2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
By: David Sheward
December 19, 2022: Rebecca Nurse is a minor character in The Crucible, Arthur Miller's harrowing dramatization of the witch-hunt hysteria which gripped colonial America. …
Maverick theatre group, Ruth Stage, announced the return engagement of their hit Cat On A Hot Tin Roof with TV star Courtney Henggler making her NYC stage debut as "Maggie the Cat" in the Wi…
By: Alix Cohen
December 17, 2022: Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) spent seven decades as figurehead at the prow of the New York Times Arts and Leisure section. Drawings were delivered wra…
Michael Urie Co-stars in Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company's Revival of Talene Monohon's Jane Anger …
By: Ellis Nassour
December 16, 2022: Are you ready for a bloody good time? …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 16, 2022: In an afterword appended to her script for Becky Nurse of Salem, playwright Sarah Ruhl (In the Next Room, or the vibrator play), whose unsatisfying…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 14, 2022: Regardless of what Rodgers and Hammerstein may have said, there has always been something like a dame, namely, men who dress as dames. And from The…
Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage and a Heartfelt Tell-All Memoir - Part Two
By: Ellis Nassour     Â
December 14, 2022 "Â Tovah Feldshuh, the four-…
CBS will present "THE 76th ANNUAL TONY AWARDS®" airing Sunday, June 11, 2023, from a New Location, the United Palace in New York City. The TONYS will celebrate 76 years of the best …
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 12, 2022: As it has on five earlier occasions since 2002, the Irish Repertory Theatre has retained its venerable name despite leaping over the Irish Sea to W…
Josephine Beavers brings her cool jazz to 54 Below.
By: Patrick Christiano
December 7, 2022: Josephine Beavers wowed the audience on Tuesday, the opening night of a two-night engagement a…
Broadway Babe: West Side Story, Toast of the Town, Johnny Mathis and more.
December 9, 2022:Â Randie Levine-Miller has unearthed some wonderful nostalgic finds including film clips from …
Tovah Feldshuh: Celebrating 50 Plus Years Onstage
By: Ellis Nassour
December 8, 20222: The four-time Tony and two-time Emmy nominee Tovah Feldshuh has done just about all there's to do in…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
December 5, 2022". As Kermit the Frog often reminded us, it's not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some Black American playwrights, espe…
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 1, 2022: Hoagland Howard Carmichael, more famously known as Hoagy, was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s. Today he is remembe…
Edited by David Leopold with almost 300 Hirschfeld drawings the new book covers nearly 50 years of the American Theater in one volume.
The American Theatre As Seen By Al Hirschfeld
By: Pau…
"Al had one of the only unique styles in the history of art." Caricaturist David Levine
By: Alix Cohen
December 1, 2022: For a lover of the stage, paging through a book of Al Hirschfeld…
CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 30, 2022: If you go to Show-Score.com, an online site for theatre reviews, you'll find that, within the past few years al…
By: Alix Cohen
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Make Merry for the Holidaze.
November 30, 2022: The world's foremost, all-male comic ballet company delighting the savvy and novi…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 23, 2022: & Juliet, a raucous jukebox musical that even has a jukebox as a prominent stage property, belongs as well to a genre with a much longer tradit…
Unique finds from Broadway Babe this week include Tony winner, Glynis Johns, from 1973, Shirley Jones, Marlo & Phil, and a tribute to Kander & Ebb.
November 26, 2022:Â Broadway B…
By: Paulanne Simmons
November 23, 2022: On the heels of the international success of Six, comes another woke Elizabethan musical from the West End, & Juliet, directed by Luke Sh…
Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night: A New Musical Comedy premiers on BroadwayHD December 1, just in time for the Holidays.
November 22, 2022: Broadway HD, the premiere streaming service fo…
By: Paulanne Simmons
November 21, 2022: In his newest solo show, The Old Man and The Pool, Mike Birbiglia looks to one of the most unlikely subjects for the source of humor: his ow…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 21,2022: In 1918, when he was a mere stripling of 18, Noël Coward (1899-1973), budding British playwright/ performer/song writer, and so forth, wrote The…
A new solo show, Cheese Fries & Froot Loops, written and performed by Chris Fuller will play the Triad Theater on Tuesday, November 29th @ 7pm.
November 22, 2022: Â Step Forward Ente…
