Thursday, February 27, 2020
Sophia Anne Caruso, the talented young star of “Beetlejuice,” surprised a lot of the musical’s fans when she announced on Instagram last week that she’d performed her last show. Acto…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:07PMWant drama, gossip and theatrics? Then head to a gay birthday party! That’s where writer-performer Drew Droege set his latest off-Broadway solo show, “Happy Birthday Doug,” a comedy ab…
Linked From The New York Post at 05:36PMThursday, February 20, 2020
It feels pretty . . . different. A galvanizing new revival of “West Side Story” opened Thursday night on Broadway, minus some familiar sights and sounds. Jerome Robbins’ legendary …
Linked From The New York Post at 08:24PMBoston theatergoers recently said they had “the best time of their lives” at the play.
Linked From The New York Post at 06:28PMA brand new take on “West Side Story” opens Thursday at the Broadway Theatre. Even before the critics have had their say about it online late tonight and in print Friday morning, it’s …
Linked From The New York Post at 04:32PMThursday, February 13, 2020
As far as I can tell, the one and only time an Antônio Carlos Jobim song was heard on Broadway was in Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away.” The song was “Wave,” which, as I write this, m…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:40PMThursday, February 6, 2020
Bob Avian will never forget the moment Michael Bennett told him he had AIDS. The two had been friends since 1959, when they met as dancers on a tour of “West Side Story.” “We were like…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:18PMThursday, January 30, 2020
The New York Musical Festival was created to give new writers a start. So isn’t it “ironic,” says Josh Canfield, whose “Alive! The Zombie Musical” played NYMF last year, that it …
Linked From The New York Post at 03:51PMThursday, January 23, 2020
The show may stand out because of its writer — Anthony McCarten, who's up for a 2020 Oscar for his movie "The Two Popes."
Linked From The New York Post at 05:51PMWithin our smartphones is a world of smiley faces, flowers, royals . . . and a pile of poo. And now many of them have come alive, in the off-Broadway musical “Emojiland.” Several key pla…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:33PMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Wax on Broadway. After etching itself into the hearts of movie fans forever, “The Karate Kid” franchise is onto the next frontier — the big stage. That’s right, the original 1984 mov…
Linked From The New York Post at 03:06PMThursday, January 16, 2020
Stephen Sondheim has been a fan of director Marianne Elliott’s ever since he saw her production of “Saint Joan” in London at the National Theatre in 2007. Sondheim knows a great direct…
Linked From The New York Post at 04:00PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
Audiences aren’t showing up at “My Name Is Lucy Barton” for Lucy — they’re coming for Linney. That’s Laura Linney, the venerable actress, who stars in the one-woman play, adapted…
Linked From The New York Post at 11:06PMBefore he goes onstage, he listens to Count Basie and the blues; afterward, he decompresses by cooking.
Linked From The New York Post at 03:34PMThursday, January 9, 2020
Ready for my favorite “Hee Haw” joke? Q: What do you call a man who doesn’t believe in birth control? A: Daddy! Exactly six years ago, I was picking up good buzz about “Moonshine,”…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:33PMA second actor in Broadway’s “West Side Story” has suffered an onstage injury, and this time he’ll leave the show: Ben Cook, who played the role of Riff, sustained the unspecified in…
Linked From The New York Post at 02:42PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
The flashy girl from Flushing could be coming to Broadway.
Linked From The New York Post at 01:55PMMary Jane is a suburban tiger mom, addicted both to opioids and to keeping up appearances. That we end up caring so deeply about her, Alanis Morissette says, is a tribute to Elizabeth Stanle…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:27PMTuesday, January 7, 2020
The legendary "West Side Story" songwriter suffered a fall that left him unable to attend the opening of his namesake theater in London.
Linked From The New York Post at 06:56PMThursday, January 2, 2020
It’s been a week since the death, at 88, of Jerry Herman, whose scores to “Hello, Dolly!” and “Mame” defined the brassy, sassy sound of a musical comedy at the tail end of Broadway…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:21PM“It’s so crazy!” says Emily Walton of co-starring with her uncle Jim.
Linked From The New York Post at 01:06PMSaturday, December 28, 2019
If you tried too hard to be funny, Don Imus wouldn’t help you with fake laughter. If you tried to poke fun at him and he wasn’t in the mood, he’d flatten you.
Linked From The New York Post at 04:29PMThursday, December 26, 2019
The theater lost three giants in 2019: Hal Prince, Franco Zeffirelli and Carol Channing. Here, in their own words, are several other greats worth remembering. Diahann Carroll Diahann Carroll…
Linked From The New York Post at 06:29PMAdrienne Warren and Steven Skybell deserve Broadway's splotlight.
Linked From The New York Post at 02:04PMThursday, December 19, 2019
Its weekly grosses were so low, the Shuberts exercised the stop clause.
Linked From The New York Post at 05:54PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
On Broadway, she’s playing the Ghost of Christmas Present, but LaChanze, a Florida native, remembers a snowy Christmas past, her family’s first in New England: “Me and my brothers and …
Linked From The New York Post at 12:52PMThursday, December 12, 2019
When Andrew Lloyd Webber read the screenplay for “Cats,” he knew something was missing: a song for Victoria, an abandoned cat who wasn’t in his stage musical. “She had no voice at al…
Linked From The New York Post at 07:18PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
Tired of the same old carols, nutcrackers and Grinches? If so, these off-kilter Christmas shows may be just the ticket. “A Very Meow Meow Holiday Show” Imagine a Christmas spectacular go…
Linked From The New York Post at 01:19PMMore social issues are addressed in “Jagged Little Pill” than at a Democratic presidential debate. Opioid addiction, race, bisexuality, sexual assault — the Alanis Morissette musical, …
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