2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: Paulanne Simmons
The Cottage , a comedy by actress/playwright Sandy Rustin has been around since 2013 when it premiered at Astoria Performing Arts Center, and now it's landed on Broad…
By: David Sheward
July 29, 2023: Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson (American Crime Story) will return to the New York stage in the Broadway premiere of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkin…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 29, 2023: Sandy Rustin (Clue, a popular stage adaptation of the board game and cult film) is the American author of Broadway'sfaux British sex farce, The Cottage…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 27, 2023: Ten years ago, I was standing on the crowded floor of a modestly-sized space at Off Broadway's Public Theatre with a couple of hundred other human sard…
By: Patrick Christiano
Written and performed by Alan Palmer, Chanteuse: A Survival Musical, is a fascinating tale with a cruel unforgiving message.Â
July 24, 2023: Chanteuse: A Surviva…
By: David Sheward
July 25, 2023: If you looking for a fizzy cocktail to help you cool off from the global triple-digit heat wave, you couldn't find a funnier or more intoxicating concocti…
By: David Sheward
July 23,2023: You don't need a working knowledge of basketball to enjoy Flex, Candrice Jones's infectious and fast-paced new play on friendship and competition in a high…
Nils Allen "Booboo" Stewart Jr. Exhibition @ Park West Gallery SoHo
July 22, 2023:Â Actor/musician, Nils Allen "Booboo" Stewart Jr., best known for playing Seth Clearwater in The Twiligh…
By: David Sheward
July 21, 2023: IATSE, the union representing backstage technicians and craftspeople, and the Broadway League and Disney have reached a tentative agreement, awaiting rati…
Nostalgic videos from Broadway Babe include Mel Brooks on Johnny Carson, a star- studded PBS Camelot concert, Merv Griffin, and Jack Cassidy.
July 22, 2023: Broadway Babe, Randie Lev…
By: Alix Cohen
July 20, 2023: Wunderkind Charles Kirsch, whose smart theater interview podcasts now number over 150, brought the second iteration of his live show to 54Below Monday night.…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 18, 2023: Tennessee Williams's Orpheus Descending has never been a critical favorite, and only the most enraptured Williams fans are likely to admire it much. F…
Annual Summer Gala returns to Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. Honorees include Julie Andrews, Matthew Broderick, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
July 9, 2023: Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor h…
By: Alix Cohen
July 11, 2023: The Oxford English Dictionary definition of this invaluable collaborator is, to say the least, simplistic:Â The person responsible for the musical aspects…
5 Reasons Why "FAME-ish" is More Than Just GREAT-ish
By: Iris Wiener
July 13, 2023: Tichina Arnold and Beth Behrs know how to throw a party. The effervescent stars of the hit CBS series …
By: Marc Rifkin
July 10, 2023: "It was a strange coincidence," Nick Carraway says in chapter four of The Great Gatsby.Jordan Baker responds, "But it wasn't a coincidence at all."
Aft…
Nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include opening night (1960) of Camelot with Richard Burton & Julie Andrews; Mel Brooks, Lana Turner, and Lauren Bacall.Â
July 10, 2023: Broadway …
Beat the heat this Summer with some "Binge Worthy" BroadwayHD title.
July 6, 2023: When the heat rises this Summer, turn up the AC and chill out with BroadwayHD, the premiere streaming ser…
By: Alix Cohen
July 7, 2023: Three years ago, Steve Ross and I were bemoaning lack of musical theater/cabaret awareness and appreciation among young people, when he suggested I listen to…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
July 5, 2023: Two mainstream comedy shows recently opened in New York, both directed by the late Adam Brace, who died in April at the tragically young age of 43. One …
By: David Sheward
July 4, 2023: Alex Edelman begins his Broadway one-man show Just for Us at the Hudson Theater with fairly standard jokes about gorillas and horses, but he soon makes a d…
Dial M For Murder at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor brings a Fun-Filled modern flare to the classic mystery with a fresh and witty adaptation by Jeffery Hatcher.
July 2, 2023: Dial M For…
By: David Sheward
July 2, 2023: A pair of current Off-Broadway productions present nontraditional interpretations of two of the most iconic male protagonists in Western literature"Hamlet, …
Imitation of Life Musical in Development
By: David Sheward
June 30, 2023: A new musical based on Imitation of Life, the Fannie Hurst novel and the classic Hollywood film version and su…
By: David Sheward
June 28, 2923: Remember when theater used to be of the moment and reflect what was going on outside the auditorium politically and socially? How playwrights were like do…
