Sunday, March 31, 2019
Most Broadway shows stick with playbills. Heidi Schreck hands out take-home copies of the Constitution of the United States of America. Or, as her 15-year-old self puts it in her mostly one-…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMThursday, March 21, 2019
“Ain’t Too Proud,” the frustrating biographical Broadway musical about Motown’s hit-machine the Temptations, takes its title from a 1966 record, “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.” But i…
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Scott Ellis, whose body of work reveals him to be a softie, knows better than any other Broadway director how to key into the inner emotional lives of theater people. And he’s also keenly …
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMSunday, March 10, 2019
The new high school musical “Be More Chill” needed to take it own advice: Chill out, kids. And fear not your own truth! If all of its overplayed, insecure, overwrought, dial-in-the-red-z…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Did you know you die three times? According to Abe — the deep-thinking character played by Jake Gyllenhaal, no less, in the depressing double bill at the Public Theater — you actually co…
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Ever since Gregory Peck, the Tom Hanks of his moment, starred in the film version of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 1962, the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch has been a symbol of Am…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMThursday, December 6, 2018
Americans were mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in 1976. And — take a look outside your window — they’re still mad as hell and not going to take it anymore in 2018. But the…
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMMonday, December 3, 2018
Even jukebox musicals and celebrity bio-shows need clear reasons for theatrical being. In her one-woman show, Elaine Stritch memorably described herself as a “existential problem in tights…
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMThursday, November 15, 2018
Hoosiers are a great mystery to the people of Broadway. Apparently, they live in small, economically challenged towns best flown over. They insist on homophobic traditional values and, when …
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMThursday, October 18, 2018
“Truth isn’t truth,” Rudy Giuliani famously spluttered on “Meet the Press” last summer, trumping even presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway’s much-derided coinage of the phrase …
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:00PMSaturday, May 26, 2018
Our lips aren’t sealed. With a Go-Go’s jukebox musical, a happy hooker, and free Shakespeare all on deck, summer theater is heating up.
Linked From New York Daily News at 06:00AMWednesday, May 23, 2018
Creators John Kander, David Thompson and Susan Stroman previously collaborated on "The Scottsboro Boys.'
Linked From New York Daily News at 08:00PMBroadway’s red-light district has a new John — actually, Edward.
Linked From New York Daily News at 01:36PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
“Thinking of you all today and every day," Grande tweeted.
Linked From New York Daily News at 11:36AMMonday, May 21, 2018
Math, chemistry, English and royal etiquette are on high schooler Sydney Goldstein’s to-do list.
Linked From New York Daily News at 05:27PMWednesday, May 16, 2018
U2 will take a detour to Harlem on its upcoming tour — with or without you.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:34AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
People are falling for Harry Potter on Broadway — and not in a magical way.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:21PMSunday, May 13, 2018
Members of the audience said Parsons tripped during the encore Saturday and limped off stage.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:33AMThursday, May 10, 2018
The Broadway production of "To Kill a Mockingbird" will open after a lawsuit that threatened to shut down the production was settled.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:50PMAriana Grande's romance with Mac Miller has come to an end.
Linked From New York Daily News at 08:49AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
“Dance Nation” offers a vivid reminder that nailing choreography in a routine with all the right moves isn’t easy. Either is life.
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMSaturday, May 5, 2018
After 60 years in the music business, Paul Simon is ready for the sound of silence.
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:09PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Tony nominees Tina Fey, Denzel Washington and Nathan Lane celebrate their nods.
Linked From New York Daily News at 01:20PMIt doesn’t take a Hogwarts wizard to know that Tony noms can conjure magic at the box office.
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:36AMFriday, April 27, 2018
New music from ABBA means that fans have a reason to shout Mamma Mia!
Linked From New York Daily News at 10:49AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Does Denzel Washington delivereith in “The Iceman Cometh”? You bet — and then some.
Linked From New York Daily News at 07:30PMIn the aftermath of a Trump-loving tweetstorm, West dragged another famous friend into his social media dumpster fire: singer John Legend.
Linked From New York Daily News at 01:34PMWednesday, April 25, 2018
Broadway’s “Saint Joan” is a head-scratching misfire.
Linked From New York Daily News at 09:00PMA documentary about the late Howard Ashman and a musical by him in New York.
Linked From New York Daily News at 03:41PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Broadway’s sly and spry revival of Tom Stoppard's “Travesties” is guaranteed to work your gray matter. It also engages smile muscles.
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