'Piece of My Heart' - You Know the Songs, but Who Wrote Them?
Teal Wicks and Zak Resnick in Piece of My Heart (©Jenny Anderson) Who was Bert Berns? Chances are that pop music aficionados will know the answer, but the general public will not. B…
Teal Wicks and Zak Resnick in Piece of My Heart (©Jenny Anderson) Who was Bert Berns? Chances are that pop music aficionados will know the answer, but the general public will not. B…
Jason Cruz and Everett Quinton in Drop Dead Perfect (©John Quilty) Passions run high, secrets threaten to boil over, and camp theatrics are rife in Erasmus Fenn's melodramedy Drop Dea…
Seth Tucker, Marty Thomas, Alex Ringler, Curtis Wiley, Nic Cory, Nick Cearley in Pageant (©Jenny Anderson) As the musical Pagaent, which opened last night at the Davenport Theatre, st…
Scott Haze in The Long Shrift (©Joan Marcus) There must be something in the air. Or maybe it's that Gen Xers are hitting the point that they're contending with hitting middle age, but…
Hershey Felder in Maestro Bernstein (©Michael Lamont) On July 17, Hershey Felder will perform Maestro Bernstein: A Play with Music at New York's Town Hall. It's a show that he premier…
A scene from Wayra (©Jacob Cohl) It was good to be back in the Daryl Roth Theatre on Union Square East for Wayra, the new incarnation of the highly popular, long-running Fuerza Bruta t…
Last Friday's presentation of The Ambassador Revue at Town Hall should have been thrilling. After all, when, if ever, will a New York audience get another chance to experience over a dozen …
Samuel Ray Gates, Bill Dawes, Amir Arison, and Mather Zickel in The Muscles in Our Toes (©Monique Carboni) Stephen Belber's new play The Muscles in Our Toes, which the Labyrinth Theate…
Benjamin Scheuer in The Lion (©Matthew Murphy) There's a lot that's really pretty about Benjamin Scheuer's new one-man musical, The Lion, which opened last night at City Center (Stage…
Saul Williams and Saycon Sengbloh in Holler If Ya Hear Me (©Joan Marcus) Wouldn't it be marvelous to report that with the opening last night of Holler If Ya Hear Me at the Palace Thea…
Zoe Kazan in When We Were Young and Unafraid (©Joan Marcus) The times, they are a-changin', in Sarah Treem's new play When We Were Young and Unafraid, which opened last night at City …
Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater in Much Ado About Nothing (©Joan Marcus) Love is a battlefield in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, or, as is the case in Jack O’Brien…
Peter Friedman, Adam Chanler-Berat and Michael McCormick in Fly By Night (©Joan Marcus) A goofy, whimsical nostalgia combines with a metaphysical worldview in the new musical Fly By Ni…
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Jim Dale in Just Jim Dale (©Joan Marcus) Watching the new one-man show that opened last night at Roundabout Theatre's Laura Pels Theatre, the word "endearing" comes to mind over and. …
Scott Richard Foster and Marcus Stevens in Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging (©Carol Rosegg) Probably one of the best things about spring in New York in my book is the knowledge t…
Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts in The Realistic Joneses (©Joan Marcus) If Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, and Thornton Wilder were to have co-written a pl…
Sutton Foster in Violet (©Joan Marcus) What a pleasure to find Tony Award winner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) in a show where her formidable talents are put…
Suzanne Bertish, Paxton Whitehead, and David Pittu in The Heir Apparent (©Richard Termine) A trio of connivers work feverishly to make sure a dying man's wealth falls to them in David …
David Cromer, Bryce Clyde Jenkins, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose, Denzel Washington, and Sophie Okonedo in A Raisin in the Sun (©Brigitte Lacombe) The sound of theater…
Laura Osnes and Michael Park in The Threepenny Opera (© Kevin Thomas Garcia) For a show that's supposed to be "so cheap that even a beggar could afford it," Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Wei…
Brian Sutherland and Diane Sutherland in A Second Chance (© Joan Marcus) Through the Shen Family Foundation, Ted Shen has spent over a decade supporting some of the most exciting new m…
A scene from Amaluna (Photo courtesy of Cirque du Soleil) With the new show Amaluna, Shakespeare has come to Cirque du Soleil's Grand Chapiteau in Amaluna, which has been erected at CitiFie…
Matt Doyle in Jasper in Deadland (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Hunter Foster and Ryan Scott Oliver put a contemporary and youthful spin on the Orpheus myth in Jasper in Deadland, a new musical t…
Margo Seibert and Andy Karl in Rocky (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Put aside all preconceived notions that you may have about the musical version of the classic 1976 movie Rocky, which opened la…