2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
B'way Update: Little Prince, Cancellations, MacBeth and Strange Loop
By: David Sheward
December 20, 2021: While Broadway is in turmoil over multiple performance cancellations and uncerta…
Stephen Schwartz's Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook comes to BroadwayHD on December 22.
December 20, 2021: BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, announce…
By: David Sheward
December 18, 2021: The leading women of two new musical productions are facing momentous birthdays. Bobbi, the protagonist of a gender-reversed revival of Company, Step…
World Premiere of John and Jen, staring Rachel Tucker, to stream exclusively on BroadwayHD.
December 18, 2021:Â BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, brought a b…
By: Alix Cohen
December 16, 2021: Ari Axelrod wears his heart on his sleeve. He's also a showman. That these two qualities don't contradict one another is a testament to the power of aut…
By: David Sheward
December 11, 2021: The musical version of Mrs. Doubtfire had several strikes against it before the show even got to bat. First, there is the iconic performance of Robin …
Steven Spielberg's Long-awaited Film Adaptation of West Side Story Finally Arrives.
By: Ellis Nassour
December 9, 2021: As we waited for the COVID-19-delayed adaptation of Steven Spielbe…
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 13, 2021: Mrs. Doubtfire, the New Musical that opened Dec. 5 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, has something for everyone. There's rap for the younger set, ol…
"Merry Madoo and ARF, Too!"
December 9 2021: The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, Inc. (ARF) and Madoo Conservancy will be hosting their joint community-wide holiday celebration, "Merry…
Jamie deRoy & Friends returns to Birdland with Donna McKechnie, Stephen Flaherty and more.
December 7, 2021: Jamie deRoy & Friends is back at Birdland, 344 West 44th Street, …
By: Paulanne Simmons
December 6, 2021: The Visitor, The Public Theater's new musical by Kwame Kwei-Armah (book), Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics) and Tom Kitt (music), based on Thomas McCar…
By: David Sheward
December 4, 2021: Though it's called Clyde's and a photo of a devilishly grinning Uzo Aduba (Emmy winner for Orange Is the New Black) in the title role is on the Playbi…
Cheek To Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood opens at The York at Theatre at St. Jean's on 76th Street.
December 3, 2021:Â Â Cheek To Cheek: Irving Berlin in Hollywood, an insigh…
Classic movie musicals including The Phantom of the Opera & The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and more come to BroadwayHD in December.
December 4, 2021:Â Tis the…
By: David Sheward
November 28, 2021: Though it takes place five years ago on the brink of the incoming Trump administration, few plays are as of the present moment as Erika Dickerson-Desp…
By: David Sheward
November 27, 2021: On the Friday after Thanksgiving, my husband and I were driving back from Philadelphia after a visit to my mother. For some unknown reason, I got …
GRACE HARITGAN & LARRY RIVERS:Â The Poetry of Painting on view through January 29, 2022.
November 27, 2021: ACA Galleries, 529 West 20th Street, in the Gallery District announced …
By: Alix Cohen
November 25, 2021: Ben Jonson wrote The Alchemist in 1610 when London theaters were closed for two years during the plague. Sound familiar? Samuel Coleridge called it…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 24, 2021: When Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind was produced at Off Broadway's Greenwich Mews Theatre in November 1955, it received a brief but positi…
By: Samuel L. Leiter
November 22, 2021: Before I say another word, let me spill out my gut reaction to the revival of Man of La Mancha that just opened at Plaza Broadway Long Island's the…
By:Â Isa GoldbergÂ
November 21, 2021: Reviving "Morning's at Seven", Paul Osborn's old chestnut of a comedy, is the stuff we reserve for Olympians, such as this impressive cast from …
Black Matter, Giles Terea's powerful song cycle, now available on BroadwayHD.
November 20, 2021:Â Inspired by the unrest of 2020, Olivier Award winning star of the West End production…
By: David Sheward
November 19, 2021: Revivals and adaptations are proving startlingly relevant on and Off-Broadway. Alice Childress's Trouble in Mind premiered Off-Broadway in 1955. The p…
By: Isa Goldberg
November 18, 2021: Stealthy, indeed, is a quality that distinguishes playwright Simon Stephens, whose latest work, "Morning Sun", is as unusual in its exploration of form…
By: David Sheward
November 16, 2021: The previously announced revival of Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has set definite dates and…
