Broadway is about to turn purple. Forty-two years after Prince forever changed music, film, and pop culture with Purple Rain, the legendary story is finally making its long-awaited journey t…
If you’ve been sitting in your seat trying to resist dancing during Buena Vista Social Club, Broadway has some very good news for you. Following two roof-raising, sold-out Dance-Along perf…
There are few New York traditions more quintessential than spending a summer afternoon in Bryant Park as Broadway’s brightest voices fill the Midtown skyline. The 2026 edition of Broadway …
Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block, Brandon Uranowitz, Andrew Rannells, Betsy Wolfe, Tracie Thoms in 2026 Broadway fans have plenty to celebrate this fall, from a long-awaited Falsettos reu…
Forget the lazy days of summer. Broadway is already setting the table for one of its most ambitious seasons in recent memory, with Oscar winners, Emmy favorites, Marvel superheroes, Shakespe…
There are Broadway composers who write songs for productions, and then there are composers who quietly build a musical vocabulary that lives beyond the stage. With the release of Bell Tower …
A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every doorway feels too narrow. Every unex…
Let’s face it. Chicago theater audiences are spoiled, and we have been ever since Steppenwolf burst onto the scene fifty years ago. New Yorkers often settle for surface polish and shallow …
Iceboy! – The Musical now receiving its world premiere at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is based on one truly wacky premise. The show is narrated by the spirit of famed playwright Eugene …
The genius of Stephen Sondheim never grows old for me. It’s always a pleasure to revisit my favorite shows of his. The production of A Little Night Music which just opened at Marriott …
A STERN SHOT — He may have signed a new deal last December, but Howard Stern is cutting back his SiriusXM show to just one live broadcast week after Labor Day; and past content will fill i…
SAG HARBOR, NY — Some honors feel ceremonial. Others feel deeply personal. On Saturday evening, Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts celebrated one of Broadway’s most …
There are performers you admire. Then there are performers you look forward to seeing because you know, without question, they are going to make the evening better. Josh Grisetti was one of …
Broadway’s 2026–2027 season is taking shape with an impressive lineup of star-powered productions, acclaimed London transfers and ambitious new plays, while several noteworthy cast recor…
The most persistent conversations often happen inside our own heads. Medusa asks, or maybe demands, us to listen to them. Before the space ignites, audience members slip on a pair of headpho…
There are solo shows built around larger-than-life personalities, and then there are those rare evenings where the storyteller quietly becomes the star. I Want Joan Crawford’s Oscar belong…
History has a way of repeating itself—sometimes so loudly that it becomes impossible to ignore. Beginning July 14, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been welcomes an extraordinary new lineup of…
Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is normally filmed from the Hotel Edison, but today we went on location at The Bay Street Theatre for the opening of Cagney. Live…
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play. Sitting in the beautifully reimagi…
Most people dream of winning an Oscar. Craig Horsley simply decided to buy one. That audacious premise fuels I Want Joan Crawford’s Oscar, a humorous and surprisingly suspenseful new solo …
For a nation preparing to celebrate its 250th birthday, Cagney The Musical feels like exactly what America ordered. Produced in association with Riki Kane Larimer, Cagney opened tonight July…
Some overtures begin a musical. Others seem to unlock an entire lifetime of theatrical memories. Both are true as the first notes of Jule Styne’s unmistakable score fill Shaw’s Festival …
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard, as he thought we were starting a wee bit late…
The first image grabs hold, even before Shakespeare has begun his relentless march toward tragedy. A body slowly emerges from beneath the stage, crawling upward as though clawing its way out…
There are moments in history when society collectively begins to question the values it once held sacred. The summer of 1969 was one such period. America watched astronauts land on the moon,…