of a show. Next up, the first song finished–and revised–…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:26AMFriday, March 2, 2012
Extra! Extra! We’ve got your quick and tasty theater news headlines for the week that was: Music theater deity Stephen Sondheim let slip to London’s Evening Standard that he is w…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:16PMThursday, March 1, 2012
Carrie Stephen King’s tale of a prom queen with a nasty temper, one of the most infamous musical flops of all time, returns from the grave with new material by the original writers and…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:14PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
When there’s a month with a fifth Wednesday, I’ll be heading Way-Off-Broadway for a look at theatrical happenings outside New York City. This Leap Day, we’re hopping around the cou…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:55AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
February’s Most Valuable (Theatrical) Player works hard for the money. Actually, given the Off-Broadway venues she performed in this month, I’m guessing she worked hard for not a…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:19AMMonday, February 27, 2012
Celebrities must hate youtube. All it takes is a few clicks and we can see video proof of their most embarrassing moments. (To understand, imagine someone followed you around high school wit…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:48AMFriday, February 24, 2012
Find some room on the proverbial couch because we’ve got some casting news to report: Ready to make your Broadway debut? The sashaying folks at Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Ticke…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:06AMThursday, February 23, 2012
Get ready for more music of the night–just not on Broadway. Love Never Dies, the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Weber’s smash musical The Phantom of the Opera (which celebrated its 10,0…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 09:56AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Every fourth Wednesday of the month, the “VIP Access” column will serve up advice on how to make your theater-going experiences cheaper, easier and more fulfilling with inside scoop from…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:31AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Are you ready for this Sunday’s Academy Awards telecast? (I’d call it the gay Super Bowl but after Madonna’s halftime show and the Beckham underwear ads, this year’s …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:45AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Within the last seven days, I saw Moby Dick sing, a Prom Queen blow up a gym and Captain Kirk take a bow on Broadway. If that isn’t the strangest week of theater I’ve ever exper…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:18AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Every third Wednesday, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine. For Februar…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 08:32AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
The passing of pop music superstar Whitney Houston was a sad loss for everyone, including members of the Broadway community. Two-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel (Hair) posted this song on You…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 12:09PMMonday, February 13, 2012
NYC’s fizziest variety show celebrates another year of jazzy stars and Broadway voices with The Best of Jim Caruso’s Cast Party, a benefit for The Actors Fund at Town Hall, Thur…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:21AMFriday, February 10, 2012
At opening night of the City Center Encores presentation of Merrily We Roll Along, a man two seats away from me was weeping, full on Terms of Endearment sobs. It wasn’t the end of the…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:06AMTuesday, February 7, 2012
Jacques Brel Returns, the long-running evening of songs by the beloved Belgian songwriter and chanteur, continues to romance audiences by adding two special February shows at The Triad, Wedn…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 11:13AMMonday, February 6, 2012
Smash, the new NBC series about the making of a Broadway musical, finally arrives tonight at 10/9c after months of relentless buzz building. Let’s celebrate our little corner of the wo…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:50AMFriday, February 3, 2012
OK, not really. Scott Rudin doesn’t even know who I am, I imagine. But it would be great if you would join our conversation on Facebook and Twitter, even without a threat. If you want …
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:17AMOnce a month, a member of the theater community will pull up a chair to our cyber table and join us for a little conversation. I’ll edit the transcripts (removing the truly libelous parts)…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 10:16AMThursday, February 2, 2012
When I saw the early 1990′s revival of Hello Dolly!, I was excited but decidedly nervous. How in the world could it’s original leading lady, now in her 70′s, possibly handl…
SOURCE: The Broadway Blog at 01:06PM 
