2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: Isa Goldberg
April 5, 2023: What is joie de vivre, if not "Dancin'"! With direction and staging by Wayne Cilento, Bob Fosse's explosive choreography gets a rousing revival on Broadway…
B'way Update: Window Replaces Sign
By: David Sheward
April 5, 2023: Donald Trump's 34-count indictment isn't the only big news coming out of Manhattan this week. The revival of Lorraine …
Nostalgic finds from Broadway Babe include Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis Jr. Janet Leigh & Jamie Lee Curtis on the Phil Donahue Show, plus a documentary on Elaine Stritch.
April 3, 202…
By: David Sheward
At the 1988 Tony Awards, the big battle was between the shows composed by the two respective behemoths of the American and British musical theater: Stephen Sondheim's twi…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 4, 2023: Vanities, Jack Heifner's comedy-drama, opened at Playwrights Horizons on January 15, 1976, ran for 13 performances, and then transferred to the Che…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 2, 2023: One of the most popular forms of theatre in the 19th century was the spectacular melodrama, a play whose most potent impact depended on special effects…
Jade Jones, Amy Keum, and Hayley Podschun star as three friends pushing the boundaries of their lives in a revised Vanities " The Musical directed by Will Pomerantz at The York.
March 31, 2…
B'way Update: Smash to the Stage, Roundabout and CSC Seasons
By: David Sheward
March 30, 2023: It hardly seems possible, but there are already plans being hatched for the 2023-24 and 202…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 31, 2023: Don't be deceived by the essentially bare stage facing you at the start Bob Fosse;s Dancin', a revival at the Music Box of Fosse's 1978 multi-Tony-winn…
By: Isa Goldberg
March 31, 2023: A twist of dramatic form, as we know it, creates the matrix to Keith Bunin's new play, "The Coast Starlight" at Lincoln Center Theater at The Mitzi E. Newh…
John Lloyd Young, the original Tony winning star of Jersey Boys, returns to Café Carlyle March 28 through April 1.Â
March 28, 2023:Â John Lloyd Young, the Tony and Grammy Award-winni…
Marilyn Maye Highlights The New York Pops
By: Alix Cohen
Much 28, 2023: To a multitude of friends, fans, and fellow artists, Marilyn Maye is a lighthouse, a lodestar, The Little Prince'…
Devices and Gimmicks
March 27, 2023: A device is a plan or a method with a particular aim. A gimmick is a trick intended to attract attention, business or publicity. Sometimes it's hard to…
By: Maryann Lopinto
March 28, 2023: On Sunday, March 26th the Encompass Opera Company presented its 19th musical Salute at the National Arts Gramercy Park South with a reception, dinner an…
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 25, 2023: On July 11, 1733, forty-two Jewish men and women disembarked in Savannah, Georgia, soon after James Edward Oglethorpe had arrived with Georgia's origi…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 24, 2023: Parade, the topically relevant 1998 musical now being smashingly revived on Broadway, tells the truth-based story of Leo Frank (Ben Platt, Dear Evan Ha…
By: David Sheward
March 24, 2023: It's the casual, seemingly unobserved movements that makes the spectacular revival of Bob Fosse's 1978 revue Dancin' so special. Yes, there are thrillin…
Acclaimed comedian Judy Gold opened her new solo show, Yes, I Can Say That!, directed by BD Wong at 59E59 Theaters.
March 22, 2023: Acclaimed comedian Judy Gold opened her solo showÂ…
By: Alix Cohen
March 22, 2023: The Hunting Gun, a poem written by the prologue narrator, was derided when published as too sensitive for a gun magazine. Months later, its author received …
By: Maryann Lopinto
March 23, 2023: Karen Mason returned to Birdland on Monday recreating her "ALL THAT JAZZ" the songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb which she debuted there almost a year ag…
By: Isa Goldberg
March 21, 2023: Emily Feldman's new play, "The Best We Could " (a family tragedy), at The Manhattan Theatre Club, while contemporary in style, harkens back to classical G…
Fantastic finds from Broadway Babe this week include Carol Burnett, Lena Horne, Angie Dickinson & Burt Bacharach, and new documentary on The Music Man's Meredith Wilson.
March 19, 2023:…
By: David Sheward
March 18, 2023: Perhaps the most powerful moment in Parade, the stunning revival of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's 1998 musical about the infamous Leo Frank case, …
Park West Gallery Launches First Annual "Painted in New York" Artist Competition.
March 19, 2023: Park West Fine Art Museum & Gallery announced their first annual "Painted in New York" …
