2,405 stories by "Barry Gordin"
="p2">Phoebe Legere @ Dixon Place
The incomparable Phoebe Legere is Joe Carstairs in the World Premiere of SPEED QUEEN, a zany musical mashup by the Queen of performance art.
By: Patrick…
Chita Rivera in a unique solo concert
The incomparable Broadway icon and two-time Tony Award winner revisits moments from her legendary career, showcasing the artistry and history that…
By: Paulanne Simmons
If America has its own Chekhov, it would have to be A. R. Gurney. As Chekhov, in his short career as a playwright (he died of tuberculosis at 44), illuminated and eluci…
GOLDSTEIN, a new musical about family with music and lyrics by Michael Roberts and a book by Charlie Schulman will open Off Broadway on  Thursday, April 5th at the Actors Temple Theatre (…
Musical tale of twin sisters born in Transylvania based on the novel, Wicked Clone or how to deal with the evil.
March 8, 2018:Â The musical, Wicked Clone, created and performed by the I…
By: Isa Goldberg
Religious persecution, the dysfunctional family, assimilation, and loss of identity ripple down, like the domino effect, in An Ordinary Muslim, at The New York Theate…
When The Fantasticks was on its way to becoming a solid Off Broadway hit, composers Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt were dangled a carrot of another kind: Broadway. N. Richard Nash wanted…
By: Paulanne Simmons
It's taken fifteen years, but Jerry Springer - the Opera has finally arrived in New York City. With music and lyrics by Richard Thomas, and book and additional lyrics b…
Remembering Harvey Schmidt: Composer of The Fantasticks
By: Ellis Nassour
Harvey Schmidt of the composing team Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt died Wednesday at his longtime home in Tomball, …
By: Ellis Nassour
Remembering Harvey Schmidt " and Tom Jones, who recently turned 90:
Part Two
The Best of 2017 Vie for the Gold at the Very Diverse 90th Academy Awards Telecast Sunday on ABC
By: Ellis Nassour
The 90th Academy Awards will telecast live by ABC from L.A.'s Dol…
Theater for the New City's 15th Annual bash honors activist & actress Vinie Burrows
 February 27, 2018: A Gala tribute at The Players Club in New York City honored Vinie Burrows …
The Shape of Water leads the pack with 13 nominations, Dunkirk follows with eight nods, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri has seven.Â
2017 Nomination Highlight…
By: Paulanne Simmons
If Alfred Hitchcock had been Irish, and if he'd possessed a rascally sense of humor, he might have produced Hangmen. In the event, the play, now onstage at Atlantic The…
Satirical musical spoof of 90's TV show with arias and dancing reflects the chaos of our times.
By: Patrick Christiano
February 23, 2018:Â With a reality TV star firmly ensconced in t…
By: Isa Goldberg
Like "The Play that Goes Wrong," "Stiff," playing at TBG Theatre (312 West 36th St), is a comedy, about a murder mystery that runs amok. And yes, the set (Aaron Porter, s…
Lea Salonga: Celebrating 40 Years Onstage " from Li'l Orphan Annie, Vietnamese War Orphan, Disney Princess, and Now Love Goddess
By: Ellis Nassour
Olivier and Tony Award winner, "Disne…
By: Isa Goldberg
"Radiate my vagina! Do you know who I am?", Eve Ensler demands of medical practitioners at the Mayo Clinic. After all, The Vagina Monologues, Ensler's seminal work, has bee…
By: Paulanne Simmons
At the opening of her new cabaret show, Back When We Were Young," on February 17, Meg Flather told the audience, "I love songs that tell stories, and I love stories tha…
By: Isa Goldberg
For his direction of Urinetown The Musical, director John Rando garnered his first Tony Award. With Jerry Springer the Opera, produced by The New Group at the Signature T…
A quirky tale about a smooth-talking Tyrannosaur is an homage to late night creature films.
February 15, 2018: The Dreamscape Theater is presenting the NYC premiere of PETE REX , a quirky …
World Premier of Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns by OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow
February 13, 2018: OBIE Award winner Ellen Maddow's new musical piece, Fusifor…
By: David Sheward
Martin McDonagh takes the phrase "gallows humor" a bit too literally in his new play Hangmen now at the Atlantic Theater Company after hit London runs at the Royal Court…
Broadway Bound - Not!
Every theater professional wants to be Broadway bound. But is Broadway the best place for every show? The record shows the answer to this question is often no.
By: David Sheward
Two short, explosive new Off-Broadway works depict wars of race and gender with women's bodies as the battlefield. Both are intense and earnest, challenging theatergoers' …
