2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
Musical revue fails to shine despite stellar Hammerstein songs.
By:Â Patrick Christiano
April 14, 2019:Â Sincerely, Oscar is billed as a new musical, conceived and written by Do…
6th Annual "TOMATOES GOT TALENT" Contest Takes Center Stage at the TRIAD.
On April 15, 2019, 12 uniquely-talented women have been hand-picked to compete in the 6th Annual "Tomatoes Got Ta…
By: Paulanne Simmons
April 13, 2019: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Oklahoma! was based on Lynn Riggs' forgotten and largely forgettable Green Grow the Lilacs. The show's premiere at…
By: David Sheward
April 10, 2019: Some actors are larger than life, but not life-like. We admire their craft rather than identify with the characters they are portraying and the emotions…
"Last Flight to Senegal"
By: Samuel L. Leiter
April 8, 2019: As Kermit the Frog reminded us, it's not easy being a color different from that of the dominant culture. Some black Ameri…
Drama Desk winner Michael Urie will host the 64th Annual Drama Desk Awards
April 8, 2019: The 64th Annual Drama Desk Award will be presented Sunday, June 2 at The Town Hall in New York C…
New York premiere of I Carry Your Heat by Georgette Kelly at 59E59 Theaters
April 4, 2019:Â 59E59 Theaters is thrilled to present the New York premiere of I Carry Your Heart, a moving …
By: Iris Wiener
April 5, 2019: Though he had been performing and tap dancing since he was 5 years old, it was working on a high school production of Me and My Girl that changed the path…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: If "A Midsummer Night's Dream in a post-apocalyptic future, fleeing from zombies" doesn't sound like your idea of a great show, Be More Chill, may feel ch…
By: David Sheward
April 3, 2019: Three disparate visions of America, two focusing on capitalism and one on the constitution, raise a multitude of questions about where we've been and whe…
By: Isa Goldberg
April 4, 2019: A most memorable of Broadway Valentines, Kiss Me Kate, is getting a rousing revival at Studio 54, with Kelli O'Hara (Lilli Vanessi) and Will Chase (Fred …
Lyrics & Lyricists celebrated legendary composer Stephen Sondheim in "Wordplay" at the 92Y's renowned series on 3/30-4-1/19.
By: Linda Amiel Burns
April 2, 2019: In 1971 Stephen …
Benefit and Silent Auction Tuesday, April 2nd
April 1, 2019: The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling with ACA Galleries is hosting The Anyone Can Fly Benefit and Silent A…
Bruce High Quality Foundation: The End of Western Art, March 29 through May 24, 2019
March 30, 2019: An exhibition by Bruce High Quality foundation opened at ACA Galleries, 520 West 29th…
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: If Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with its misogynistic undertones, is sometimes hard to swallow. Cole Porter, and Samuel and Bella Spewack's …
By: Paulanne Simmons
March 31, 2019: Superhero has a book by John Logan who won a Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award for his play Red, and is credited with man…
Life Is Filled with (Wonderful) Surprises
April 1, 2019: Nine years ago I was holding auditions for a staged reading of my musical In the Schoolyard at the Dramatist Guild. Most of the p…
"They're Gonna Make You Love Them (Oh, Yes, They Will)"
By: Samuel L. Leiter
March 29, 2019: There a lot of words in the full title of this latest jukebox musical but the essence of t…
Brian d'Arcy James Leads New American Cast of The Ferryman
By: Ellis Nassour
Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman is one of the most acclaimed plays of this or any season. In its London West…
By: David Sheward
March 26, 2019: John Guare takes us on a wild romp through personal ups and downs, toxic pop culture, murder mystery tropes, literary and cinema allusions in his off-ki…
Thomas Bradshaw's provocative melodrama closes out The Flea's Color Brave Season.
March 24: 2019:Â The Flea's Artistic Director, Niegel Smith, has helmed a disturbing new production of…
Town Hall Presents Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year 1943/1951 on March 25
By: Ellis Nassour
March 22, 2019: Town Hall presents Scott Siegel's Broadway by the Year, now in its 19…
By: Isa Goldberg
March 21, 2019: Definitely a Hallmark play, The Cake lives fashionably in that zone where people-friendly, shallow social acknowledgements thrive.
