Live From The Hotel Edison Times Square Chronicles Presents, is filmed from the Hotel Edison and is a podcast extension of T2C. We are back after a small hiatus. Today owner Suzanna Bowling …
We talk endlessly about success. We celebrate the person standing beneath the brightest light, the institution with the largest budget, the production with the biggest advertising campaign a…
By Ken Fallin There are performances that impress you, and then there are performances in which you can actually see an actor transform thought into flesh. Linda Purl’s extraordinary work …
There is an extraordinary play buried inside Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. There may even be several of them. Unfortunately, at nearly three hours, Stoppard seems determined to giv…
There was no way of knowing, when the company of Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen recently gathered to meet the press, how suddenly the meaning of the afternoon would change. Sophia Anne Caruso …
Documentary theatre carries a particular responsibility. When the words spoken onstage are the actual words of real people, taken from events that shaped American history, the audience natur…
There is a perfectly good farce buried somewhere inside Henry Feldman’s Shelter Inn Place. Unfortunately, like its characters waiting out Hurricane Claudia, it has become trapped inside so…
BACHARACH FOR SURE — Regular readers of this column know that I hold a special place in my universe for Burt Bacharach. His music, from “Alfie” to “What The World Needs Now” are ju…
Spring Awakening Ken Fallin There is something almost unbearably poignant about the timing. On September 16, Seaview announced the young actors who will inherit Spring Awakening, the revolut…
Going Bacharach: The Songs of an Icon celebrated its opening night with a room filled not only with the music of Burt Bacharach, but with some formidable Broadway talent there to cheer on th…
If you love your musical theater packed with rafter-shaking singing, sexual tension, and deadly thrills, you are probably already a “Jeckie,” or ardent fan of the musical, Jeckyll and …
How did I not know this? That question has been following me around this week, especially after seeing Crow’s Theatre’s world-premiere stage adaptation of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Bala…
At a time when our nation is at war, our country is divided, and common decency is vanishing from our daily discourse, we need experiences which remind us of the potential for good that we…
Andrew Scott is returning to Sea Wall, the Simon Stephens play written specifically for him, but this time the performance will exist somewhere between theatre, cinema and documentary. Scott…
Burt Bacharach’s music is stitched into the very fabric of the American sound. His uncanny ability to shape songs through atypical chord progressions, shifting time signatures and elegant,…
Twenty-five years after Our Sinatra became one of Off-Broadway’s unexpected musical pleasures, Eric Comstock, Christopher Gines and Hilary Kole have returned to the material that started i…
There are Broadway events, and then there are Broadway rituals. The Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction belongs firmly in the second category. On Sunday, September 27, the Theatre Distr…
Marin Ireland’s Pre-Existing Condition returns Off-Broadway to the Greenwich House Theatre 27 Barrow Street, carrying both considerable acclaim and an extraordinarily impressive roster of …
For nearly two decades, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit have been traveling remarkably parallel Broadway roads. They arrived as young performers at almost exactly the same moment, became identif…
Broadway and Off-Broadway are heading into fall with major stars, surprising crossovers, record-breaking runs and a few farewells. Julia Roberts is returning to Broadway after two decades, &…
There are family secrets we inherit, family stories we repeat and family wounds we spend a lifetime trying to understand. In Crazy Mama: A True Story of Love and Madness, playwright Sharon S…
DamonHorowitz with-Truman Gaudoin, Desiree Baxter, Jim Pratzon and Tyler Moss Photo by Valerie Terranova There is a provocative idea buried inside Becoming Hamlet, Damon Horowitz’s new ada…
For composer and musical theatre artist Jaime Lozano, immigration is not an abstract political conversation. It is part of his own New York story. The Mexican immigrant artist arrived in the…
John Mellencamp’s America is heading to the stage. Ogunquit Playhouse will present the world premiere of Small Town: A John Mellencamp Musical, a new musical built around 24 songs from Mel…
There are certain conversations that simply belong in New York, and putting Gustavo Dudamel and Lin-Manuel Miranda together beneath the stars in Central Park feels like one of them. On Septe…