Tuesday, March 21, 2017
By Meredith Ganzman The rousing opening number of the new Broadway musical Come From Away bids us “Welcome to the Rock,” specifically, to Newfoundland, Canada, an island off the easter…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:08AMThursday, March 9, 2017
By Meredith Ganzman Will Jordan ever meet a nice guy and settle down? That’s the subject of Significant Other, the new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews). But Jordan is not just the straight…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 12:01PMThursday, January 26, 2017
Mandy Gonzalez (“Hamilton,” “In the Heights”), Juan Pablo Di Pace (“Fuller House,” “Dallas”), Nellie McKay and more will be featured performer…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 06:30PMMonday, December 5, 2016
By Adam Cohen There are two primary reasons to see ‘The Bodyguard: The Musical,’ currently playing at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ: Deborah Cox and Jasmine Richardson. If Cox…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:35AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
From December 8-14, Broadway stars–and starring couple–Andy Karl and Orfeh will take the stage together at Feinstein’s/54 Below in their show, “Legally Bound.” …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 12:26PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) “Don’t go to the theater,” Lyubov says. “Look at your own life more often.” It’s a seemingly ironic sentiment to express on a Broadway stage, cons…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:18AMSaturday, October 29, 2016
By Liz Lombardi We hear about the hero. Theirs is the story that always gets told, regardless if they live or die. But what about the other players in the story? The many other characters, s…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 11:16AMThursday, October 27, 2016
BY MEREDITH GANZMAN (@MGANZMAN) “Has turning 30 always sucked?” Jonathan asks in Tick, Tick…Boom! I don’t know. But as I personally prepare for this milestone birthday in less th…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 03:37PMSunday, October 23, 2016
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) Germs and fear, rather than romance, are likely to spread by surprise and an unfamiliar kiss at a train station. Consider it a perfect and cruel way to fright…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:33AMMonday, October 17, 2016
By Anne-Allegra Bennett (@aab_artiste) In honor of his 80th birthday, Ira Lee Collings lights up the room at Don’t Tell Mama with his show Simply, Ira Lee (a Gay Geezer Celebration Through…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:53PMFriday, October 14, 2016
This week, Center On The Aisle’s CENTER VIEW correspondents Jamie deRoy and Stephen Sorokoff headed to Feinstein’s/54 Below for the club’s latest press preview. There, they…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:14AMThursday, October 13, 2016
Nat Turner in Jerusalem can’t quite acquit itself. By Doug Strassler (@DougDawg13) Get ready to hear a lot about Nat Turner this fall. The executed leader of one of the better-known slave …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:56AMBy Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) The mise en scène: an audition waiting room. Allen, an actor (Anthony Franqui) enters, picks up a piece of paper, and begins rehearsing his character’s…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:38AMBy Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) It’s George and Gil’s world- we’re just living in it. Meet the two 70 something senior citizens of the Upper West Side in the new Broadway two-man play …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:02AMSaturday, October 8, 2016
A Broadway Heart to Heart: Stay Close, in Luxury and in Love. Falsettos is back on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater for a limited time only! To celebrate the return of this groundbreaking…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 12:20PMFriday, October 7, 2016
By Adam Cohen Mel Brooks’ Tony award-winning musical comedy The Producers, based on his 1968 film, has been winningly and lovingly revived at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jers…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:08AMBy Meredith Ganzmann (@MGanzman) America’s biggest drama is its current political theatre, and it’s increasingly become an unbearable show to watch. There’s no real intermission either…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 06:34AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
By Meredith Ganzman The Encounter may be the first Broadway show where upon taking your seat you must put on headphones rather than take them off. In fact, without them you won’t be able t…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:29AMFriday, September 23, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) On Tuesday, September 27, Tony winner Laura Benanti (She Loves Me, Gypsy, “Supergirl”) will make her Café Carlyle…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 09:02AMFriday, September 16, 2016
By Doug Strassler (@DougDawg13) Two years ago, Amas Musical Theater resurrected a mostly forgotten chestnut, “Red Eye of Love”. Fortunately, those who may have missed its brief run on th…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 10:14AMFriday, September 9, 2016
By Anne-Allegra Bennett (@aab_artiste) The disco world of the seventies was recently brought back to life in the jukebox musical, “Disaster!” at the Nederlander Theater. Featuring some o…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:52AMBy R. Jones The Robber Bridegroom revival cast recording is like opening up a good book that you can’t put down. You are immediately transported to the world in which the characters …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:33AMTuesday, August 9, 2016
Tonight, iconic performer Tony Danza and Tony Award nominee Carmen Cusack will each headline at Feinstein’s/54 Below; Danza, in the latest in a series of dates at the club for his show…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 06:59AMMonday, August 8, 2016
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) Last month, Puerto Rican actor, singer, and artist, Ektor Rivera assumed the role of Emilio Estefan in Gloria Estefan’s autobiographical musical, “…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:12PMFriday, August 5, 2016
Now at Feinstein’s/54 Below, two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz has returned with his hit show, “Girls, Girls, Girls.” Recently, CENTER VIEW correspondent Jamie d…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:31PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
By Shari Lifland (@shariontheaisle) It’s not always easy being blonde—we’ve all heard the jokes. But like iconic blonde megastar Dolly Parton—who once quipped: “I’m not offended …
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:33AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
“I’m just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing,” Carmen Cusack said, sounding carefree, in a recent interview about her solo concert debut at NYC�…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:54AMMonday, August 1, 2016
By Meredith Ganzman (@MGanzman) For a certain generation of theatergoers, from 1982 to 2000, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats was a part of their musical upbringing. It was not a part of mine, o…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 07:25AMFriday, July 29, 2016
By Adam Cohen “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel that was adapted into a musical by the legendary songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken is curren…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:47AMThursday, July 28, 2016
By Doug Strassler Class has been in session at Hell’s Kitchen’s 777 Theatre ever since Matt Murphy’s raucous show Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man began educating…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:51AMThursday, July 21, 2016
By Anne Carr New technology and a nostalgia for an older America made for a wonderfully imaginative and unique evening at the Sheen Center last week. Bridgman|Packer is Art Bridgman and…
SOURCE: centerontheaisle.com at 08:07AM 
