Skid Row's resident dentist is passing the drill. Beginning May 26, Claybourne Elder will join the off-Broadway cast of Little Shop of Horrors as Dr. Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. Andy Karl will play his final perform…

He found roaring success on Broadway with Torch Song Trilogy, then appeared in blockbusters Mrs Doubtfire and Independence Day. But notoriety had a cost. The 73-year-old stage legend talks recovery, grief and w…

The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker's novel by Kip Williams. Here's a bite-sized look at the critics' verdicts Dracula, the Ur-vampire and ultimate outsider of the…

Sadler's Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal's dancers treat the audience like lovers in an entrancing show of seductive elegance Pina Bausch had a pair of secret weapons in Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisensch…

The concert event featured songs from the holiday favorite, launching its 19th annual tour this season.

The Grinch brought his signature holiday mischief to RiseNY for a torch performance and meet & greet, celebrating the 19th season of the acclaimed touring production, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! …

The concert event featured songs from the record-breaking, Tony-winning revival.

RiseNY, in a partnership with Playbill, hosted an unforgettable celebration of Chicago's nearly three decades on Broadway! Watch Sophie Carmen-Jones, Rachel Schur, and Nakiya Peterkin perform highlights from …

Tickets are now on sale for Craig Baldwin's adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard II starring Michael Urie. The production runs off-Broadway at Astor Place Theatre from October 28-November 30. Opening night is No…

The October 10 performance was part of Playbill's Torch Song Series for RiseNY.

New York City's immersive attraction RiseNY hosted an unforgettable Playbill Torch Song performance on Friday, October 10, to celebrate the one-night-only benefit I Put a Spell on You, featuring performances fr…

At This Theatre: The Hayes Home to the most recent Best Play Tony Award winner (Purpose), The Hayes Theatre, renamed to honor the first lady of the American Theater, Helen Hayes, started its life in 1912 as Th…

Times Square's immersive attraction RiseNY hosted an unforgettable Playbill Torch Song performance on Wednesday, August 21, featuring Broadway favorite Kerry Butler (Heathers the Musical, Bat Boy, Mean Girls, H…

The performance was part of the Torch Song Series, presented by RiseNY and Playbill.

 The Golden Girls' Broadway Connection Lately, I've been enjoying a binge watch of The Golden Girls which is currently celebrating its 40th anniversary! As I've been watching, it strikes me just how m…

We can all use a little more Harvey Fierstein in our lives. The multi-Tony (and more) award-winning actor and playwright who many of us recognize from recent local productions of "La Cage Aux Folles," "Kinky Bo…

Fair warning to anyone going to The Foundry for Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song because they want to see a play about a drag queen. Other than the lead works in drag for a living, but he could just as easily be a…

Kumail Nanjiani, Michael Urie and Jenn Harris will join the Broadway cast of Oh, Mary! as Mary's Husband, Mary's Teacher and Mary's Chaperone, respectively. Alongside Jinkx Monsoon, who will be the sho…

The actor discusses portraying the iconic drag queen in Vintage Theatre's production and why the story feels more relevant than ever.

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Harvey Fierstein took the stage to accept a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. After leaving the stage at Radio City Music Hall, he checked in with Broa…

Four-time Tony-winning playwright, actor, author and quilter Harvey Fierstein will receive the 2025 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre at this year's Tony Awards. "Harvey Fierstein's co…

Already a four-time Tony winner, Fierstein holds medallion statuettes for his work on Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, and Hairspray.

Fierstein has won four Tony Awards, including two for his ground-breaking play 'Torch Song Trilogy'

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Times Square's immersive attraction RiseNY has teamed up with Playbill on a new co-branded Torch Song Series, which will host performances from a ...

Times Square's immersive attraction RiseNY has teamed up with Playbill on a new co-branded Torch Song Series, which will host performances from a different Broadway musical every month. The series launche…

The performance is part of the new monthly Torch Song Series, hosted by RiseNY and Playbill.

Today, we return to our series, Best Songs From Best Scores, in which we take a look at the numbers from a season's Best Original Score Tony nominees. Of course, "best" is in the eye ear of the beholde…

Watch: Broadway Cabaret Star @adamlambert Sings 'I Don't Care Much' https://t.co/yt7qZwMl1M via @playbill < a torch song dealing with indifference ...

Play It Again: Oliver!'s "As Long As He Needs Me" For this new series, Jeff has invited me to choose some classic Broadway show tunes and compare versions of these songs from several different cast recordings.…

Those of us who love musicals root hard for each new one that comes along. And we root extra hard when we know that a new creative team is getting its first big break or that the show is based on an original id…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Paper Mill Playhouse will open its 2011-2012 season with the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies. Featuring music by eight time Academy Award®-winning composer Alan …

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Manhattan Theatre Club's World premiere of Bella Bella, written and performed by Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (Casa Valentina, Torch Song, Hairspray) and directed by Kimberly…

Michael Urie will join Sutton Foster in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress this summer. Urie returns to the role of Prince Dauntless while Foster reprises her performance as Winnifred the Woebeg…

From BroadwayWorld's Archive: Dan Cody's Yacht is now in previews ahead of a Wednesday, June 6 opening night at MTC at New York City Center - Stage I (131 West 55th Street). The cast of Dan Cody's Yacht feature…

Season-closing production is a showcase for lead actor Dean Linnard as neurotic drag queen Arnold Beckoff.

Harvey Fierstein's Classic Gay Comedy Touches Our Hearts by Barry David Horwitz Lend an ear and you will hear an authentic argument between a gay, New York drag queen son and his disappointed Jewish mom from Fl…

Ustinov, BathAs a woman who has left her husband for a dissolute younger man in postwar London, Greig's quiet despair compels The torch song Stormy Weather sobs between scenes in this revival of Terence Rattiga…

The new version of Harvey Fierstein's classic comedy, revised from the original into a shorter two-act production, gets its regional premiere at 1812 in a show that aptly emphasizes the writer's historical era.…

Although the defense of gay life and  the LGBTQ+  community is in a different place now, I imagine for many in the audience, Torch Song still sings. The post TORCH SONG (1812 Productions): Songs from anot…

Reviewed by Judd Hollander  The trick when presenting a biographical vehicle is to make sure the audience is able to relate to the subject in question. Especially if that subjects happen to be, in the words…

David Bedella will join the Broadway cast of & Juliet as Lance, the Olivier Award-winning role he originiated in the West End. He begins performances at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on March 5, taking…

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Michael Urie (Broadway's Spamalot, Torch Song, How to Succeed…) will host Out of the Box Theatrics' 2024-2025 season launch event on Monday, January 29, 2024.

ReDISCoveries: Assassins (Original Cast Recording) Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week or so, I'll write about a new CD, offerin…

ReDISCoveries: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1994 Broadway Cast Recording): Part One Jeff has kindly invited me to revisit and review some of the older cast recordings in my collection. Every other week or so, I'll…

 40 Years of Broadway: 1983 vs 2023 - The Good Stuff II In the first part of "The Good Stuff," we talked about administrative/economic aspects of the Broadway experience (HERE). Today, in the final part…

 Broadway Jeopardy! Game 7 OK, Broadway trivia fans! Time for another round of America's favorite game show a la JK's TheatreScene, and as you'll see we are going for the gold this week. Good luck! The…

June 10, 2023: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler Between 41st and 66th streets there are forty-two legit Broadway theatres (this includes the Palace, currently under renovation and scheduled to reo…

The 76th annual Tony Awards have already made history. For the first time, two of the acting nominees identify as non-binary: Harrison Ghee who is contending for lead actor in musical for "Some Like It Hot" and…

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita have welcomed their second child. The Take Me Out Tony winner took to Instagram on November 15 to announce the latest member of the Empires, the fictional baseball team in…

"I care a great deal. But not enough..." The 4 hour epic that launched Harvey Fierstein and finally made gay men palatable to many Americans...it's Torch Song Trilogy. Matt's mom, the iconic Dani Ticktin Kopli…

NEW YORK"The American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA) and Foundation ATCA have announced the first recipient of the ATCA Helbing fellowship for LGBTQ+ theater writers. Members of the Helbing Committee review…

Now that Covid has been around for more than two years and vaccines have made contracting the virus a little less scary, a new kind of normal is settling in. The Tony award ceremonies returned to Radio City Mus…

Harold Prince, victorious with Tony #20 for "Showboat," with Gregory Hines (1995).Now that the 2022 Tony Awards nominations have been announced and campaigning is in full swing, as usual, I can't get enough …

Join us for a special design workshop with Tony Award-winning Designers, Clint Ramos and David Zinn! Clint and David will speak with four MFA Scenic and Costume Design students as they participate in a casual, …

At Christmas a few years ago, Jeff gave me a copy of Broadway in a Box: The Essential Broadway Musicals Collection. He has now given me the opportunity to use his blog to share my impressions of each of the 25 …

Stage and screen star Antony Sher has died at the age of 72. In September, his husband, collaborator and Royal Shakespeare Company Artistic Director Gregory Doran announced he would take a period of compassi…

This Week in Broadway History: June 8 - 14 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭   June 10, 1982: Transferring from off-Broadway, Torch Song Trilogy  opened at The Little Theatre (renamed The Hele…

This Week in Broadway History: June 1 - 7 🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭   June 1, 1971: Good grief! You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a smash hit off-Broadway, opened at the Golden Theatre, where…

One of Broadway's most reliable character men, David Garrison, joins Rob and Kevin to look back on his time in such shows as A History of the American Film, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Pirate…

Holiday plans are in full swing thanks to this news! According to Variety, stage favorite Michael Urie is set to star in a new gay holiday rom-com directed by Tony winner Michael Mayer. Single All The Way, writ…

Urie's Broadway credits include 'Celebrity Autobiography,' 'Torch Song,' 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,' and the 2020 production of 'Grand Horizons.' 

Maybe best known for his starring role as Mark St. James on Ugly Betty (opposite Vanessa Williams), Michael Urie is not only a star of the stage and screen, but also a director and executive producer. He origin…

The theatre maker worked on Torch Song Trilogy, The Gathering, and Honeymoon in Vegas.

Martin Markinson, a producer and theater owner who took Torch Song Trilogy to Broadway and returned the venue now known as the Hayes Theatre to theatrical use, died Thursday, January 7 at his home in Santa Fe, …

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We started off this month's Musical of the Month, Hairspray with a look back at the origins and facts behind the original Broadway production. This week, we take a closer look at that cast and what the…

Who doesn't love a word search? How about one that is all about Broadway? It's the best of both worlds this week, readers! True, it covers this crazy past season, but still... Standard rules apply. Enjoy and ha…

Can you figure out how these shows connect to each other in order? Are they connected by an actor? A director? The theater they played in? Or something else altogether? Remember, you are figuring out how show 1…

The Extinction of Fireflies, James Andrew Walsh's new comedy starring multi-award winner Michael Urie ('Ugly Betty,' Buyer & Cellar, Torch Song) and Olivier Award winner Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow, …

Today's guests are award-winning actors Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Urie, who reunite to discuss their unforgettable turns as mother and son in the recent revival of TORCH SONG TRILOGY.

Earlier this week, we continued our Best of the Decade series with the first twelve Up and Comers of Broadway who came to our attention over the past ten seasons. Today, we give you the other thirteen of …

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita are parents. Beckett Mercer Ferguson-Mikita was born on July 7, according to People. "The new parents are overjoyed and excited for this new journey as a family of thr…

Judy Garland is born, Torch Song Trilogy opens on Broadway, and The Five Lesbian Brothers open Brave Smiles Off-Broadway.

Obie, Lortel, and Drama Desk Award- winner Michael Urie (Grand Horizons, Torch Song) will reprise his role in a livestreamed one-night-only performance of Buyer & Cellar to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity …

Michael Urie took to Twitter to share a video of himself performing Hamlet's famed 'To Be Or Not To Be' Soliloquy as Arnold Bekhoff from Torch Song!